The Facebook Virus Spreads: No Social Network is Safe Posted: 11 months ago by muppet
What's frightening about the spread of this Trojan is not the worm itself - it's really nothing new in terms of malware - but the way its being spread. Over the years people have learned to be suspicious of unknown links and attachments in their emails, so the virus writers turned to hit us where we're more vulnerable: on our social networks. Here, many people still have a feeling of comfort and security. They don't always have their guard up.
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New Koobface Worm Attacking Social Sites Posted: 9 months ago by bernardblack
There is a new variant of the Koobface worm which infects users of sites such as facebook, myspace, and others.
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Social sites reveal class divide Posted: 2 years ago by pjanaway
Fans of MySpace and Facebook are divided by much more than which music they like, suggests a study.
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Facebook on its way to being social superpower Posted: 4 months ago by Bornbad
Facebook was born in 2004 as a way for college students to connect with friends. But what does the Palo Alto social media giant want to be when it grows up?
*assbook?*
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Did Google just sneakily launch a Facebook killer? Posted: 7 months ago by bernardblack
Google now offers a portfolio feature you can edit to be displayed whenever people search for your name. What is the purpose of them being given so much information about you? Could it be for their own social network?
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Grateful Dead Fan Site to be Reborn as a Social Network Posted: 3 years ago by suebe
The new version of Dead.net, the fan site for Dead Heads, which is soon to be released, will be a full blown social network similar to Myspace.
Mershaullk, don't leave us!!!
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How is your Social Security money being spent? Posted: 5 months ago by Bornbad
Claiming they needed to learn how to reduce stress because of a growing number of death threats being made against them, nearly 700 executives from the Social Security Administration (SSA) gathered for a lavish three-day conference in Phoenix, AZ last week, costing taxpayers about $700,000.
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California Denies Social Security Benefits to Public Employees Posted: 7 months ago by suebe
As if being a teacher wasn't hard enough. Turns out you could lose your Social Security benefits if you turned to teaching.
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Social Security Numbers Gleaned From Public Data Posted: 5 months ago by Bingo
For years, government officials have urged people to protect their Social Security numbers by giving out the nine-digit codes only when absolutely necessary. Now it turns out that all the caution in the world may not be enough: New research shows that Social Security numbers can be predicted from publicly available birth information with a surprising degree of accuracy.
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Who says money can't buy friends? Posted: 3 years ago by 2manyusernames
New site offers (for a fee) to supply your myspace, facebook, or other social site with all the fake friends you want. You can have all the hottest and coolest friends your credit card will afford but would never speak to you in real life.
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Online Virus Scanner Posted: 2 years ago by Ross
Here's a link I had to look up for a friend today. It's an online service where you can upload a file you want to check and it will scan the file with 20 different virus scanners and give you what each one reports on the file. This was pretty helpful back when my brother ran a random .exe which happened to include over 30 viruses.
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Social Security Plan B Posted: 2 years ago by gammerus
"We’ve all heard proposals for “privatizing” the Social Security system. The best private solution, of course, is simply to allow the American people to keep more of their paychecks and invest for retirement as they see fit."
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Thomas Kostigen Knows Nothing About Social Media Posted: 3 years ago by msaleem
I read an article yesterday, blaming Digg for good stories being ignored. More than anything else, his argument shows that Thomas Kostigen has no clue what he is talking about when it comes to social media.
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Top 11 signs you're a Social Networking Loser Posted: 2 years ago by gratheo
Enjoy.
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Twitter Worm Attack Posted: 8 months ago by bullettime
Nearly 10,000 Twitter messages, known as "tweets," had to be deleted to contain the potential damage, but no personal or sensitive information was compromised in the attacks. A 17-year-old boy, who has admitted creating the virus that wreak havoc on Twitter over the weekend, is worried about being sued by the social networking site.
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That's £4,400 please... for a Masters degree in Facebook Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
If you thought online social networking was just an idle pastime, think again.
A university is to offer a Masters degree covering sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo.
Students will learn how to set up blogs and podcasts online and also how to use the sites in communications and marketing.
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Obama: I will tax more of your income for social security Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
Hardly surprising that a liberal democrat would want to tax more of your income. Of course reverting social security to something close to its original intent might help, but a plan like that wouldn't buy many votes from the entitlement-minded demographic.
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New Social Networking Site Launches Blog and Private Beta Signup Posted: 3 years ago by b40pixel
Mixxter.com, a new hip social networking site, has just launched their new blog and private beta signup publicly. Mixxter targets the MTV generation and, in turn, has turned to a more trendy style approach than its competitors.
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Report: Social networking sites could be bad for your health Posted: 10 months ago by hogstr
Social networking Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace may increase the risk of health problems as serious as cancer, strokes and dementia by altering the way genes work, according to a report in the Biologist journal.
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Social Networking Wars... Funniest Video I've seen in a while Posted: 1 year ago by carguy4life
Basically a cartoon version of what each social network is really like if they were a person. Hilarious
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Social networking dethrones porn as the hottest attraction on the Internet Posted: 1 year ago by tigertony
Users spend so much time on social networks that they don't have time to look at adult sites.
Gee, I think someone's been looking over our shoulder.
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