What is MySpace? 

My glossary definition here.

See Wikipedia's detailed description here. 

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Worm uses QuickTime to spread on MySpace

By Joris Evers, CNET News.com http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6140613.html

Published on ZDNet News: December 4, 2006


ZDNet Tags: Security threats, Viruses and worms, Video, 
A malicious video on MySpace.com pages changes people's profiles when played, embedding itself and adding links to fraudulent Web sites, experts have warned. 

The video is a rigged QuickTime file that exploits a MySpace vulnerability and support for JavaScript in Apple Computer's embedded media player, Web security firm Websense said in an alert posted on Friday. 

When played by a MySpace user, the video adds itself to the user's MySpace page and replaces the links on the user's profile with links to phishing Web sites, Websense said. Phishing sites are fraudulent sites that attempt to trick people into giving up sensitive information such as log-in credentials. 

A MySpace representative on Monday said she could not immediately comment on the worm. 

MySpace, owned by News Corp., is a popular social-networking Web site that is estimated to have more than 70 million registered users. The worm exploits a common type of Web vulnerability called a cross-site scripting flaw in the site along with a feature called HREF track in QuickTime that has legitimate uses but can also be abused, experts said. 

"It seems that we have a MySpace worm on our hands, using a malicious QuickTime MOV file to spread," Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at security company F-Secure, wrote in a blog posting Saturday. 

The rigged QuickTime movie includes some JavaScript code that will be run automatically when an infected page is viewed with Internet Explorer, Hypponen wrote. This snippet of code modifies the user's MySpace profile. "After that, everybody who visits your MySpace profile gets hit too," he wrote. 

The same happens when viewing an infected page with Firefox, according to a CNET News.com reader who had his MySpace profile compromised. 

The object of the attack appears to get people to visit the phishing Web sites. These pages are crafted to look like MySpace log-in pages and prompt users to enter their MySpace credentials, according to F-Secure. 

This is not the first threat to hit MySpace. Miscreants have exploited the popularity of the Web site before to steal personal information and to spread adware. Also, some MySpace users have exploited weaknesses in the site to boost their fame. 

Experts have warned that as Web sites are becoming more interactive, security needs to be to be top-of-mind, not an afterthought. The development momentum for many sites is all about features, with protections being neglected, they have said. 

An infected MySpace page will include links to the fraudulent Web sites and a blue navigation bar that is not typically found on MySpace pages, according to researchers at FaceTime Security Labs. 

"If this is the case, you will need to clean out your profile and check if any of your friends have also been infected," Chris Boyd, director of malware research at FaceTime, wrote in a blog post. 

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Teen data on MySpace compromised
Source  August 30, 2006

Hack allows 'private' entries to be made public

By OUT-LAW.COM → More by this authorPublished Wednesday 30th August 2006 07:02 GMTFree White Paper Download - Data Protection Tips for SMBs A security hole in the popular MySpace social networking site allowed users to view entries marked "private", a crucial protection for users aged under 16, according to weekend reports.

Though the site is said to have fixed the problem, it was said by news reports to have been active for months. Nobody at MySpace was immediately available for comment.

The explosion of social networking sites has caused significant worry for parents and politicians over how to protect children from sexual advances over websites. The amount of information that young people reveal about themselves coupled with the opportunities for deception by sexual predators has led to concerns that the sites can be dangerous.

Leading social networking site MySpace introduced private profiles as a security measure. Earlier this summer, MySpace owner News Corporation introduced new rules to protect teenagers.

The profile of anyone under 16 was changed so that it was automatically set to "private", a status that users could previously choose, but which was not compulsory. Users over 18 attempting to contact users under 16 now have to type in the child's actual first and last name or email address in order to initiate contact, a move designed to protect children from unsolicited advances.

A piece of code has now been revealed which users claim can allow access to private profiles. Information about the hack became widely publicised through news site Digg.com last weekend, and reports this week claim that the problem has been fixed.

There are much earlier reports of the existence of the hack, though, which suggest that profiles have been being hacked for months. A post by a user called AtariBoy on the site Geeklimit.com in April detailed a hack which claimed to access users' private profile details.

"Many myspacers use CSS [cascading style sheets] to hide their comments, friends list and blog links," wrote AtariBoy. "These elements are not deleted tho [sic] and are still available publicly to anyone. You can view them by one of two methods below."

