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Web Criminals Head to Twitter

Via SecurityProPortals.com

Well, with any service that gets popular around the internet, there’s bound to be some hackers included in that population. The same stands for Twitter. Kaspersky Labs discovered a fake profile of the Brazilian Celebrity, Kelly Kelly, that promises to link you to hot Brazilian girls, but instead sends you to a malicious application. It’s disguised as Adobe Flash player, however it’s a fake version of it and you have to install it to “see” the “videos.” Additionally, instead of just getting one Trojan out of this, the victim’s machine gets slammed with ten, that are all desguised as MP3 files.

So basically, we can only expect more of these profiles to pop up unless Twitter can possibly do something against this.. which does not seem much likely, sadly.

Tags: hacking, Trojans, Twitter, Virus

Internet Explorer 8 to launch by the end of ‘08

A Microsoft blogger, Mary Jo Foley has “spilt-the-beans” as hip kids say, about the deadline for the finished product that is Eye-EEEEE-Eight. It’s kinda funny actually… Internet Explorer Eight… Two-Thousand-and-Eight… okay no, I just suck.

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Tags: Internet Explorer, Microsoft

Microsoft Lies to Users— and they start to love Vista?

Microsoft has developed a master plan to inspire people to switch over to Windows Vista by lying. What else is new?

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Tags: Fail, Microsoft, vista, windows, XP

A Tour of the “New” Facebook

As I just stated earlier, Facebook has given users the option to switch over to the new version of their site. I decided I would and then throw up a little introduction here for you guys.

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Tags: facebook

Try out the “new” Facebook

Facebook has released a message to all of those who have subscribed to the Facebook Profiles Preview page announcing that the new long-awaited profile designs are now available to those who want to try it out. Pretty much like a Public-Beta. After the next few weeks, they’ll be switching the entire site over to the new design, regardless of whether you want it or not. If you’d like to switch over now (you’ll still have the option to switch back to the old version for the time being if you wish) you can visit: http://www.new.facebook.com.

Tags: facebook

Wordpress 2.6 is Available

Version 2.6 of Wordpress is now available at http://wordpress.org. They’ve added a couple of snazzy new features in including:

• Post revisions
• Press This! (Post from anywhere on the web)
• Shift:Gears
• Theme Previews
• Wordcount
• Image Captions
• 192 Bug Fixed
• And More!

Might as well just check out their announcement on the site for yourself. Click!

Tags: blogging, Freeware, wordpress

Viacom holds back on YouTube user Histories

Viacom has backed off on an order made to YouTube to hand over all the viewing histories for their users; Twelve Terabytes of data. The information would include what users, their IP addresses, what videos they watched and all that type of stuff. Blogs around the net predicted this would be to only hunt down and sue individual users for watching copyrighted videos online.

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Tags: google, Viacom, Youtube

Need to know when the planet’s Destroyed?

The International Earth-Destruction Advisory Board has got you covered! They’re a skilled team of experts working around the clock to make sure the Earth still exists and will alert you when the Earth is destroyed.

I’d advise signging up for updates; it should be everyone’s top concern that their home planet still exists.

• Looking to Destroy The Earth? (Video)
• Why Destroy The Earth?

Have fun.

Microsoft Re-Releases Security Fix

Microsoft has re-issued a security patch that was released earlier this month for it was quite… innefective…

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Goog-411 Now In Canada!

Now Canadians have the right to know where the closest Pizza Parlour is and order for delivery as well, because Goog-411 is now available in Canada! For those of you who’ve never heard of Goog-411 (1-800-GOOG-411) it’s a Google service for your telephone, where-as you dial the number, say your location and what you’re looking for. Then it’ll return a list of businesses that matched your criteria and they’ll forward you via phone to the business you want.

So now you’ll never go hungry, even if you’re in Canada!

Tags: business, communications, goog-411, google, Phones