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Cybercriminals are increasingly focussing on money, a new report suggests, and improved organisation means that “toolkits” have been developed to methodically infect PCs so that illegally obtained information can be bought and sold. In a survey by security firm AVG, 165 internet domains were found to have attacked 12 million visitors over the course of two months. More than 1.2 million computers were subsequently infected. The research looked at criminals using the so called “Eleonore toolkit”, … Read entire article »

Google, which bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006, said the move to Google account logins would optional at first, but would later become mandatory. Between 2006 and May 2009, YouTube users could sign up to the site using one of two systems: the original, pre-acquisition account system, or the Google account system. From May 2009 onwards, Google required all new YouTube users to sign in using a Google account. Brett Hobbs, a software engineer at … Read entire article »

Facebook’s privacy policy is a whopping 5,830 words long. As the New York Times recently pointed out, the Constitution of the United States is just 4,543. In recent months, Facebook has made revisions to its privacy policy that makes a growing amount of information public by default; users must opt out if they want to keep their information private, or share it only with a trusted group of friends. The changes have caused something of a … Read entire article »

Microsoft Outlook will now integrate with Facebook, MSN Messenger, MySpace and LinkedIn, giving users access to a social version of email. The move aims to put Outlook, Microsoft’s premium email product, on a par with its web-based rivals, including Microsoft’s own Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and Gmail, which already include chat capabilities. Last year, Microsoft launched the Outlook Social Connector plugin, which synchronises social networking feeds with Outlook contacts. The new Facebook integration includes pictures for contacts, … Read entire article »

Young women are becoming increasingly addicted and dependent upon social networks according to a study conducted by Oxygen Media and Lightspeed Research. The study polled the habits of 1,605 adults using social media between May and June 2010 in an effort to chart behavioural trends. Twenty-one per cent of women aged between 18 to 34 check Facebook in the middle of the night, while 42 per cent of the same group think it is fine … Read entire article »