MYSPACE OR THEIR-SPACE - SPYWARE COMPROMISES IDENTITY INFORMAITON ON MYSPACE

Spyware thieves recently inserted spyware into MySpace which seriously compromised the identity information of over a million MySpace users. The spyware was maliciously placed in ads and when displayed on a PC moved to infect the PC with spyware. MySpace did not detect the problem until over one million downloads had occurred. MySpace management called the attack a “criminal act.”

Spyware is a type of malicious program that watches what users do with their computer and then send this information over the internet to those who planted the spyware. Spyware can collect many different types of information about a user including password information used on the computer for banking and other transactions, key logging for recreating PC user sessions, and the capture of any other information stored on a PC.

Posted by Dr. Richard Blum