Comments on: MySpace Page for Alicia Keys “Hacked”

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Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:17:04 +0000

[...] Such a simple, dumb thing to have happen, and it seems like this kind of stuff happens all the damn time. [...]

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» From the floor at RSA: a good-guy rootkit — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:14:35 +0000

[...] This attack began by focusing on porn video but is spreading to videos on MySpace, such as the Alicia Keys exploit. Posted by bacohido on April 8th, 2008 | Filed in Uncategorized [...]

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By: Fred Mitchell

Fred Mitchell — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:17:58 +0000

This is not just an Alicia Keys problem. Just happens to be the only one getting a lot of press right now. Chris Boyd, better known as Paperghost brought this to light Oct 31. I know of another artist, Shannon Haley that has her page Hacked 2 times since early October. She is an up an coming artist and had over 69,000 friends on her site before she was hacked. MySpace “fixed-it” just today, however she only has 263 friends now. She is competing on FameCast and lost her complete MySpace fan list. Makes it rough for the artist that does not have same pull with MySpace as Alicia Keys. The hackers are running wild on MySpace and it appears that MySpace could care less. That is unless your a top name artist.
Go to my blog and take a look at another example of a Spam/Hack/Scam on MySpace that even has their logo and picture of Tom. I have reported over 100+ of these but only a few have been removed. Can’t even get a response from MySpace.

Fred Mitchell
http://deltamusic-live.blogspot.com

By: Scott Bartell

Scott Bartell — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:20:19 +0000

Looks like myspace fixed it. Cool.

By: Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:35:12 +0000

Maybe the hacker had just recently fallin in and out of love with Alicia Keys.

…get it?

Brian Wilson, Zolve.com

By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:07:22 +0000

Think that’s bad? I know forums where malicious high-jackers can, with next to no work, shamelessly plug their own worthless blogs without contributing to the content of the thread! No ActiveX even required!

By: meetingflex.com

meetingflex.com — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:18:59 +0000

so what

By: steveballme

steveballme — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:52:54 +0000

I’d love to get mey chance to hack at Alecia!

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

By: digital-lifestyle

digital-lifestyle — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:54:46 +0000

It was earlier Google Opensocial , now it is myspace, the hackers are going smarter these days.

By: Scott Schiller

Scott Schiller — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:26:24 +0000

The technique is simple and effective (abs-positioned link with a large width/height, high z-index and so on) - more interesting/disturbing is how someone managed to get that code into that profile page.

High-profile sites are popular targets for XSS-type hacks given the traffic and user base they attract. I’ve also heard of shady hosts injecting iframes loading exploit code on some sites - quite sketchy.

By: Pierre Fontenelle

Pierre Fontenelle — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:14:05 +0000

P.S. This technique has been in use on many MySpace pages for sometime. The alicia keys page has been compromised. It’s a link designed with an invisible gif background with an excessive height parameter in its styling definition. Because styling has been disabled from profile comments, it can only be procured within the profile itself (which is why I say the alicia keys account really was hacked into). I’ve seen it done with many different follow URLS for sometime now. It’s been used before to direct users to fake myspace login urls. At one point this same technique of styling was used to create myspace phishing login pages directly in profiles. I do my part and report the pages to MySpace or send a message to the user him/herself.

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:06:31 +0000

Yawn. Why is this a story?

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:52:56 +0000

Not our fault!
Blame the clever hackers!
Macs use active-x too!
I love Alica!
A patch is already on the way!

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

By: Pierre Fontenelle

Pierre Fontenelle — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:52:52 +0000

I sent a message to the Alicia Keys profile back in September about this hoping whoever ran the profile would take care of it, but I doubt they ever read it.

By: Don Wilson

Don Wilson — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:37:12 +0000

Oh no, not Alicia Keys!

By: Yang Huang

Yang Huang — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:30:44 +0000

This is what happens when you adopt music as a mainstream factor in a social platform. Reason why never happens to Facebook..

By: Mike Soffis

Mike Soffis — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:51:52 +0000

by the way - stern. Stop being a TC groupie.

By: Mike Soffis

Mike Soffis — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:50:52 +0000

So what

By: True

True — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:04:13 +0000

Yes, McCain’s wasn’t a hack. Mike Davidson just changed the image that McCain was leeching. That’s not a hack at all.

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:46:07 +0000

I hate MySpace, though they have been doing a decent job recently - though just catching up with Facebook. McCain wasn’t a hack at all, he was leeching someone else’s image.

By: Tampa Web Site Design

Tampa Web Site Design — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:45:22 +0000

Yes I agree

By: Fabian Schonholz

Fabian Schonholz — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:37:06 +0000

Open is good … not an excuse for not secure.

By: Ryan Merket

Ryan Merket — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:07:48 +0000

Yeah and OpenSocial is VERY Open — see my blog for more:
http://www.ryanmerket.com/blog

By: www.carversation.com

www.carversation.com — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:03:58 +0000

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