The site was said this week to have fixed the problem, though some users of the hack reported subsequently that it still worked and private profiles were still accessible.

"In the UK, the vulnerabilities alleged could amount to a breach of the Data Protection Act," said Struan Robertson, editor of OUT-LAW.COM and a technology lawyer with Pinsent Masons.

The Data Protection Act says "appropriate technical and organisational measures" must be taken to prevent unauthorised access to personal data held by organisations.

"For any site, the technical measures that are appropriate will vary depending on the type of data held and the harm that might result from a security breach," Robertson said. "There is best practice guidance in the UK for sites used by children and, if the allegations are true, it may be that MySpace fell short of the standard expected."

The Home Office taskforce's "Good practice guidance for the moderation of interactive services for children" refers to the Data Protection Act provisions and notes: "If data systems are vulnerable to hacking, or operated by people outside the control of the service operator, there is the potential that the security of users' personal data could be at risk."

If the Act's security principle were found to have been breached, a person who suffered as a result could be entitled to sue in the UK for compensation for distress.

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The trouble with MySpace... It's popular, personal and may be perilous for teens http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060212/NEWS/60212005/1002/NEWS01

By J.C. MYERS Times Argus Staff    February 12, 2006

She is from Montpelier and is 16 years old, posed provocatively in a bikini, looking at the camera. She tells about where she lives, what her full name is, where she goes to school and where the tattoos and piercings are on her body.

She is literally exposing herself to the world, in an Internet realm that has 50 million viewers. And some of them, based on myriad criminal investigations, don't have good intentions.

Chances are her parents don't have a clue. Public postings like this, created by kids as young as 10, showing photos, profiles, personal information and journal entries and links to friends, are found on the Internet at a Web site called MySpace.com.

A MySpace.com search of 12 Vermont high schools chosen at random from all corners of the state turned up almost 1,400 profiles of kids who said they were between 16 and 18 years old and were enrolled in high school.

Look a little closer and it is clear that kids far younger than 16 are also posting and giving numerous details of their lives. MySpace.com sets its minimum membership age at 14, but young people can easily lie to gain membership on the Web site.

Police Cpl. Mark Moody, school resource officer for the Montpelier school district, knows this firsthand. He's seen a profile created by a Berlin Elementary School student showing the 11-year-old provocatively posed on a bed. Her profile listed her age as 19, but she noted elsewhere on her page, "I'm actually 11 years old." 

Another profile, created by a Charlotte student, shows a coquettish 11-and-a-half-year-old girl with hands cupping her breasts, staring into the camera. Friends comment with replies such as, "You're hot."

Moody said about 10 central Vermont children he knew of - ranging in age from 10 to 14 years old - had created profiles of themselves on the Web site.

For parents, MySpace is an eye opener. The language in some of the profiles created by Vermont kids is aggressive, vulgar and sexually provocative. Some pictures show them drinking and smoking marijuana, and contain information that can easily be used to identify them.

One profile, by someone describing herself as a 19-year-old student attending Springfield High school , shows a close-up picture of the girl compressing her naked breasts in her hands, asking for comment on them. She also describes how she had an accident with her car, and how she got drunk at a party and drove her mother's car home.

And yet, many teens and educators also see much that is positive about MySpace. At Montpelier High School , where the school community has dealt with the MySpace issue extensively, Principal Peter Evans recognizes both the risks and potential benefits.

"This site has an amazing potential for positive relationships between kids from all around the world," said Evans. But, he said, accessing the site using school computers is not allowed at Montpelier High School . It is also against policy at many other Vermont high schools, including Burlington and U-32 in East Montpelier .

Schools and parents in Vermont are just beginning to grapple with the many issues raised by MySpace.com. Some schools, like Montpelier 's high school and middle school and Burlington High School , are actively dealing with the potential risks and misuse of the Web site. The administration of Harwood High School in Duxbury recently sent a memo home warning parents about MySpace. But the administrations of other schools, such as U-32 and Rutland High School , are just beginning to deal with MySpace and its many potential ramifications.

An extensive review of MySpace.com over the last three weeks reveals a Web site that can seem like a virtual locker room and a stage where it's OK to act outrageously. It's equal parts personal diary and blog, with all the benefits and dangers that the Internet is famous for. It is a place to express private thoughts, but where anyone can see them.

