Cautionary tale: Man used Facebook to hack women's emails

Seeded on Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:55 PM EST (The Sydney Morning Herald)

A California man has admitted using personal information he gleaned from Facebook to hack into women's email accounts, then send nude pictures of them to everyone in their address book.

technology, crime, facebook, cyber-crime

News Corp. Considering MySpace Sale

Seeded on Thu Jan 13, 2011 6:32 PM EST (PC Magazine)

Seeded by Vanessa Wilson

It's not a good week to be a MySpace employee. Just a day after it was announced that MySpace would lay off nearly half its staff, News Corp. admitted it's considering selling the site.

technology, myspace, rupert-murdoch, news-corporation

Google's Android more vulnerable to viruses than Apple's iOS

Seeded on Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:47 PM EST (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Seeded by Vanessa Wilson

Google's Android operating system for mobile devices is more vulnerable to hackers and viruses than Apple's iPhone platform, according to security software maker Trend Micro.

technology, google, hackers, google-android, mobile-security

7 Cyber Crime Facts Businesses Need To Know

Seeded on Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:11 PM EST (PC World)

Seeded by Vanessa Wilson

The bad guys are getting smarter.

technology, crime, cyber-crime, chief-risk-officer, crime-trends, it-risk-management

Top mobile apps attracting more than 300 million downloads each day

Seeded on Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:54 PM EST (Independent.co.uk)

Seeded by Vanessa Wilson

The top 300 free applications in the US in app stores generated, on average, more than 300 million downloads per day in December 2010.

technology, internet, angry-birds, mobile-applications, apple-app-store, nokia-ovi-store, apple-google-android-market

Cloud computing a 'superhighway for cyber crime'

Seeded on Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:03 PM EST ()

Seeded by Vanessa Wilson

Narus Inc. listed the top 10 "cyber threat trends" for 2011 and beyond, warning in particular that the popularity of distributed or "cloud" computing has created a "superhighway for cyber crime."

technology, crime, san-francisco, cloud-computing, cyber-crime, crime-trends

Samsung Move From 3D To Internet TV's For 2011

Seeded on Tue Jan 4, 2011 6:12 PM EST (Smart House)

Seeded by Vanessa Wilson

Samsung Electronics who this time last year was telling us that the next big thing was 3D TV is set to start promoting Internet content TV's with a swag of new IP enabled TV's set to be revealed at the CES Show in Las Vegas that starts this week.

technology, internet-tv, 3d-tv, samsung-electronics

Artificial intelligence to transform web: Russian tycoon

Seeded on Tue Dec 28, 2010 6:20 PM EST (Google)

Seeded by Vanessa Wilson

The emergence of artificial intelligence is to transform the Internet industry and social networking over the next decade, Russia's leading web tycoon said in an interview on Tuesday.

technology, internet, artificial-intelligence, alisher-usmanov