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Re: MySpace Accounts Compromised by Phishers
From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:52:06 -0400
On 10/27/06, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:15:58 EDT, Dude VanWinkle said: > On 10/27/06, Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote: > > Good question. :-) > > > > a better question is why the hell would you jack a myspace page? > > is there any way to make money off it? What are the incentives? You jack a page, now you have a starting point to feed IE exploits at all the victim's friends when they visit. You get lucky and nail somebody with 2,349 "friends", that's a lot of leverage. Especially if part of the thing you shoot them is something to whack *their* Myspace page and go viral. High hit rates by people who are likely not security/privacy conscious. What's not to like about it if you're a black hat trying to monetize it? :)
You have a dirty mind my friend! Glad you are on the light side of the force :-) _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- MySpace Accounts Compromised by Phishers Fergie (Oct 27)
- Re: MySpace Accounts Compromised by Phishers Ron Bowes (Oct 27)
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- Re: MySpace Accounts Compromised by Phishers Fergie (Oct 27)
- Re: MySpace Accounts Compromised by Phishers Dude VanWinkle (Oct 27)
- Re: MySpace Accounts Compromised by Phishers Ron Bowes (Oct 27)
- Re: MySpace Accounts Compromised by Phishers Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 27)
- Re: MySpace Accounts Compromised by Phishers Dude VanWinkle (Oct 27)
- Re: MySpace Accounts Compromised by Phishers Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 27)
- Re: MySpace Accounts Compromised by Phishers Dude VanWinkle (Oct 27)
- Re: MySpace Accounts Compromised by Phishers Brian Porter (Oct 27)
- Re: MySpace Accounts Compromised by Phishers Blue Boar (Oct 27)