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September 5th, 2006

Another Spyware Company uses “MySpace”

WhenU “Partner” Pushes “Myspace” Videos in P2P Land:
First there was Zango, now there’s WhenU. WhenU does things a little different though. What they do is when you’re on a P2P network and download a movie called MySpace then try to play the movie it injects all sorts of nastiness into your poor unsuspecting computer. Read […]

By Trench -- 2 comments

August 16th, 2006

Mark Branciforte

Yesterday I talked about the two Long Island hackers Edward Woltin and Mark Branciforte. At that time I was unable to find Branciforte’s MySpace. That was until Mr. A found Branciforte’s MySpace as did reader kello.
What’s up with all the white suburban wanna-be ganstas?
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August 16th, 2006

Two MySpace hackers arrested

Two teens arrested in MySpace hack:
Two Setauket teens have been arrested for hacking into an acquaintance’s MySpace account and posting sexually derogatory images and comments on her Web page, Suffolk police said Tuesday.
Edward Woltin, 19, and Mark Branciforte, 18, allegedly sent an 18-year-old girl a bogus e-mail in June saying there was another MySpace user […]

By Trench -- 5 comments

August 7th, 2006

Zango still at it

Let’s have a Myspace Zango Party!:
Vital Security says that spyware company Zango is still up to its same old tricks on MySpace…
There shines a shiny demon…in the middle….of a Myspace page…
…and his name is Colin Farrell! As you can see, he’s lolling in his little cotton socks and making a humorous hand gesture on some […]

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August 1st, 2006

Social Networking at Black Hat ‘06

Black Hat and Defcon 2006: Security Fix Heads to Vegas:
Security Fix is headed to Las Vegas for the better part of the next week to cover two back-to-back hacker conferences. The first is Black Hat USA 2006, which runs Wednesday and Thursday and caters to security professionals and researchers whose bosses can afford to foot […]

By Trench -- 1 comment

July 10th, 2006

Avoid Zango

Teenagers used to push Zango on Myspace?:
A computer security blog recently found spyware being distributed therough the spyware company’s MySpace in a rather scummy way…
Well, I was rattling around Myspace the other day, and had the sudden urge to start searching for Adware companies. Stranger things have happened at sea, right? Direct Revenue….nope. Ysbweb….nope. Media-Motor, […]

By Trench -- 3 comments