Myspace.com have some very basic problems...

http://news.netcraft.com/

"Netcraft has discovered that the social networking site, MySpace, appears to have been compromised by phishers who have presented a spoof login form on the main site. This modified login form is designed to submit the victim's username and password to a remote server hosted in France.

Netcraft has notified MySpace of the issue, although it currently remains live. Because the fraudulent login page is hosted on MySpace's own servers and does not exhibit any signs of external content, such as cross-site scripting (XSS) or open redirects, it is convincing and even security-conscious users are at risk of becoming victims. The attack is launched from a profile page, where the username is login_home_index_html, and uses specially-crafted HTML in order to hide the genuine MySpace content from the page and instead display its own login form."

PCWorld have reported that the fraudulent site has been shut down BUT how many users were affected before this occurred?  So far there has been no word on how many users' accounts may have been compromised. 

It remains to be seen why Myspace allowed a user account like "login_home_index_html" to be registered when they have a database of user names that are not permitted.

I block myspace.com on whenever possible on networks in which I have a say about such things because of incidents like the one featured today, and one million PCs being infected via a banner ad and because the myspace login is unencrypted.

Published Sat, Oct 28 2006 14:23 by sandi

Comments

# re: Myspace.com have some very basic problems...

Sunday, October 29, 2006 11:20 AM by Nicholas

Check out my latest blog entry on MySpace, where I ramble about that very thing..

http://www.pdsys.org/blog/2006/10/25/MySpaceSucks.aspx

# Just one more reason not to use myspace

Friday, November 10, 2006 7:27 PM by Spyware Sucks

It has been reported publicly that myspace usernames and passwords have been stolen by phishers: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/79500

# Once again MySpace proves to be a danger to the Internet community

Saturday, December 02, 2006 1:43 AM by Spyware Sucks

Once again, the MySpace network is a danger to its visitors. WebSense Security Lab reports that it has:

# Once again MySpace proves to be a danger to the Internet community

Saturday, December 02, 2006 1:45 AM by Spyware Sucks

Once again, the MySpace network is a danger to its visitors. WebSense Security Lab reports that it has:

# re: Myspace.com have some very basic problems...

Wednesday, June 04, 2008 3:19 PM by evas

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