MySpace Moves To Protect Teenagers

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.

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 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.

April 11th, 2009 In the recent scene, MySpace may not be having a smooth sail. The top executives of MySpace are fleeing and the chief rival Facebook is signing millions of more users gladly.

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.

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.

June 20th, 2006 A 14-year-old Travis County girl who said she was sexually assaulted by a man she met on MySpace.com sued the MySpace for $30 million, claiming that it fails to protect minors from adult sexual predators. The lawsuit claims that the Web site does not require users to verify their age and calls the security measures aimed at preventing strangers from contacting users younger than 16 "utterly ineffective." What do they expect MySpace to do? Ask every registrants to provide photocopy of age or driver's license? At the core I think the primary responsibility of managing their children is on the parents.

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.

July 20th, 2006 The Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a report that a 14-year-old Oostburg girl was solicited to be part of a “menage a trois” on the social networking Web site MySpace.com, according to Capt. Dave Adams. The girl’s father called the sheriff’s department Wednesday night after her mother communicated with several of the girl’s friends using her MySpace account and discovering language that was “sexual in nature,” Adams said.

August 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace may drive kids to commit suicide, warns the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales. Archbishop Vincent Nichols says that the "transient relationships" such sites are making teenagers to develop leave them unable to cope when their social networks collapse.

June 16th, 2009 MySpace to cut 30 percent of work forceLOS ANGELES — MySpace is cutting nearly 30 percent of its work force in a move the News Corp.-owned online hangout says will make it more efficient. The cuts amount to about 420 people, bringing the total number of MySpace's U.S.

February 2nd, 2008 I had previously stated clearly that I will not help anyone to hack MySpace, even if I did know how to. Guess how can you incite me? Here is a very interesting email I received through the contact form which does that admirably: emily waters wrote: well you answered my question you said you dont help people hack into someones elses myspace but i really think you dont know how for i have read it is difficult.

October 5th, 2009 MySpace names Rosenbaum as its first finance chiefNEW YORK — The social networking hub MySpace says it has named Mark Rosenbaum as its first chief financial officer. News Corp.-owned MySpace said Monday that Rosenbaum will report to CEO Owen Van Natta, who replaced co-founder Chris DeWolfe in the company's top post in April.