MySpace.com is not the only networking/relationship site. Other sites include Xanga.com, Friendster.com and Facebook.com. But MySpace.com is the most popular.

It's a free site that allows a user to sign up and create a personal profile complete with digital photos, personal writing, answers to questionnaires, lists of favorite music and other personal information. Becoming a member is known in cyber-slang as "having a MySpace," as in, "Do you have a MySpace?"

Members collect MySpace "friends" by e-mailing their own friends and acquaintances and urging them to sign up, and by receiving online "visits" from other users they don't know. Each member's collection of friends is represented on the profile by a display of their thumbnail photos. Visitors can click on those photos and visit the profiles of their friend's friends, or their friend's friends' friends.

MySpace began as a Web site for independent musicians to market original music. But it has evolved into the world's fifth-largest Web site, claiming more than 54 million users. MySpace was purchased in July for $580 million by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., the media conglomerate that owns Fox Television.

MySpace has become a phenomenon of networking. It's the latest fad in a wired world, especially for young people who some are calling "generation @." It's spreading faster than a virus: The site is growing so quickly that figures provided on the home page showed that between Feb. 6 and 7, the site gained more than 250,000 users.

The profiles created by young MySpace members can be colorful and creative. They post poetry and stories, artwork, collages and song lyrics. The Web site can be viewed as an outlet for creative expression and a way to connect with other teens - like having 54 million pen pals.

Caroline Sedano, a 17-year-old Montpelier High School student who has written an essay about MySpace, says the Web site is a good way for young people to express themselves, to learn about new music and to keep in touch with friends. Sedano said she uses the Web site to stay connected with people she met in a summer program.

"It's nice to know that friends who live across the country still care about me," she said.

An article written for the school paper by U-32 student Brendan Mullikin quotes another student, Jeff Deforge, as saying, "It's your personal corner of the Internet. You don't have to be a genius to figure it out, and you can talk about bands and stuff."  

Deforge, a 15-year-old from Calais , said in an interview that he uses MySpace every day and that most of his friends also have profiles. He uses the site to communicate with his friends and to listen to music. Deforge is careful not to post personally identifying information, and he says his parents know he has a MySpace .

But he adds that "if people give too much, like if you say where you live, you could get a stalker." He also points out that "sometimes people put up pictures of themselves with their friends, and their friends don't know they're doing it, and they might not want that."

Catherine Cattier, a 24-year-old teacher at Montpelier High School, said, "I think that MySpace could have been a good thing if the rules/user agreements were upheld, but they're not, and therefore there is too much freedom for predators and pranks."

Posting a profile in such a public place can have an array of negative consequences. MySpace can be accessed by Internet predators, or the site can be used to humiliate or harass others in "cyber-bullying." Students who misuse it can face school expulsion or lose the privilege of playing sports. Because employers and colleges say they check MySpace.com., a vulgar, obscene or racist comment, or a picture of a drinking binge, could damage chances for college admission or hurt job prospect s.

In Montpelier , several students who were MySpace members created four or five bogus profiles of teachers. One showed a doctored photo of the teacher with a gun pointing at him and a bullet flying toward his head.

The students who created the fake profiles came forward - saying it was a joke - and faced consequences, including suspension, that are part of school policy. Evans said the students met with the four or five faculty members whose photos they doctored and posted. "The teachers' reactions varied from being very hurt, to saying, 'Oh, this is just a prank,'" said Evans.

He said, "One of the teachers said that he felt like there was a nasty sign on his back as he walked around school. He said in 20 years of teaching, nothing like this had ever happened to him."

The Media Awareness Network, a Canadian public education program, warns, "Young people say things online that they would never say face-to-face because they feel removed from the action and the person at the receiving end."

Ever since a reporter began looking into the MySpace story and contacting members of the community, awareness of the site has spread. Either because parents have discovered the site or because of heightened scrutiny, some teens are dismantling and toning down their MySpace profiles, putting up barriers so only their friends can view their profiles.

The Montpelier High School Boosters last week held a "principal's roundtable" meeting to educate parents about the site and discuss ways of dealing with it.

Said Evans, "My whole world's been MySpace for the past two weeks."

