Security researcher Leigh-Anne Galloway has disclosed a massive flaw in Myspace's account recovery page, that allows anyone to gain access to any account just by knowing the person's birthday.
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Sanford Wallace, the self-proclaimed "Spam King" has been sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined $310,000 after he pleaded guilty to fraud, including sending 27 million spam messages on Facebook.
After it emerged that Myspace was the subject of a data leak, involving over 427 million passwords, the company has now confirmed that they were the subject of a data breach back in 2013.
Myspace has become the latest subject of a data leak, with over 427 million passwords up for sale in the online underground. Passwords were not stored securely, using old, compromised standards.
Lizard Squad continues taking down websites, this time it included a whole lot of various communication and social media services including Facebook, Instagram, AIM, Tinder, Hipchat and MySpace.
MySpace has started a campaign that will attempt to woo old users back using nostalgic images taken from the users account. The ailing social media site underwent a huge overhaul in 2013.
A bug, since fixed, in the Nokia App Highlights app for Windows Phone has apparently revealed a number of upcoming, but still unannounced, Windows Phone 8 apps, including a MySpace app.
MySpace Tom has been very active on Twitter lately and has been answering a lot of tweets that have headed his way, one of which has sparked quite the response from tweeters worldwide.
After buying MySpace for $35 million over a year ago, its current owners in Specific Media are promising a revamp of the social networking service "soon" with a new video showing off its UI.
Microsoft has reportedly contacted Windows Live users to inform them they will no longer be able to share their MySpace activities with their Windows Live Messenger contacts.
News Corporation's chief executive Rupert Murdoch admitted this week that the company's $580 million purchase of MySpace was a "huge mistake" and that the social networking site was mismanaged.
A new report says that Facebook is looking to hire a new executive to help the social networking site improve its relationships with the movie and music industries.
The MySpace social media service has decided to delay its plans for a major revamp of the company. Its new owners Specific Media and Justin Timberlake bought MySpace earlier this summer.
A new study from Columbia University claims that teenagers who use social networking sites like Facebook are more likely to use drugs, smoke or drink.
Despite the looming presence of Google+, last July was the best month for Facebook and Twitter, with both sites posting record numbers of unique visitors to their sites.
In light of the Norway attacks in July, new concerns are emerging over how fringe extremist groups are utilizing social media to spread their messages.
The social networking web sites all follow Facebook which isn't likely to give up its number one spot anytime soon. However, there is a lot of competition for the number two slot. Today, TechCrunch reports...
Earlier today it was revealed that online advertising company Specific Media had purchased the social networking web site MySpace for a bargain basement price of $35 million. But that's not all. Today Specific Media revealed...
MySpace, the once mighty social networking web site that is now a shadow of its former self, has been officially sold off by its former owner News Corporation to the advertising company Specific Media. AllThingsDigital...
As we reported earlier today, the once massive social networking web site MySpace is rumored to be conducting mass layoffs ahead of a possible sale. Now the AlllThingsDigital web site is reporting that MySpace's current...
The long and somewhat sad downward spiral that is the MySpace social networking web site continues, at least according to the latest Internet reports. TechCrunch reports via unnamed sources that MySpace is expected to lay...
An investment group that counts current Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick as among its members is in talks to acquire the troubled social networking web site MySpace. Reuters reports via unnamed sources that Kotick was...
Despite announcing in a press conference last November that Myspace would start using Facebook Connect for users to quickly register and login through the social networking website; this hasn't done much to help the site...
Myspace's recent redesign appears to have received a lukewarm reception, as parent company News Corp is already looking into selling options, according to PaidContent. In an interview, COO Chase Carey admitted that "there's been a...
Times just aren't getting any better for MySpace, with the company yesterday announcing it would lay off 500 workers. Rumors of impending job cuts had been circulating for some time and intensified in November last year...
Five years after spending $580 million to buy MySpace, a News Corporation executive has admitted the company is open to selling off the social networking site. Reuters reports via The Sydney Morning Herald that a sale...
Today, MySpace and Facebook held a press conference to announce a new partnership, or more of an official surrendering ceremony for MySpace. The short press conference only lasted a couple of minutes, but as expected, MySpace...
It's that time of the week again, where Neowin takes a look back at all the recent front page news articles and goes over the top items. This week covers some Windows 8 news, Kinect,...
Since its launch in August 2003, MySpace has grown into a 66 million user social network. Originally the largest of the social sites on the Internet, the struggling site has been completely overshadowed by Facebook,...
MySpace practically invented social networking, but somewhere down the line they lost their way and became less and less popular allowing competitors like Facebook and Twitter to take over the top spots. While some companies...
MySpace is preparing to rollout a fresh, cleaner-looking, user homepage design and has shown it off today for the first time. The layout refresh, which Mashable says will be made available as a "sneak peek"...
Twitter is known for it's ability to keep the world updated in real time about events around the globe, but only if you're following the right people, or connected to Twitter at the right time....
Microsoft has announced that official connectors, built by MySpace and Facebook for Outlook Social Connector, will be available for download in the first of half of this year. The software giant also announced the immediate availability...
In a move to curb the alarmingly high rate of youth depression and suicide, social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace and Twitter could be scanned for signs of "at risk" behaviour. Researchers at New...
News reported on the Wired blog 'Epicenter' warns office workers to check their employment contract or workplace rules before logging into Twitter, Facebook, or any other social networking website. According to Epicenter, a recent study...
Late last year, Microsoft announced a rather large list of partnerships with some of the web's biggest social networks allowing Windows Live customers to share what they were doing with their network. Microsoft likes to...
A surprising article has been published in today's issue of the UK newspaper The Independent. According to the article, the media regulator Ofcom have done some research and have found that growing numbers of teenagers...
The social networking website MySpace is set to launch a new email service this week, offering users their own @myspace.com email address. Just what you always wanted, eh? According to paidContent, the launch will...
It looks like Facebook could soon dethrone MySpace in the number of unique visitors, because according to TechCrunch, Facebook has caught up to MySpace in terms of the number of unique visitors each site receives....
According to Nielsen Online, 60 percent of Twitter users stop using it within a month, meaning that just 40 percent (on average) return after a month of signing up to it. Despite a huge increase...
