Tag: twitter
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Twitter Account Hacked By Holding PayPal, GoDaddy Ransom (Updated)
Elaborate Hack Steals Rare Twitter Handle @N* from ibtimes.com: A social drama is unfolding on Twitter after a longtime user had his rare single character handle @N hacked and stolen. The attackers went through great lengths to get the much-coveted handle. Why is this hacking so significant? All of the 26 single-character handles on Twitter…
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Twitter Working on New Feature to Allow Users to Edit Tweets
from foxnews.com: Twitter is working on a new feature which will allow users to edit their tweets, the The Desk reported. Three sources who identified themselves as Twitter employees, revealed exclusively to The Desk that the social networking site has been working on a project that will allow users to make “slight changes” to the…
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#Twitter, #Facebook Demand Sweeping Changes to US #Surveillance
from theguardian.com: The world’s leading technology companies have united to demand sweeping changes to US surveillance laws, urging an international ban on bulk collection of data to help preserve the public’s “trust in the internet”. In their most concerted response yet to disclosures by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook,…
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Ex-NSA director gets a taste of his own eavesdropping
from msnbc.com: Former Bush National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden learned the hard way Thursday afternoon that you never know who’s listening. Hayden was on an Amtrak Acela train reportedly attempting to give an anonymous quote to a newspaper reporter disparaging the Obama administration’s handling of the fallout from revelations that the NSA spied on…
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Twitter Advertisers Say Service Needs More Users
from wsj.com: For some advertisers, 218 million people isn’t a big enough audience. That’s their message to Twitter Inc., which Thursday detailed plans for an initial public offering. Ad buyers say that the short-message service will need significantly more users, and a bigger sales force, to win more spending from their mass-market clients. “Scale still…
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How the cops watch your tweets in real-time
from arstechnica.com: Recent leaks about the NSA’s Internet spy programs have sparked renewed interest in government surveillance, though the leaks touch largely on a single form of such surveillance—the covert one. But so-called “open source intelligence” (OSINT) is also big business— and not just at the national/international level. New tools now mine everything from “the…
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Twitter Wants to Start Tracking You on the Web, Here’s How to Opt-Out
from LifeHacker.com: In a blog post today, Twitter announced that they’re “experimenting with new ways of targeting ads,” which is their way of saying they’re planning to track you around the web—even when you leave Twitter—and relay that information to advertisers to craft better ads. Here’s how to opt out. If this sounds familiar, it…
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Apple, Facebook, Twitter Hacks Said To Hail From Eastern Europe
While many security experts have been pointing the blame at China for the recent wave of cyberattacks on U.S. companies and newspapers, Bloomberg reports that some of the malware attacks actually may be coming from Eastern Europe.
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#DataDump: God Particle, Predictive Programming and more
CERN Physicists Claim Evidence of Higgs-Boson* Video: What is a Higgs Boson? – Physicist Michio Kaku Responds* Theorist Peter Higgs lives to see his boson* Video: Alan Alda’s ‘#Flame Challenge’ Illuminates Importance of Communicating #Science* Life Imitating Art: Robot Avatar Body Controlled By Thought* Video: Proof That ‘Predictive Programming’ Works* DNSChanger Could Leave Thousands Stranded…
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#DataDump: Infiltration, Asylum, Aircraft and More
Facebook To Buy Israeli Biometrics Startup Face.com For $100 Million // Face.com App Allowed Facebook, Twitter Account Hijacking // Researcher: CIA, NSA may have infiltrated Microsoft to write malware // NSA: It Would Violate Your Privacy to Say If We Spied on You // Apple fined more than $2m over 4G claim // Assange Seeks…
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#DataDump: Initial Solar Offering
Solar #Eclipse Blazes #RingOfFire’ This Weekend // FBI Wants Backdoors in Facebook, Skype and Instant Messaging // Billion-Dollar City Without Residents to be Built to Test New Technology // Rebekah Brooks charges take the phone-hacking scandal to a new level
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12/29 #defcon: ç¥∫´®ßπåç´∑å® – 404 file or directory not found
#2012 watch: the countdown begins* how the world might end in 2012 (or maybe later)* top 10 most bizarre tech stories of 2011* ten plotlines you’ll find in science fiction – over & over again* twin probes to orbit moon, study gravity field* sen. ron wyden leaps into middle of internet piracy fight* army ‘red…
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12/22 defcon: planets, tweets & patents
2 earth-size planets discovered orbiting star* darpa’s new spy satellite could provide real-time video from anywhere on earth* taliban, US military waging war via twitter: report* twitter use by shabab in somalia incites US* apple wins partial victory on patent claim over android*
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9/15 Defcon: Virgin, Havoc & White Space
Virgin aims for first space launch within a year // US military plane forced to land after North Korean electronic attack in March // Netflix for books? Amazon is considering // Google purchases Big Blue patents to defend Android // Twin Towers on Mars