Evans, who is the president of the Vermont Principals Association, reports that at a recent meeting there was not one member of the organization's executive council who had not heard of MySpace, but that few of them knew much about it. But word of the site and how kids use it is certain to grow.

Some photos on the Web site show Vermont teenagers apparently drunk, holding alcoholic beverages. Journal entries describe marijuana use, drinking parties and wild auto rides. Several of the young people from central Vermont who have posted MySpace profiles are student athletes who, according to school policies, could be suspended from sports or even from school if such material came to the attention of school administrators.

Already in the Manchester area, about 26 students lost ski passes they had received from a nonprofit coalition because they had boasted in MySpace profiles about using drugs and alcohol. Eventually the passes were restored, but school officials and school board members in Manchester are considering a community forum to discuss Internet use by young people.

According to the MySpace "terms of agreement" for membership, no addresses or last names are to be posted by members. Yet members often do provide such information within the "about me" portion of the profile. A short review of profiles created by Vermont teens revealed information that would make it easy to physically locate them. One profile created by a Montpelier teen used her name, her school and the time she leaves her house in the morning.

In creating their profiles, most teens use vulgar language and many of them, in responding to questionnaires provided by the Web site, give information about their sexual preference and whether they use alcohol, smoke marijuana or shoplift. Teens post very personal reflections on their relationships with boyfriends or girlfriends, discuss the details of parties they have been to and sometimes create bogus profiles that denigrate and threaten people they don't like.

Acting out, role playing and pushing the limits are part of the teen experience, and MySpace makes it easy for computer-savvy kids to create a persona or profile. But its ripples go beyond the home or neighborhood. Montpelier 's Sedano said of some teens who use MySpace.com that they "seem to have disregarded self-control, stopped censoring themselves and forgotten caution once they hid safely behind their computer screens."

That safety, however, is an illusion. Once a student posts information on the Internet it enters the public domain. In a story on the use of MySpace, the dean of the law school at Missouri University noted, "An individual's right to privacy belongs to the individual ... if a person waives a portion of that right then they've waived it."

The MySpace phenomenon seems unlikely to decrease any time soon. According to a recent article in Business Week magazine, 87 percent of 12- to 17-year-old Americans use the Internet, and MSNBC, an online magazine, says that half of all "blogs," or Internet journals, are composed by teenagers. A Pew Internet in American Life Report says that 57 percent of teen Internet users "create content," or post information.

Responding to the MySpace phenomenon, Montpelier 's Principal Evans wants to make sure that the school doesn't throw out the baby with the bath water. Evans said he had seen on MySpace examples of real creativity and appropriate interaction between his students.

"We saw kids doing exactly the kind of things we are trying to address in the standards set out in our mission statement. These things are requirements for graduation," he said. "Once we've assured their safety and addressed the consequences for inappropriate behavior, the biggest thing is to engage the kids positively and not squash their self expression."

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Teens' MySpace Web site a boon for predators     February 13, 2006

http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060213/NEWS/60213002/1002/NEWS01

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children says on its Web site that one in five children who use the Internet have been solicited sexually. It cautions young people and their parents not to post any personal identifying information, including photographs, which could be used by an Internet predator to physically locate them.

That opinion is seconded heartily by Montpelier 's school resource officer, Cpl. Mark Moody, who has raised concerns about how students use the popular Web site MySpace.com.

Moody says MySpace "is an absolute smorgasbord for predators, at a touch of a keyboard, to zone in on kids."

MySpace is a free networking/relationship site especially popular with teens, who use it to create a personal profile using digital photos, personal writing, answers to questionnaires, lists of favorite music and other personal information. It has now evolved into the world's fifth largest Web site, with more than 54 million users. Research by comScore Media Metrix places it fourth by total page views - 17.6 billion in December, behind only sites from Yahoo Inc., Time Warner Inc./AOL and Microsoft Corp. Google was sixth, with 7 billion.

That growth means its potential to be misused has grown dramatically as well.

Lt. Mark Lauer of the Vermont State Police Computer Crimes Unit says that MySpace is now the "most problematic" Web site. The unit has received numerous calls from parents who are concerned about inappropriate profiles that feature young girls in suggestive poses. Lauer says that over a single week in late January, the unit has received "at least five calls about inappropriate or illegal actions by under-aged Internet users."

