unless i'm mistaken, isn't this:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139137-c,hackers/article.html

the exact same thing from the 31st of october?

shouldnt proper credit be given here, or can anyone randomly lay claim to anything they feel like weeks or months down the line?

Aye, it was: http://www.vitalsecurity.org/2007/11/spot-difference.html

Grammar checkers could be handy too... "It's unclear how many page have being affected" is, shall I say, an interesting way of putting it. :)

I know we're creeping into Slashdot pedantry territory, but I think it's fair enough to pick apart such issues in the articles themselves rather than the reply posts. It is a slippery slope, however ... after all smart-arse posts like these are just crying out to be picked apart by other readers ...

Here is information about the software that installed through the security hole:

http://freefixer.com/blog/myspace-exploit/