![]() ![]() To begin, we need to touch on some basics. For now, we’re going to stick to the basics – proper passwords and SQL Injection. had used a technique known as cross-site scripting (XSS) to pull off his hack. It would top the 1 million mark just before Myspace took their servers offline to figure out what was going on. As the evening closed in, his friends count had reached 919,664. This angered many people, who deleted him from their page, only to get reinfected moments later when they visited another (infected) page. And like any good hacker worth his weight in floppy drives, his sense of humor had him program the script to also add his name to each visitor’s Heroes List. By 1:30PM that day, he had over 6,000 friends request. got worried and sent an anonymous email to the webmaster warning of the worm. He woke up the next morning with 200 friends requests. He then programmed the script to copy itself onto the visitor’s page. It took just over a week to develop a script that would force people who visited his page to add him as a friend. And this is where things get interesting. ![]() ![]() After hoodwinking the Myspace site with some simple hacks, he realized he could do just about anything he wanted to with it. ![]() It didn’t take long to figure out how to trick the site to let him upload more images and change his relationship status to a customized “in a hot relationship”. These limitations did not sit well with, a 19 year old hacker out of Los Angeles. You could only upload up to 12 images and the Relationship Status drop-down menu only had a few options to choose from. The coding part was fun! But not everything was changeable with code. Most of us, c’mon…admit it….had a Myspace page. It was unique in that it let users use HTML code to customize their Myspace page. With millions of users, the site was the most popular social networking site in the world. As the year of 2005 was drawing to a close, a website known as Myspace was basking in popularity. ![]()
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