Hacking News & Cyber Updates: 17th Sept 3 PM

Twitter: The New Old Customer Service? Wired When I was a kid, I remember getting dragged along with my mom to the local JC Penney department store where she had a complaint about a broken toaster oven she'd recently purchased. After what seemed like some normal dialogue (“What's wrong with it ... See all stories on this topic »

PMO uses Twitter to highlight benefits due to reforms in last decade Times of India More than 60 million households got new electricity connections just in a decade," the PMO said on micro-blogging site Twitter. It also tweeted that more than 37 million households obtained liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and piped natural gas (PNG) ... See all stories on this topic »

Twitter and me (and you?) Glens Falls Post-Star (blog) I operate in the world of Twitter, but I do so in a novice kind of way. I know if I send out a "tweet," those of you who follow me will get it. The rest of it -- re-tweeting, responding to tweets, connecting to other tweeters, etc. -- I only partly ... See all stories on this topic » Twitter Might Be Looking To Kill Off Third Party Image Hosts Gizmodo Twitter Might Be Looking To Kill Off Third Party Image Hosts Twitter's big API changes have been causing all kinds of problems for third party Twitter clients, but they aren't the only ones affected byTwitter's new outlook on life. According to ... See all stories on this topic » The rise of LinkedIn's news feed (And how Twitter made a big dumb mistake) VentureBeat Back in July Twitter announced that it was no longer going to allow users to post tweets automatically to LinkedIn. Twitter gave us the usual gumpf about wanting to “provide the core Twitter user experience through a consistent set of products and tools”. See all stories on this topic » Domino's Is Funny On Twitter By Kim LaCapria It's not just Taco Bell that might sass back your tweets. The Inquisitr How to login using twitter using PHP and AJAX - Stack Overflow By 2lessons [1]: http://list.2lessons.com using twitter api. It works fine. But i want to implement the same using jQuery and AJAX so that page won't get refreshed on return. Following is my piece of code twitter/twitteroauth.php"); require ... Recent Questions - Stack Overflow Mark Zuckerberg's Win Win Facebook Tax Tips Forbes It's (still) hard not to get excited by all the zeros after Mark Zuckerberg's name. Yes, that's despite the fact that the long vaunted and much hyped Facebook IPO did a face plant. As with other visionary billionaires, when Mr. Zuckerberg talks, people ... See all stories on this topic » Bigamist busted: Alan O'Neill's first wife discovers second wife when Facebook ... New York Daily News Facebook status update: already married — twice. A Washington man pleaded guilty to bigamy after his wife learned he was married to a second woman by looking atFacebook's "people you may know" notification. The second woman's profile picture ... See all stories on this topic » Facebook's misery not spreading to Silicon Valley Bryan College Station Eagle FILE-In this Friday, May 11, 2012, file photo, a worker sits in the Facebook office in Menlo Park, Calif. Silicon Valley, it turns out, doesnÌt revolve around the stock prices of Facebook and its playful sidekick, Zynga. Instead, the optimism in ... See all stories on this topic » Facebook — stop the hype! The Southern For the past year, an overwhelming focus has been on the Facebook rollout and their disappointing returns. Honestly, I have never heard as much hype regarding any one stock, as I have heard withFacebook. In addition, I have been asked more questions ... See all stories on this topic » Our opinion: Are you your child's friend on Facebook? Dubuque Telegraph Herald Here's a quiz for parents: Does your child have a Facebook page? How about a Twitter account? For a surprising number of parents, the answers to those questions will be, "I don't know." Or, they might say, "No," unaware that their children are, indeed ... See all stories on this topic » Salman Khan joins Facebook, gets 2.7 million likes in one day Examiner.com It was reported on September 14, 2012, that Bollywood actor Salman Khan has officially joined Facebook and received 2.7 million likes in just 10 hours. Check Salman's page at https://www.facebook.com/BeingSalmanKhan. After the likes of Amitabh ... See all stories on this topic » Say no to Facebook's spybook Tehran Times Using Facebook Connect, and some other social plug-ins, Facebook can launch a cookie on any website that has a "like" or "share" button, which provides Facebook access to an amazing amount of user information, the Business Insider website reported on ... See all stories on this topic » Facebook shakes up engineering teams in mobile move San Francisco Luxury News An internet user looks at a Facebook page. AFP Facebook on Thursday said that it has shaken up its engineering teams to make targeting smartphones a top priority at the world's leading social network. “We have really just re-organised the company to ... See all stories on this topic » Hack an Ikea LED strip and control it with your smartphone Geek If you're one of those geeks in the world that is obsessed with being able to control their environment via a mobile device (and really, that's most people), then you'll want to take a look at this cool newhack that is depicted in the video above ... See all stories on this topic » Top 10 Ways To Modernise Your Retro Gadgets Lifehacker Australia ... into USB gamepads for use with any PC. Heck, if you're really adventurous, you could even hacka flash drive into the controller too, and store your favourite video games on it, so you can play those games no matter what computer you're sitting in ... See all stories on this topic » Top 10 Ways to Modernize Your Old, Retro Gadgets Lifehacker Top 10 Ways to Modernize Your Old, Retro Gadgets No gadget lasts forever, but that doesn't mean you can't turn it into something else and give your new tech an old school feel. Here are 10 awesome projects for bringing your old, retro gadgets into the ... See all stories on this topic » VPNReviewz CEO Looks at Recent UDID Leaks, How to Tell if You're Hacked ... Virtual-Strategy Magazine (press release) Recently an anonymous splinter group, AntiSec, announced that they had hacked an FBI laptop and found a file with more than 12 million Apple iOS UDIDs. The VPNReviewz CEO discusses the implications and what to do to find out if yours is on the list and ... See all stories on this topic » Brownsburg website hacked WISH TV Brownsburg website hacked. wish. Subscribe Subscribed Unsubscribe. Loading... 13,115 videos. Loading... Alert icon. You need Adobe Flash Player to watch this video. Download it from Adobe. Alert icon. Close. Upgrade to the latest Flash Player for ... See all stories on this topic » Pirate Bay co-founder remanded into custody The Local.se Svartholm Warg is suspected of having hacked into the IT security company Logica, which supplies several government agencies with information from the tax authority's public register, in March this year. “This is a serious incident. We have never ... See all stories on this topic » Churchill Downs wagering site hacked SC Magazine TwinSpires.com, the wagering site for customers of the Louisville, Ky.-based Churchill Downs racetrack, was hacked, exposing the personal information of account holders. How many victims? Churchill Downs has yet to disclose the number, though a ... See all stories on this topic » WhatsApp accounts almost completely unprotected The H Tests performed by The H's associates at heise Security have found that popular texting alternative WhatsApp is easily hacked using freely available tools. Anyone using WhatsApp on a public Wi-Fi network risks having their data sniffed and their ... See all stories on this topic » Want Better Security? Assume You've Already Been Hacked ... By Nimmy Reichenberg Would you do anything differently if you knew you were already hacked? If the answer is yes, why not be proactive and take those measures today? Assume you've been hacked – and now map out your security policy. SecurityWeek RSS Feed Speaker Manufacturing Tour - Hacked Gadgets – DIY Tech Blog By Alan Parekh Check out this cool tour through a speaker manufacturing plant. I am quite surprised to see how much manual labor is involved and how much wasted movement of parts and pieces goes on. With some thought behind the production line I ... Hacked Gadgets - DIY Tech Blog