Architect of first Web 2.0 worm, which paralyzed MySpace, looks forward to life after he serves his sentence If Samy Kamkar plays his cards right, he may be allowed to visit MySpace again in just ...

Samy Kamkar was really just trying to impress girls. Instead he made Web hacking history. Kamkar created what is considered the first Web 2.0 worm — a virulent bug that could not be blocked by a ...

0:00. MUS. SAMY: One day, you know, my mom was able to get a computer and bring it home, and this was the best day of my life. ELISE: This is Samy Kamkar.

A worm is targeting MySpace users, compromising their "About me" pages and infecting visitors to them, Symantec has warned. When a logged-in MySpace user goes to another member's "About me" page ...

The unknown 19-year-old, who used the name “Samy,” put a small bit of code in his user profile on MySpace, a 32-million-member site, most of whom are under age 30.

After creating the MySpace Samy worm in 2005, causing MySpace to shut down, and then agreeing to a felony plea deal that included not touching a computer or accessing the Internet for four years ...

Later Saturday a second wave of the worm, which Twitter described as "much more intense," compromised about 100 accounts. Twitter responded by identifying and securing the accounts, and identified ...

worm. The worm, a computer program designed to propagate and infect users over a network, targeted the San Francisco-based Twitter site in a series of four attacks from Saturday morning until ...

A hacker, known for unleashing a worm on the once-popular MySpace social network, said he has devised a technique to crack under two minutes any combination by Master Lock, a padlock company owned ...

Samy Kamkar was really just trying to impress girls. Instead he made Web hacking history. Kamkar created what is considered the first Web 2.0 worm — a virulent bug that could not be blocked by a ...