t’s official: Google (Google) has just announced Google Buzz, its newest push into the social media foray. This confirms earlier reports of Gmail integrating a social status feature.
On stage revealing the new product was Bradley Horowitz, Google’s vice president for product management. While introducing the product, Mr. Horowitz focused on the human penchant for sharing [...]
Facebook has sued three men, alleging they used phishing techniques to get access to Facebook user accounts and then sent spam from the compromised accounts.
The lawsuit was filed Monday in federal court in San Jose, California, and named as defendants Jeremi Fisher, Philip Porembski, Ryan Shimeall and the companies associated with them, Choko Systems, Harm, [...]
Facebook users are too willing to give out their personal information, security firm Sophos has found.
According to Sophos’ Australian team, which conducted a study to see how likely Facebook users were to offer up personal information, 41 to 46 percent of the 100 people Sophos contacted “blindly accepted” friend requests from two fake Facebook users [...]
When the President of the United States warns schoolchildren to watch what they say and do on Facebook, you know that we’ve got a problem…and it’s not one limited to the U.S.’s borders, either. People everywhere are mindlessly over-sharing on the world’s largest social network, without a second thought as to who’s reading their posts [...]
Enjoy Twitter, but have trouble wading through the deluge of updates from the hundreds of people you follow? In order to help you break down your Twitter consumption into bite-size pieces, the social networking site has begun rolling out its latest feature, Lists, to its user base at large.
Previously in testing for a limited number [...]
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-043 – Critical
Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Web Components Could Allow Remote Code Execution (957638)
Published: August 11, 2009 | Updated: October 27, 2009
Version: 2.0
General Information
Executive Summary
This security update resolves several privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Web Components that could allow remote code execution if a user viewed a specially crafted Web page. [...]
Australia’s firefighters are apparently a bit worried about the future of emergency services, after rescuing two girls trapped in a storm drain who turned only to Facebook to ask for help.
According to southern Australia’s Metropolitan Fire Service, it received a “Triple Zero” emergency call on Sunday. (That’s Australia’s equivalent to 911.)
The person who called said [...]
For ESPN, the social-networking revolution will not be televised–or tweeted, blogged, or Facebooked. Not for now, at least, and not without ESPN’s approval.
The sports network has apparently banned its workforce from posting any sports-related content on social-networking tools such as Twitter and Facebook without its permission. The news first came to light Tuesday when Ric [...]
“So tired today,” Annemarie Dooling tweeted early Tuesday. “really really tired. ugh.”
A couple of hours later, things really really picked up.
“My bank was just held up — with me in it. HSBC 34 and 8,” the 26-year-old Web producer tweeted her 1,900 or so followers just after 9 a.m. under her Twitter name, TravelingAnna, referring [...]
