One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Ars Technica published an article titled Flawed sign-in services from Google and Facebook imperil user accounts.

Account login services that implement applications from Google, Facebook, and other commercial providers are prone to flaws that allow adversaries unauthorized access to private user profiles on the third-party Websites that use them, a team of computer scientists has concluded.

Their 10-month study found that many SSO, or single sign-on, services supplied by IdPs or ID Providers including Google, Facebook, and PayPal weren’t properly integrated into Websites that used the services. As a result, private data on RP, or relying party, sites belonging to Farmville, Freelancer, Nasdaq, Sears, JanRain, and other sites were all vulnerable to snoops.

Source: Ars Technica

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. MSNBC published an article titled University professor helps FBI crack $70 million cybercrime ring.

So stealthy was their ZeuS operation, neither the hackers nor the mules had counted on getting caught. But, using complex data mining techniques, Prof. Warner established links between ZeuS-infected computers and traced the origins of the mass infection to Ukraine; and many of the hackers and their mules were caught.

But 18 mules remained at large in the United States. And after the FBI published a wanted poster of the students, Warner’s students began using what they’d learned in class to track the criminals.

Source: MSNBC

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel published an article titled Broward Facebook suspect won’t ‘like’ this.

“The nameplate is like only $40, not that big of a crime, but what an idiot. He puts it on Facebook,” said Broward County Sheriff Al Lamberti. “Here he is flaunting it on Facebook. He violated the terms of his parole by stealing, from a judge no less. He’s got multiple convictions for petty theft, so now this is a felony.”

Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Fox News published an article titled Facebook ‘friend’ offer exposes man’s other wife.

Wife No. 1 found out about Wife No. 2 when Facebook detected their connection to O’Neill and suggested the friendship connection.

Source: Fox News

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. TODAYMoms published an article titled Teen girls ask the Internet, ‘Am I ugly?’.

In the latest news that will make parents of teenage girls want to shoot their computers and/or become Amish, teen and tween girls are taking to YouTube to post “Am I ugly?” videos, asking the denizens of the Internet whether they are attractive. Because really, who better to reassure insecure young girls about their self-worth than anonymous Internet trolls? Yikes.

Source: TODAYMoms