Two Items: MySpace Worm Redux and Wikipedia's Timeline

From a friend in KL, a couple of things. First, the MySpace worm redux, written up by Daniel Hanson. A nice little summary of what happened.

I believe we saw one possible direction of worm evolution recently with Myspace. It got some press, but I don't know if we have fully appreciated the significance of what happened. As background, Myspace is a portal site that allows people to have a profile, link to friends, essentially an online method of networking. Someone found a way to manipulate his profile in order to have other people "link" to him as a friend. This manipulation was viral, and by the end, the system was shutdown until Myspace had fixed the vulnerability that allowed this to happen. Meanwhile, the author, Samy, now had many, many friends.

Source: Evolution of Web-based worms, Daniel Hanson on SecurityFocus.

Next up, a list of noteworthy computer viruses and worms on Wikipedia. The timeline itself is a nice idea, but is missing several key worms from over the years. Being Wikipedia, some of you may be able to help fill in the gaps with descriptions and additional milestones. Not every worm needs to be listed, but some major events are worthwhile. IM worms, cellphone malware, etc.