MySpace, Bebo, Friendster Faces US Ban

September 24th, 2007 My public profiles on 9 popular social networking sites: LinkedIn - I have started adding my friends to this. Found some old IITians from this network.

May 14th, 2009 This is an exclusive stuff for your MySpace or friendster users. Frankly you are there to make friends.

September 4th, 2006 It is surprising to see MySpace still allows simple hacks like this. You can view any user's private videos on MySpace with this simple trick.

January 22nd, 2004 Google decided to jump into the social networking bandwagon with the launching of Orkut. Social networking can have a big impact on search engine results as the user's home pages on social networking sites such as Ryze & Friendster are closely connected to each other.

July 11th, 2007 MySpace has submitted another list of sex offenders to authorities. In response to a subpoena by New Jersey Attorney General, MySpace handed over information on sex offenders that joined since May 21st.

June 20th, 2007 Attorney General Jim Hood said his office is reviewing 162 identifiable records of registered Missisippi sex offenders provided by MySpace. "MySpace has assured us that the sex offenders they reported to us have been removed from the site," said Hood.

May 9th, 2007 I get tons of requests to hack MySpace so someone can spy on their wife / husband / girlfriends / spouse / daughter. The requests are varied but the overall theme is same.

March 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The UK government could soon start monitoring and saving web-profiles of millions of British social networking site users as part of its security upgradation endeavor. "Social networking sites, such as MySpace or Bebo, are not covered by the directive.

March 27th, 2009 A teenager from New Jersey has been arrested after she uploaded 30 nude photos of herself to her MySpace page, and is now facing child pornography charges. The 14-year-old girl had posted the pictures to a social networking site "because she wanted her boyfriend to see them," a police spokesman revealed.

March 5th, 2009 Myspace has this annoying feature where your friends can see the last time you logged into your account. This may seem a trivial issue but suppose you have come to your account specifically for someone and don't want to entertain all your friends.

September 26th, 2006 Ever since I had written a post on how Samy hacked MySpace, I have been inundated with comments asking me how to hack MySpace. It is obvious that the people asking didn't realize that the actual purpose of the article was not to help hacking MySpace, but to discuss about an intelligent exploit after it was patched.

February 18th, 2009 With craze for iPhone apps soaring up, Yahoo couldn't wait to get into the groove. It's up with a beta version mobile app for iPhone and other smartphones.

June 3rd, 2008 How MySpace Accounts Get Hacked This video shows how MySpace accounts gets hacked. The modus operandi is simple: 1.

November 30th, 2007 In MySpace on average (based on sample size of 2071208 images) 15 photos are uploaded per user. Considering only users who have at least one or more photos uploaded, they have on average uploaded a staggering 32 photos.

October 18th, 2005 Update: You may also want to look at: MySpace Hack: How To View Any Users Private Videos. Recently Samy [samy at namb dot la] released a worm ["Samy worm" or "JS.Spacehero worm"] in MySpace, popular social networking platform like Friendster, which caused him to be added as hero to millions of MySpace users ("but most of all, samy is my hero.") as well as add him as their friend, all without their explicit permission.