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WHID 2005-11: Samy XSS Worm Hits MySpace

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2005-11
Date Occured: 
8 Nov 2005
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Attacked Entity Field: 
Web 2.0

The Samy worm at my space is now a classic, both a sophisticated attack and a well documented one, it became a case study in the web application security field. Recently Robert Hansen (RSnake) wrote a very interesting blog entry about Samy and what happened to him since.

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