Comments | hirez: Attention MySpaccers

hirez

Attention MySpaccers

Jan 15, 2007 16:30

http://www.digg.com/security/Change_your_Myspace_passwords_nowRead more... )

pwnage, malarkey

Comments 15

mr_tom January 15 2007, 16:32:39 UTC

Looks slashdotted to me. Cached anywhere?

hirez January 15 2007, 16:41:23 UTC

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2007-01/0270.html

mr_tom January 15 2007, 16:45:15 UTC

Accident!

mr_tom January 15 2007, 16:48:59 UTC

Looks like a SQL injection that's then been John'd.

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miss_soap January 15 2007, 16:36:00 UTC

Tis 404'd/

hirez January 15 2007, 16:42:16 UTC

See above. I have a local one, but it's 1.8Mb

quercus January 15 2007, 16:54:07 UTC

that would have made a cracking alt-history nov.

I'd just logged in especially to post a prod to someone suggesting that they ought to write such a thing. Guess who....

(and how was the man Hitchcock?)

hirez January 15 2007, 17:45:47 UTC

Beats me. Were I thinking of such a thing, I'd start with JMK getting the wonga out of the septics on his terms instead of having to wait for the Marshall Plan.

(Rather fine. Venus 3 stuff seemed a bit rockist, but Morris Windsor was pulled from the audience to help out on a couple of classics. Glad I brung the earplugs.)

jarkman January 15 2007, 17:36:57 UTC

In a random vein, you may enjoy this tale of a winter stroll:

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72465-0.html?tw=wn_technology_1

kathbad January 15 2007, 17:53:20 UTC

Nowt there!

What was there?

hirez January 15 2007, 19:48:40 UTC

Large list of email address:password pairs, allegedly culled from a Myspace phishing expedition. The enterprising miscreant would test those against the relevant email provider, Paypal, Amazon et al. On the off-chance that phurther phun could be had.

I don't do Myspac meself, but some on my FL do and it seemed appropriate to warn them.