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How to find out everything that Facebook *really* knows about you

20
Oct
2011

Max Schrems, a 24-year-old law student from Vienna, a meticulous document requester and researcher, is now sitting on a pile of 1,200 pages that comprise his personal-data Facebook dossier. He secured the data by using a European requirement that entities with data about individuals make it available to those individuals if they request it. After […]

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NHS Direct Twitter account compromised by Acai Berry diet spammers

17
Oct
2011

NHS Direct, the UK helpline which provides expert health advice via the telephone and internet, has had its Twitter account taken over by spammers promoting an Acai Berry diet. At 10:40pm UK time on Sunday night, the NHS Direct Twitter account posted the following message: Are you wanting to lose some weight? i highly suggest […]

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Homeless hacker ‘Commander X’ pleads not guilty [VIDEO]

24
Sep
2011

The FBI believes that the homeless man they arrested on Thursday was “Commander X”, a member of the People’s Liberation Front (PLF) associated with Anonymous hacktivism. 47-year-old Christopher Doyon has entered a not guilty plea to charges of “conspiracy to cause intentional damage to a protected computer, causing intentional damage to a protected computer, and […]

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