Rick Deacon, a US college student, showed hackers in Las Vegas how to take hold of MySpace profile pages.
Month ago, Deacon uncovered a MySpace vulnerability and shared his discovery at Defcon, the largest gathering of computer hackers in the world.
Hacker deceives MySpace users into clicking rigged links, which routed them to a file that steals passwords and identifying information in software cookies. By then, hackers could take control of user’s profiles and use them for more attacks or to infect users' computers with viruses, according to Deacon.
After his presentation, an email was sent to him telling his account was deleted for “violating terms of service”.
The social networking web site MySpace already fixed its weakness and Deacon on the other hand made another account but has no plans to hunt for a new way to hack the Web site.
source: Agence France Presse
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