Monday, September 17, 2012

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 ...
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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) ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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”.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, doesnÃŒt revolve around
the stock prices of Facebook and its playful sidekick, Zynga. Instead, the
optimism in ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Brownsburg website hacked
WISH TV
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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

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