A U.S. student who revealed a weakness he had discovered in MS (myspace) has had his profile removed from the social-networking site.
Rick Deacon demonstrated how to hijack other MS users' profile pages and infect computers to fellow hackers at the 5-day long Defcon conference in Las Vegas.
Deacon's method worked only with Firefox and not the Internet Explorer Web browser. He demonstrated how to entice MS users to click links and a file that obtains their passwords.
After finishing the presentation Deacon received an email from MS informing him that as he had violated terms of service his profile would be deleted. The MS weakness has now been patched.
Rick Deacon demonstrated how to hijack other MS users' profile pages and infect computers to fellow hackers at the 5-day long Defcon conference in Las Vegas.
Deacon's method worked only with Firefox and not the Internet Explorer Web browser. He demonstrated how to entice MS users to click links and a file that obtains their passwords.
After finishing the presentation Deacon received an email from MS informing him that as he had violated terms of service his profile would be deleted. The MS weakness has now been patched.
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