MySpace Users Big Targets for ID Thieves

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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No new news here, although this article comes on the same day that
yet another exploit on MySpace has been divulged:

 http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20061224/myspace-0-day-again-again/

Via MSNBC (AP).

[snip]

MySpace bills itself as a "place for friends." Increasingly, it is also a
place for unfriendly attacks from digital miscreants on the prowl, luring
users to sexually explicit Web sites, clogging mailboxes with spam messages
and playing on the trust users have when speaking to "friends" to obtain
passwords that could lead to identity theft.

Managing the risks that come with rapid growth is an enormous challenge for
MySpace, now part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. media conglomerate. The
site can't afford to drive away users, who might defect to one of a growing
number of alternative sites, or advertisers, who pay top dollar to reach
the growing MySpace audience.

[snip]

More:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16352839/

Merry Christmas,

- - ferg

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