Myspace Becomes Hybrid for Phishing Scam

The online social networking site, is causing a lot of problems for unsophisticated teens and unwary adults whose sites have been targeted by a phishing scam. The scam offers the users a free Macy's gift card. Macy has denied that such offer exist.

The users of Myspace are tricked into giving out their usernames and passwords. After their information is captured, the scam also sends out the same Macy's gift card offers to the users Myspace friends. Myspace seems to not be able to control this type of scam.

Myspace Is a Haven for Gangs

The online social networking site, Myspace, is always in the news. It appears that the online social networking site is only interested in their revenue dollars and not the interest of the large numbers of young people who spend time on their site. Myspace appears to not be concerned with what is being posted on its sites.

There has been incidents of alleged internet posturings by gang-banger wannabes that has run smack into school officials with zero tolerance.

Three Kamiakin High school students were hauled before the school board last week to answer questions about photos posted on their Myspace, accused of flashing gang-signs and clothing on school grounds.

Myspace Is Hacker Friendly

The MySpace page of singer Alicia Keys has become the latest vehicle for malware on the Web.

Researchers at the Atlanta, GA-based Exploit Prevention Labs have discovered multiple hacked MySpace pages, including the personal page of the R&B artist. Also hacked were pages for Greements of Fortune, a French funk band, and Dykeenies, a rock band from Glasgow.

When visitors click almost anywhere on these infected site, they are directed to co8vd.cn/s, which appears to be a Chinese malware site. The visitors then see a box on their screen telling them they need to install a special codec to view the video – a legitimate possibility on any site rich in media. But if the visitor clicks ‘yes’, the site installs software that appears to be a rootkit and DNS changer. This would allow the hackers to take over what you see on your browser and what you download onto your computer.