Animal authorities in British Columbia said a found cat was reunited with its owner thanks to workers who thought to use Facebook — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Security company Symantec has posted a notification on their blog that reveals a flaw in the Facebook web application API that has allowed apps nearly complete access to user’s accounts. This includes profiles, photos, chat and the ability to mine customer information — via bluejackett24.newsvine.com
Sony has suffered a third data breach with revelations of details of customers who entered a product sweepstake being discovered on the internet.
And in a blog post on the company’s website, Sony’s Senior Director, Corporate Communications and Social Media, Patrick Seybold said its online entertainment arm had been unaware of the extent of the hacking of its site, first revealed a week ago — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Insatiable demand for smartphones, tablets and data-enabled devices is putting telephone networks under so much pressure they are struggling to cope.
Critics suggest mobile phone companies have signed up too many people when their networks are unable to provide the service they are selling. That assertion is almost impossible to confirm, but some industry analysts are convinced it is true — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The FBI might be asking your permission soon to reach into your computer and rip something out. And you don’t know it’s there.
In a first for US law enforcement efforts to make the Internet more secure, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has seized control of a Russian cybercrime enterprise that has enslaved millions of personal computers and may have gained access to US diplomatic, military, and law enforcement computer systems — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Waterbear, a new Scratch-like
visual programming language, made its debut at a JavaScript conference this week. Basically you can put together a JavaScript program by putting blocks together and entering some parameters. The output is JavaScript that you can use in other web pages. The Waterbear system runs in a browser, it’s HTML5 based, and needs no installation. You can’t help but think that this is the way all programming will be done in the future.
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a single tainted digital image may be worth thousands of dollars for computer crooks who are using weaknesses in Google’s Image Search to foist malicious software on unsuspecting surfers.
For several weeks, some readers have complained that clicking on Google Images search results directed them to Web pages that pushed rogue anti-virus scareware via misleading security alerts and warnings. On Wednesday, the SANS Internet Storm Center posted a blog entry saying they, too, were receiving reports of Google Image searches leading to fake anti-virus sites. According to SANS, the attackers have compromised an unknown number of sites with malicious scripts that create Web pages filled with the top search terms from Google Trends. The malicious scripts also fetch images from third-party sites and include them in the junk pages alongside the relevant search terms, so that the automatically generated Web page contains legitimate-looking content — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Records about stolen artworks taken during World War II are to be placed on an international database so items can be traced.
It is hoped publishing the documents online will help families and historians find missing items seized by the Nazis — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In congressional testimony this morning, Dr Gene Spafford of Purdue University said that Sony was using outdated software on its servers — and knew about it months in advance of the recent security breaches that allowed hackers to get private information from over 100 million user accounts — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In congressional testimony this morning, Dr Gene Spafford of Purdue University said that Sony was using outdated software on its servers — and knew about it months in advance of the recent security breaches that allowed hackers to get private information from over 100 million user accounts — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Homeland Security’s ICE unit is not happy with a Firefox add-on that allows the public to circumvent the domains seizures carried out during the past several months. In an attempt to correct this vulnerability
in their anti-piracy strategy, ICE have asked Mozilla to pull the add-on from their site. Unfortunately for them Mozilla denied the request, arguing that this type of censorship may threaten the open Internet — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A major furniture rental chain provides its customers with computers that allow it to track keystrokes, take screenshots and even snap webcam pictures of renters using the devices at home, a Wyoming couple said in a lawsuit Tuesday.
Computer privacy experts said the firm has the right to equip its computers with software it can use to shut off the devices remotely if customers stop paying their bills, but they must be told if they’re being monitored — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Vodafone has quietly launched its own femtocell product aimed at boosting 3G coverage indoors, but has limited the release to select business customers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Westpac is this morning scrambling to restore services after a data centre glitch took down its ATM, EFTPOS, website and online banking facilities this morning — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Everyone and their dog has an opinion on how to perform search-engine optimisation
(SEO) and make your online business more visible in major search engines; how do you distinguish the potentially useful tactics from the snake oil salesmen? The simple answer: put your energy into building a quality site rather than worrying about the search impact of what you have done — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Malware often spreads itself by using the Windows autorun feature to install itself on USB drives. USB Immunizer prevents that from happening by placing a special, non-removable version of the autorun.inf file on any USB drives or SD cards you choose, meaning they’re not vulnerable to this form of attack — via Lifehacker Australia
A possible landmark ruling in one of the mass-BitTorrent lawsuits in the U.S. may spell the end of the pay-up-or-else-schemes
that have targeted over 100,000 Internet users in the last year. District Court Judge Harold Baker has denied a copyright holder the right to subpoena the ISPs of alleged copyright infringers, because an IP-address does not equal a person — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Many of you have been asking what the big deal is about the new copyright legislation (Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill 119-2). Isn’t it a good measure for stopping illegal downloads? The answer is quite clear: No — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google has launched Google Shopping in Australia, a product search engine that helps people discover products online — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) has announced record levels of complaints against telcos for the first three months of 2011, with Vodafone making up the lion’s share of complaints received — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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