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46% of users happy to reveal all to complete strangers IT security and data protection firm Sophos has released the results of its latest probe into how easy it is to steal identities via Facebook. Sophos created two fictitious users with names based...
Tags: Sophos, social networking, Paul Ducklin, networking sites, identities thieves, Daisy Felettin, Australia, Sydney, Identity theft, Click, Technology Internet, Facebook, Online social networking, Social network service
South Carolina legislators are discussing changes to a state jobless benefit system that's now borrowed $634 million to keep weekly checks paid. Members of the House panel said Wednesday they want to make sure people who fail drug tests can't get benefits.
Tags: Columbia, Labor, Web 2.0, Unemployment benefits, Finance, Unemployment, Social information processing, Business Finance, Social Issues, Technology Internet, Facebook, Insurance, Blog hosting services, Boardwalk, Social media, Footpaths, Vaught, Online social networking, Social network service, Twitter
A 41-year-old part-time dance instructor and graphic designer from Santa Cruz is the face of a class-action lawsuit designed to force Web sites that offer social gaming to rein in what she calls deceptive ads...District Court in San Francisco, Rebecca...
Tags: Zynga Game Network, Font Resize Santa Cruz, suit claims, Rebecca Swift, Bolivia, Santa Cruz, Virtual economy, Zynga, Advertising, Facebook, Online social networking
Here's some stuff that happened in other corners of the Internet today: A lion, a tiger, and a bear...So cute it could kill you, literally. ( Tabloid Prodigy ) Someone has taken it upon themselves to use Autotune to make sense of this strange year that...
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Tenn. — A Tennessee mayor is apologizing for writing on his Facebook page that President Barack Obama deliberately timed a speech last week to block the "Peanuts" Christmas special. Russell Wiseman, mayor of the Memphis suburb of Arlington, also said...
Tags: Barack Obama, Tennessee, Seattle, Web 2.0, Social media, Politics, Social information processing, Blog software, Facebook, Human Interest
Scammers keep finding new ways to make their fraud schemes just barely credible. Fortunately for a pair of Chesterton residents, the schemes weren�t quite credible enough, Chesterton Police said. The first would-be scheme was reported on Monday, when...
Tags: Chesterton Police, Mr. Green, Chesterton, Resident Evil, Advance-fee fraud, Tort law, Fraud, Deception, Crimes, Facebook, Social engineering
The details that Ojas has put on Facebook included his birthdate as June 7, 1988...This is probably because one has to be above 18 years to join Facebook. The class IX student who was on his way to school had uploaded 208 photographs...In several photographs,...
Tags: Ojas Mehta, little man, India, Mumbai, Web 2.0, Blog software, Social information processing, Ojas, Facebook, Online social networking, Human Interest, Dhirubhai Ambani
The year 2009 will be remembered as the year that social media outlets emerged from obscurity and vaulted into mainstream acceptance to the great delight of hipsters worldwide. The explosive growth of social networking sites such as YouTube, Facebook,...
Tags: Social Media, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Myspace, News Corp
On Monday, I received an email from American Express telling me that my online merchant account statement was ready. Fine. That's a legitimate email. However, almost on the heels of that email, I received a second email which said: Dear American Express...
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HelloHello.net by Anthony Intini III I would be remiss if I did not take a few minutes of your time to tell you about the new global social business network marketing portal called hellohello.net. This new network will, without doubt,...
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