Somewhat OffTopic, but since many use it; MySpace PWNED

This is a public service announcement... for details:

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/10/27/myspace_accounts_compromised_by_phishers.html

IN SHORT: DO NOT LOG INTO MYSPACE!

Regards,

-Flip

Gah thats just lovely, alot of people at the station use Myspace, I will be sure to pass it on.

Thanks Flipper

Any time. It's not exactly on topic, but since MySpace is so far reaching (I know of a ton of SLB communities that use it), I figured it was worth passing on.

From the Netcraft statement:

"Netcraft has notified MySpace of the issue, although it currently remains live. Because the fraudulent login page is hosted on MySpace's own servers and does not exhibit any signs of external content, such as cross-site scripting (XSS) or open redirects, it is convincing and even security-conscious users are at risk of becoming victims. The attack is launched from a profile page, where the username is login_home_index_html, and uses specially-crafted HTML in order to hide the genuine MySpace content from the page and instead display its own login form."

This kind of thing makes you appreciate LL's response a few weeks ago... MySpace is a much bigger outfit, yet no action whatsoever.

Regards,

-Flip