One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Facebook — for rich people (for just $9,000).
“I saw a need for an environment where you could talk about the finer things in life without backlash — an environment where people could share similar likes and experiences,” he said.
The hefty initiation fee, he said, “ensures that our membership remains exclusive, but also private.”
Source: CNN
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Krebs on Security published an article titled LinkedIn Feature Exposes Email Addresses.
LinkedIn’s entire social fabric begins to unravel if any user can directly connect to any other user, regardless of whether or how their social or professional circles overlap. Unfortunately for LinkedIn (and its users who wish to have their email addresses kept private), this is the exact risk introduced by the company’s built-in efforts to expand the social network’s user base.
According to researchers at the Seattle, Wash.-based firm Rhino Security Labs, at the crux of the issue is LinkedIn’s penchant for making sure you’re as connected as you possibly can be. When you sign up for a new account, for example, the service asks if you’d like to check your contacts lists at other online services (such as Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.). The service does this so that you can connect with any email contacts that are already on LinkedIn, and so that LinkedIn can send invitations to your contacts who aren’t already users.
Source: Krebs on Security
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The BBC published an article titled Two guilty over match.com dating site scam.
Two men have been convicted for their roles in a scam to con 12 women out of nearly £250,000 via a dating website.
Winchester Crown Court heard the fictional “James Richards” told women using match.com he needed money to release a £100m inheritance in India.
One victim handed over £174,000.
Peter Monty Emu, 28, of Portsmouth, and Adewunmi Nusi, 27, of Hermitage, Berkshire, were convicted of money laundering. Chukwuka Ugwu, 28, and Emmanuel Oko admitted the same charge.
Source: BBC
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. AL.com published an article titled Teens take note, woman charged with homicide after Facebook while driving.
Abby Sletten, 20, faces a charge of negligent homicide in the death of a great-grandmother in North Dakota, according to CNN.com.
Sletten was traveling at 85 mph while surfing Facebook when she rear-ended an SUV according to the report.
Source: AL.com
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Teachers texting students through a safe app.
“I really like the app. It goes out about 6:00 in the evening when everyone is home from practice and everyone is home from work and getting started with their evening activities and then they get the text about homework. Given all the boundary situations, it is good safe way to do things,” said Lisa Crownover, a teacher at Wetumpka High School who also uses the app.
After so many alleged inappropriate relationships, the app serves as a safe haven and eliminates any excuse for a teacher or student to personally contact each other. It conceals phone numbers and those receiving the texts can’t even respond.
Source: WSFA
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled CAUGHT ON VIDEO: Teen with autism victimized in disgusting ALS ice challenge prank.
Ready to complete the ALS ice bucket challenge, a local teen waits to feel the shock of cold water, but what was poured on him instead has shocked the community.
Bay Village Police are investigating a group of teens accused of playing a cruel joke on a classmate who has autism. Authorities say the victim is a 14-year-old boy.
The teens allegedly convinced the victim to do the ALS ice bucket challenge, but instead of dumping water and ice on the teen, they chose to fill the bucket with feces, urine, cigarette butts and spit.
Source: WSFA
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Facebook’s autoplay video feature is destroying cell phone bills.
Want to save money on your phone bill? Make sure you turn off the “autoplay” setting on Facebook videos.
Smartphone users are at risk of maxing out their data plans if they don’t change this default setting in the Facebook app, which otherwise will automatically start streaming videos in the News Feed window.
Source: CNN
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Naked celeb hack lesson: ‘Delete’ doesn’t mean delete.
The naked photo you took on your phone — and deleted — is still around, somewhere.
That’s the reality today because of how modern phones, tablets and laptops save your data. By default, photos and documents don’t reside on your device alone.
They’re routinely “backed up to the cloud.” That means they’re quietly copied onto a company’s computer servers. Your embarrassing selfie lives on half a dozen machines in North America and Europe.
Source: CNN
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Ars Technica published an article titled Update: What Jennifer Lawrence can teach you about cloud security.
This breach appears different from other recent celebrity “hacks” in that it used a near-zero-day vulnerability in an Apple cloud interface. Instead of using social engineering or some low-tech research to gain control of the victims’ cloud accounts, the attacker basically bashed in the front door—and Apple didn’t find out until the attack was over. While an unusual, long, convoluted password may have prevented the attack from being successful, the only real defense against this assault was never to put photos in Apple’s cloud in the first place. Even Apple’s two-factor authentication would not have helped, if the attack was the one now being investigated.
Source: Ars Technica
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. SC Magazine published an article titled California Assembly passes first student online privacy bill.
California’s Assembly unanimously passed the nation’s first-ever K-12 student online privacy measure that would prohibit the use of students’ personal information for profit.
Source: SC Magazine
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