With regards Myspace security, I’d have to agree with the notion that spam and unsolicited fake friend requests are way down on previous years…it’s very rare I see any nowadays. At one point you couldn’t move for the things – so a big improvement there. They seem to be getting much better at locking down certain technical issues that have aided hackers and spammers in the past.

However – there are still major problems that don’t seem to be addressed, which relate to the people actually using the site. There have been issues for some years now on Myspace with regards groups of people that intentionally cause trouble for other users. They spam forum groups, support groups and generally harass and abuse other people for fun.

There have been custom made tools created by wannabe hackers who get drawn into these groups and trouble generally spills from one social networking site to the other, with Myspace being the base of operations (for the most part) for these people.

Scat porn, overlays, dubious links and image flooding are all common. Recently the Iron Man movie group maintained by movie director john favreau was spammed into oblivion, and there have been cases where rape support groups had to effectively shut down because of the images and abuse posted to their help forums.

Despite Myspace being aware of these issues:

http://tinyurl.com/5hkg7y

…as far as I can see most of these activities continue to take place. I’d be curious to know why Myspace don’t seem to be able to police this problem effectively.