How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication on Twitter (And Everywhere Else)
Twitter rolled out two-factor authentication last week, joining a growing group of tech companies to support the important security feature. Two-factor authentication can help mitigate the damage of a password breach or phishing attack.
Hacking overshadows closer US-China military ties
U.S. National Security Adviser has pushed for stronger military relations with China as part of preparations for a Summit
Anonymous Hacker Pleads Guilty to Stratfor Breach
Another Anonymous hacker has surrendered to the long arm of justice. Jeremy Hammond, 28, a political activist and hacker, pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge for breaching the servers of the U.S. private intelligence firm Stratfor and passing its internal files to Wikileaks
Hammond’s decision was announced on his defense and support website “Free Jeremy Hammond.”
Anonymous Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Pleads Guilty to Stratfor Attack
At a time when the word “hacktivist” is routinely used to describe random brigands and petty vandals, Jeremy Hammond stands out as the real deal. Today, the 28-year-old Chicagoan pleaded guilty to conspiring in the keystone attack of the short-lived Lulzsec/AntiSec era, a damaging December 2011 intrusion into the servers of the private intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting, Inc.
English Defence League hacked by Anonymous
The Sun
NAMES and personal details of English Defence League members have been leaked online by a group of hackers. Information on the far-right hate mob, including names, addresses and phone numbers, has been published by the computer group
Anonymous hackers vow revenge on EDL
Press TV
The hackers group Anonymous says they will make the far-right English Defense League pay for their taking advantage of the murder of a British soldier in London to spread hatred and animosity toward Muslims. Anonymous said the EDL have unleashed
Connecting personal
data to create and use profiles has become an important challenge for individuals?
rights and freedoms. Profiling enables companies as well as public authorities
to determine, analyze or predict peoples? personality or aspects of their
personality ? especially their behaviour, interests and habits. Furthermore,
people usually do not know that and to what extent they are
The world learned in 2011 that a U.S. company’s Internet censorship and surveillance technology is in the hands of the Syrian government. This was notable because Syria is under heavy sanctions by the U.S. government?meaning there?s no way that it was legal for Syria to end up with this American-made hardware and software. While the tech firm, Blue Coat Systems, initially denied knowledge of the sale (which was uncovered by activists at Telecomix and elsewhere), the U.S. Department of Commerce nonetheless launched an investigation into how their equipment found its way into the country.
2013 Social Media Marketing Industry Report
Source: Social Media Examiner From Major Findings : Marketers place very high value on social media: A significant 86% of marketers indicate that social media is important for their business, up from 83% in 2012. Tactics and engagement are top areas marketers want to master: At least 88% of marketers
How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication on Twitter (And Everywhere Else)
Twitter rolled out two-factor authentication last week, joining a growing group of tech companies to support the important security feature. Two-factor authentication can help mitigate the damage of a password breach or phishing attack.
Social Media is the Ultimate Teenage Soapbox
A recent Pew Research Center Internet & American Life Project report that delved into teens, social media and privacy provides some interesting insight for digital marketers.
For digital marketers, there are valuable lessons to be learned from how Pew summarized its report:
?Teens are sharing more information about themselves on social media sites than they have in the past, but they are also taking a variety of technical and non-technical steps to manage the privacy of that information.
Despite taking these privacy-protective actions, teen social media users do not express a high level of concern about third-parties (such as businesses or advertisers) accessing their data; just 9% say they are ?very? concerned.?
Why Google really doesn?t care about tax
The group defends minimising its tax payments as meeting its legal obligations ? but it fails to be a good corporate citizen, says Philip Stephens
Wikimedia Foundation, the charitable organization behind Wikipedia and other online collaborative projects, has introduced a new Nearby page as it looks to surface articles based on a user?s location.
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