Lauer says that, because of the number of different police departments, it is hard to know how many incidences of Internet stalking of teens by older predators have actually occurred in Vermont . "At this point it's mostly calls from concerned parents," he says.

But Sandy Everitt, assistant attorney general and director of the civil rights unit of the Vermont Attorney General's Office, says, "It's just a matter of time before we see incidents of Internet predators striking in Vermont . It's a matter of the volume of users. It's like credit card fraud. At first we didn't see it in Vermont , but as more people got credit cards we started to see it."

On a national level, there are many cases that offer parents and their children plenty of reason for caution and concern about the use of MySpace. There are numerous cases of Internet predators who used MySpace and other online networking sites to find victims.

In January, in Lafayette , La. , a 16-year-old girl was attacked by a 37-year-old man who read her profile on MySpace, and tracked her down at her after-school job.

In September, in Vienna , Va. , a 17-year-old Virginia Commonwealth University freshman was murdered by a man after her MySpace blog led him directly to her.

Last March, a 33-year-old Hughson , Calif. , firefighter was arrested for having sex with a 16-year-old boy he met on MySpace.

In a bizarre case also in March, a Colorado man was caught in a "sting" operation, arrested, and later committed suicide. The man was searching the Internet to lure an 8-year-old girl to have sex with him and then kill him.

The Web site has had considerable national media attention. The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Newsweek and many other publications have all done stories on MySpace and the television shows "20/20" and "Dateline" have also aired segments about the Web site.

The stories are not just about the risks that predators may pose to naïve teens who post personal information. The impersonal nature and perceived freedom of the Internet also prompts teens to use it for everything from pranks to Internet bullying, intimidation or cyber insults. According to news reports, three Louisiana honor students were suspended and arrested after one created a "biggest queer" site targeting a fellow student, who retaliated by launching a graphically violent site directed at his so-called "prep" schoolmates.

Lt. Lauer says that he knows of one extortion case involved a young "hacker" who used the Internet to steal another student's homework, then held the homework hostage, demanding that the student pay up on a debt.

Parry Aftab, an Internet lawyer and the executive director of Wiredsafety.org, reports that college students have been expelled for posting photos of themselves involved in drinking binges and that potential employers are now reviewing profiles to make hiring decisions.

The ways in which MySpace profiles can come back to haunt users are many. One of the most public recent events occurred Feb. 7 when Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., censored one of his staff members and insisted she dismantle her MySpace profile after she posted a picture of her bare midriff with her pants open and the waist of her underwear showing.

And a November article from New York Magazine reports that an employee of a large consulting firm was routinely reviewing posting on the networking Web site facebook.com to screen prospective employees.

What parents can do

Corporal Moody, Montpelier 's school resource officer, says the solution to Internet safety is simple. "We need to educate parents," he said. He said that parents often just don't know what their kids are doing online. "When I started finding profiles of kids I knew online, I called the parents and they were shocked."

One area parent, who like most parents who spoke to The Times Argus did not want her name used for fear of embarrassing her child, learned about her 15-year-old son's MySpace from her own tech-savy sister.

"I was shocked when I saw it," she says. "His girlfriend's friend wrote some very obscene things about him."

She confronted her son, and insisted that he make his MySpace private, an option offered by the site allowing members to control other's access to their profiles.

"He resented me, and thought I was invading his privacy," she says. "The thing that bothers me," said the parent "is that they don't monitor the age limit. My son wrote on his profile that he was a 99-year-old from Alabama !"

Catherine, a teen from Montpelier , says that "kids are posting all kinds of personal information on their MySpace profiles, and do not even realize that anyone can access that information."

Young people may not consider the risks of MySpace and personal postings, while at the same time they frequently know more about the Internet than their parents do. The Media Awareness Network ( or Mnet. at www.media-awareness.ca/english/index.cfm) found that 50 percent of American teens spend time on the Internet, yet only 16 percent tell their parents about what they do, and they will be secretive when adults inquire. When a Web-surfing kid writes "POS" on an instant message, or "IM," that means "parent over shoulder," for example.

Federal regulations don't provide any protection for parents or teens 13 or older. In 1998 the U.S. Congress passed the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, which is administered by the Federal Trade Commission. The law essentially requires operators of commercial Web sites or online services that collect information from children under 13 years old to inform parents about the information, and get permission before they disclose it to a third party.

