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According to Information Week MySpace shut down hundreds of profiles over the weekend that were infected by a worm that directed victims to a phishing site.
People logged into MySpace could have their profiles infected by simply visiting an infected profile. The malicious code was able to find visitors’ profiles through cookies in the victims’ browsers, said Dan Hubbard, VP for security research at Websense. Besides changing links, the worm also embedded the infected video in victims’ profiles.
Personally, I am not surprised. Hackers are always trying to take down the biggest sites. According to HitWise, I believe MySpace was the top site on the internet last month.
Read the full story here: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196601356&subSection=Breaking+News
