Samy Kamkar
The Worm That Ate MySpace
The Samy worm, and a decade of hardware hacks
Rating
81Impact score
Domains
XSSHardwareRadio
Scouting report
Released a self-propagating cross-site scripting worm in 2005 that added over a million MySpace friends in under a day and took the site down. After his sentence he kept publishing: SkyJack, OwnStar, KeySweeper, and a long line of garage-door and car-key radio attacks explained on video for anyone.
Curator’s note
The best explainer in the game. Half the set learned from his videos.
Sources
- 01Samy Kamkar en.wikipedia.org
- 02The Samy worm en.wikipedia.org
- 03Kamkar’s own writeup of the MySpace worm samy.pl