RE: myspace hack

["Griffiths, Ian" <Ian.Griffiths () liv-coll ac uk>]

This is not what I gathered from the written account, he's penned it as
some sort of multi-layered, nested approach to having friends.  I'll be
far less impressed if it transpires that its just a regular loop in any
old scripting language with a wget in the middle....

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Varenhorst [mailto:varenc () MIT EDU] 
Sent: 13 October 2005 14:31
To: Akash
Cc: webappsec () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: myspace hack


This isn't hacking at all. (at least not what I'd call it)
This is writing a script to go through myspace IDs (which happen to be
squential) issuing friend requests to every one of them.  To prevent
this, now myspace limits friend requests to a certain number per day.
Hope that covers it!

-Chris

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Akash wrote:

> Does anyone has more technical details about how 1 million accounts
got hacked in about 24 hours.

This is the supposed confession of the hacker http://fast.info/myspace/

I currently studying for CEH and just finished reading about XSS. So
this is of special interest.

regards

akash