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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 silicon.com: "MySpace appears to... [27 Jul 2006]
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 the government-run election in November 2008. [04 Apr 2007]
MySpace gets on board OpenID
News News Corp's MySpace social network will join the OpenID alliance to begin letting its users take their online identity to other sites and social networks without having to register again. The move comes after the network decided in May to let its... [23 Jul 2008]
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 visitors in June 2007 and Facebook attracted... [01 Aug 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 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 Myspace has looked the other way... [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 using MySpace to share their... [16 Jan 2007]
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 MySpace vulnerability and support for... [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 MySpace.com over the weekend... [06 Dec 2006]
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 information about the site leaked to... [25 Jan 2007]
Google, Yahoo! and MySpace announce OpenSocial Foundation
News and News Corp's MySpace.com have announced they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a not-for-profit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kick-started last year to promote a universal standard for developer applications on... [26 Mar 2008]
Battle of the social networks: Facebook outpaces MySpace
News New figures from metrics firm comScore show that, in May, the battle of the social-networking sites may have gained a new front-runner: Facebook appears to have surpassed long-time rival MySpace in worldwide unique visitors for the first time. [24 Jun 2008]
US to block minors' access to MySpace?
News MySpace.com has recently found itself pummelled by critical media reports describing how teens are divulging personal information without much thought to the consequences. But now the online social-networking phenomenon as a whole is under attack... [11 May 2006]
Google and Microsoft cuddling up to MySpace
News Social networking giant MySpace - beloved of teens and bands peddling their tunes - is cosying up to the old school of internet players. According to the Financial Times, MySpace is in talks with both Google and Microsoft over a tie-up in search... [23 May 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 of California in Los Angeles... [28 Mar 2007]
