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MySpace Hacks Reveal Yet Another Downside Of Site's Liberal Blinky-Background Policy


MySpace hacks used to be the domain of people engaging in beefs and poetry slams, but now they've gotten a bit more insidious. The above video shows just how Alicia Keys' MySpace page was altered in such a way that clicking any part of the page's background resulted in users being sent to a malicious page on a Chinese server where they were instructed to download an ActiveX control, which would then install a rootkit or some other piece of icky spyware. Guess it's time for everyone to change their passwords again! (Also: How psyched are the people who run Facebook Music right now?)

Alicia Keys MySpace Page Is Hacked [Exploitation Labs, via Coolfer]

5:50 PM on Fri Nov 9 2007
By mjohnston
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