3 blog reactions to http://shiflett.org/blog/2005/oct/myspace-csrf-and-xss-worm-samy

Real-world example: A hacker known as Samy gained more than a million “friends” on MySpace.com with a worm in late 2005, automatically including the message “Samy is my hero” in thousands of MySpace pages. The attack itself may not have been that harmful, but it was said to demonstrate the power of combining cross site scripting with cross site request forgery. Another example that came to light one year ago exposed a

Real-world example: A hacker known as Samy gained more than a million “friends” on MySpace.com with a worm in late 2005, automatically including the message “Samy is my hero” in thousands of MySpace pages. The attack itself may not have been that harmful, but it was said to demonstrate the power of combining cross site scripting with cross site request forgery. Another example that came to light one year ago exposed a

Real-world example: A hacker known as Samy gained more than a million “friends” on MySpace.com with a worm in late 2005, automatically including the message “Samy is my hero” in thousands of MySpace pages. The attack itself may not have been that harmful, but it was said to demonstrate the power of combining cross site scripting with cross site request forgery. Another example that came to light one year ago exposed a