Karen Muoil, an attorney for the FTC, said that though similar measures protecting older children have been introduced to Congress in the past, there are presently no such protections for older children.

There are provisions in Vermont statute that facilitate the prosecution of perpetrators who commit "hate crimes" through electronic media, such as putting up hate-based Web pages, but those protections apply to targeted classes of people, and do not specifically protect teens and children.

Assistant Attorney General Everitt said there is also a Vermont statute that addresses electronic communications. The statute imposes a fine of $250 or three months in jail for a person who, as a first offense, threatens, makes obscene suggestions, or disturbs the peace "with intent to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass or annoy, makes contact by means of a telephonic or other electronic communication..."

Kim Komando, the host of a top-ten radio show, and syndicated columnist, writes that "warnings (about the dangers of MySpace.com) may not be enough to convince kids to be safe ... teens can be especially skeptical of parental advice." She continues, "Let them read of the dangers of MySpace and similar Web sites for themselves. Sad stories of abductions, attacks and stalking related to these sites unfold every day. Just browse news stories on Google News or Yahoo News."

Sigrun Grabowski, an information technology specialist with the computer crimes unit of the Vermont State Police, says that her 15-year-old son has a MySpace, but that it's never been a problem. "We keep the computers in an open, common room in the house," she said. Grabowski says that "he knows that I work with computers, and I would find out what he did on MySpace."

Grabowski makes sure that her son doesn't post any personally identifying information. She said that her son wrote on his profile that he "gets drunk." "I asked him if that is really true, and he admitted it wasn't," she said. "I don't have much of an objection to the picture he posted of himself without a shirt. He's a teenager," said Grabowski, "but he knows I'm watching."

TIPS FOR PARENTS

According to the Web site Safeteens.com, the basics of Internet safety for teenagers are: Don't reveal your identity online; don't get together with someone you "meet" online; don't respond to hostile, belligerent or inappropriate messages and talk to your parents about what their ground rules and expectations are.

More information in Internet safety is available many different Web locations, including safekids.com; safeteens.com; blogsafety.com; safesurfers.org; WiredSafety.org.

A guide to parents: How to surf MySpace

While MySpace is a free Web site, and its pages are open to anyone, the site has many layers. Here's some advice for new browsers.

1. Become a member. It's free, and members can go places where nonmembers can't. Many photos and information are available only to members.

2. Once logged on, click on the link "search." MySpace gives members several options for searching.

3. To find your child, one quick way is to search using his or her e-mail address.

4. If that fails, another approach is to search using the "Classmate Finder" option. Type in the school's name and Vermont , and then click on the school name. MySpace then allows you to "refine your school search." Options include searching for current students or alumni. Make sure, when adjusting the "between ages" criteria, to have generous search criteria. Many high school students inflate their age, saying they are 21 when they are actually 16 (or younger).

5. Scroll down, and you'll see thumbnail pictures of MySpace profiles. Click on the picture, and you'll be taken to the teen's MySpace.

6. Not every teen links to his high school. But if you get onto the MySpace of one student, chances are they've linked to other students at the school. You can find these by clicking on the link "View all friends."

7. Once on a person's MySpace, an interesting place to look at is the "view more pics" link, which is right under the photo on the left side of the screen. This is where members post photos, and other members comment on them.

Resources

Social sites' insecurity increasingly worrisome (5 December 2006)
Report raises child index alarm (22 November 2006)
Social networkers risk losing their identities (4 October 2006)
Yahoo! wants to buy Facebook - WSJ (21 September 2006)
Jealous ex used MySpace to plot hit: police (15 September 2006)
Europe may mandate data breach notification (13 September 2006)
Social networking site fined for gathering children's data (11 September 2006)
Facebook mods controversial 'stalker-friendly' feature (8 September 2006)
Users protest over 'creepy' Facebook update (7 September 2006)
MySpace punts 'MyTunes', targets Apple (4 September 2006)
Girl raped after MySpace meeting, court hears (16 August 2006)
Google pays $900m to monetize children via MySpace (7 August 2006)
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MySpace mugging: not just kids at risk (29 June 2006)
MySpace case opens security can of worms (28 June 2006)
MySpace sued for $30m after assault on 14-year-old (20 June 2006)
MySpace takes down rude profiles (3 April 2006)