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Facebook Turns to Websense for Malicious URL Detection

03

Oct

2011

Facebook has partnered with security vendor Websense to protect its users from third-party malicious URLs spammed on the social networking website, the companies said on Monday. Facebook has been plagued by malware distribution campaigns, survey scams and other types of threats for years now and despite the company’s best efforts the attacks continue. The site’s […]

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USA Today’s Twitter account falls foul of hackers

26

Sep

2011

USA Today is the latest high profile Twitter account to have fallen victim to a group of hackers. A group calling themselves the Script Kiddies have claimed responsibility for the hack, which involved posting a series of messages to the official USA Today Twitter account, including: “Fox News, Wal-mart, Unilevel, Pfizer, NBC and now USA […]

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Google Plus opens to everyone – but do you still want to join?

22

Sep

2011

If you will pardon the literary allusion (or, if you prefer, the flagrant plundering of someone else’s catch-phrase), “Google is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” So differently, in fact, that until legal and community pressure forced Google’s hand back in 2008, the company just plain refused to have a link to its […]

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