Check out this illuminating post by Brian Krebs on how anything up to a million Myspace users were exposed to Spyware. Myspace is having a pretty rough time of it lately, with Zango Adware, Flash-based redirects and XSS (cross site scripting) attacks running riot. I don't think anyone could have predicted this current explosion of attacks on Myspace, but this probably won't be the last time you see Myspace mentioned here. The hackers have picked up the scent of blood in the air...
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