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Be very cautious -- sex offenders are creeping up in every corner in the social networking world, which is no surprise.  However, when you hear a number like 29,000 sex offenders registered on MySpace it makes you want to cringe. 

MySpace said the 29,000 names have been deleted from its servers. "We're pleased that we've successfully identified and removed registered sex offenders from our site and hope that other social-networking sites follow our lead," said Chief Security Officer Hemanshu Nigam.

The number of sex offenders that had been on MySpace figures to boost identity-verification advocates who have been arguing for age- and identity-verification requirements for social-networking sites.

"On the most basic level, this is horrifying," said John Aristotle Phillips, CEO of Aristotle, a technology consulting firm that has developed age-verification for sites including Anheuser-Busch's pioneering Bud.TV. "You have 29,000 convicted sex offenders milling around with kids on a website, and it's just the tip of the iceberg because these are just the people who were stupid enough to use their real names."

MySpace has argued in the past that age verification is ineffective.

[via meshly]

Two hackers, Mondo Armando and Mustaschio, are claiming April 2007 as the Month of MySpace Bugs.  On their blog, they are claiming that MySpace is full of security vulnerabilities and will reveal each bug one at a time.  Saying that they could easily hit sites such as Google and Yahoo, MySpace would be more fun:

“The purpose of the exercise is not so much to expose Myspace as a hive of spam and villainy (since everyone knows that already), but to highlight the monoculture-style danger of extremely popular websites populated by users of various levels of sophistication. We could have just as easily gone after Google or Yahoo or MSN or ZDNet or whatever. Myspace is just more fun, and is becoming notoriously dickish about responding to security issues.”

Actually, the reasons for going after MySpace are more: the News Corp-owned domain is the biggest social site in the world, thus bringing a lot of profits to its owners. There have also been many scandals in the past concerning MySpace’s security against phishing attacks and against sexual predators.