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News Social networking portal MySpace is becoming a major target for cyber criminals, with credit card fraud, phishing attacks and spyware all growing concerns for users of the site. Mark Sunner, CTO of MessageLabs, told... [27 Jul 2006]
MySpace worm goes phishing
News A malicious video on MySpace.com pages changes people's profiles when played, embedding itself and adding links to fraudulent websites, experts have warned. The video is a rigged QuickTime file that exploits a... [05 Dec 2006]
MySpace to Apple: Fix QuickTime fast
News MySpace.com wants Apple to update its QuickTime media player software so it can't be used in attacks on the social-networking site. The request comes after a worm in the form of a rigged QuickTime movie crawled onto... [06 Dec 2006]
MySpace hit with Universal copyright lawsuit
News Universal Music Group (UMG) has sued MySpace.com, claiming the social-networking site is infringing on the copyrights of thousands of songs and videos. Universal, owned by French media conglomerate Vivendi, claims... [20 Nov 2006]
MySpace top spot for snapperazzi
News MySpace is the most popular website for Brits to post photos and videos captured on their mobiles, research reveals. More than one-fifth of Britons who are capturing content via their mobiles and putting it online are... [16 Jan 2007]
MySpace and Skype to get chatty
News MySpace and Skype are set to announce a tie-in that will see the eBay-owned telephony client providing voice chat services for the News Corp-owned social network's instant messaging client, MySpaceIM. [17 Oct 2007]
MySpace joins race for the White House
News MySpace.com plans to hold a virtual US presidential election. The mock election, to be held 1 and 2 January, will be open to all MySpace users who reside in the US, regardless of voting eligibility in... [04 Apr 2007]
MySpace confirms purchase of Facebook-friend iLike
News MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta has confirmed in a conference call on Wednesday that the News Corp-owned social network has "entered into an agreement to acquire iLike".iLike's co-founders will remain at the company and stay... [20 Aug 2009]
MySpace Uses SQL Server Service Broker to Protect Integrity of 1 Petabyte of Data
White Paper Since its launch in 2003, the social networking site MySpace has become a cultural phenomenon. When MySpace needed a message queuing and delivery solution to help ensure data changes were correctly and... [25 Jul 2009]
MySpace vs Facebook: The race is on...
News MySpace attracts the largest number of social network users in the UK but Facebook is catching up fast. According to figures from digital research group ComScore, MySpace had 10.76 million unique UK... [01 Aug 2007]
MySpace Mexico to launch in weeks
News MySpace.com has confirmed rumours it will be launching a Spanish-language version of the popular social-networking service for Mexican users. Word of "MySpace Mexico" began to spread on Tuesday when... [25 Jan 2007]
Facebook, MySpace not on Windows Live friends list
News Facebook and MySpace are not on there right now," Hall said. Microsoft is announcing a series of changes to its Windows Live services aimed to give more of a social-networking flavour to the company's communications... [13 Nov 2008]
How MySpace attacks can be tailored to individuals
Photo Tools such as Friend Requester enable users to target automated messages to MySpace members and can easily be downloaded online. Users select what kind of MySpace members they want to target and break... [27 Jul 2006]
Bertelsmann eyes a 'MySpace' for silver surfers
News Rupert Murdoch's News Corp last year earmarked $1.5bn for acquisitions in this field and recently bought teenage internet hotspot MySpace.com, an online music and dating community with about 60 million members. [04 Apr 2006]
Spam king slapped with MySpace suit
News MySpace.com has filed suit against Sanford Wallace, seeking to bar the "spam king" and his affiliated companies from the social-networking site. In the suit, filed last week in US District Court for the Central District... [28 Mar 2007]
