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Doug Peterson

Mat Honan details the Amazon and Apple security flaws that let hackers wipe his MacBook... - 0 views

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    "Late Friday, Wired writer Mat Honan ran into a digital buzzsaw as his iCloud, Gmail and Twitter accounts were compromised in rapid succession. The hackers did a tremendous amount of collateral damage along the way, spewing racist and homophobic tweets on Honan's account plus the Gizmodo Twitter account (linked to his). Worse, they proceeded to wipe all the data from his iPhone, iPad and his Mac laptop via Find My iPhone and Find My Mac."
Doug Peterson

How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views

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    "In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used it to remotely erase all of the data on my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook."
Doug Peterson

How the US Justice Department legally hacked my Twitter account | Birgitta Jó... - 0 views

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    Birgitta Jónsdóttir's Twitter account: a US court has ruled that Twitter must comply with a Department of Justice demand to release private data held by the social media company, which it seeks as part of its investigation into WikiLeaks. Photograph: guardiannews.com
Doug Peterson

Digital Society » Blog Archive » Online services security report card - 0 views

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    A lot of website security awareness has been raised over the last week since the release of a simple-to-use website user account hijacking tool called FireSheep.  The tool gives attackers temporary full access to your web accounts like Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft Hotmail.
Doug Peterson

600,000+ compromised account logins every day on Facebook, official figures reveal | Na... - 0 views

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    New official statistics revealed by the social networking giant reveal that 0.06% of the more than billion logins that they have each day are compromised. Put another way, that's more than 600,000 per day - or, if you really like to make your mind melt, one every 14 milliseconds.
tech vedic

Intuit Quicken for Mac users - 0 views

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    "Personal finance software. With easy interface, it lets users to track the entire financial structure successfully. Its speed depends upon the number of financial accounts you are tracking at a time. As all the aspects of this software are bright and colorful thus it makes it more pleasant to use and explore. http://rigviews.com/product-review/intuit-quicken-essentials-for-mac/" By-The Xpert Crew @ http://techvedic.com https://www.facebook.com/techvedicinc https://twitter.com/techvedicinc http://pinterest.com/techvedic1 http://techvedicinc.tumblr.com/ https://plus.google.com/u/0/110467075169904075419/
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Top 5 tips you must know to stay safe on social networking sites - 0 views

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    Soaring mobile Internet penetration has given new success dimension to the social network usage. Facebook, has recently reviled that 488 million users regularly use Facebook mobile, and a leading digital media firm Socialnomics has admitted that 23 percent of Facebook's users check their account 5 or more times daily. But a sad news is that, taking clues of the popularity, Internet attackers have targeted 54% of Social Networking Customers, claimed Barracuda Networks, a web security company.
Peter Beens

How to Learn to Code for Free | PCWorld - 0 views

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    In days gone by, all you needed to make a website was a Geocities account and some basic knowledge of HTML. Maybe you'd throw in a bit of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) if you wanted to get fancy. Times have changed, though, and now people build websites using at least one advanced coding language. Programming is a noble pursuit, but if you want to build apps and services for the Web, you need to learn one of these popular languages
Doug Peterson

CaptureToCloud - Capture, Organize, Share, Your Digital Content - 1 views

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    Capture all your important digital content (web pages, images, text, articles, email, bookmarks, etc.) and organize it in your personal cloud, accessible from anywhere.
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    Reminds me of the Net Snippets program I used to use. I wonder if it's using your Google Docs account to store the content. I wish they had more details on the website, and how much the premium account will cost. It would be nice to see an academic discount, or that they make it free for teachers & students.
Doug Peterson

This 13 Year Old App Developer Puts Us All To Shame | Cult of Mac - 1 views

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    "Last year, Nicholas G. was 12-years-old. He convinced his dad to get him a developer account from Apple, and began to learn how to program apps. Nicholas is now 13, and the second update to his first app, Quick Notes!!, is out on the App Store. Version 1.0, says Nicholas, has already accrued over 3,000 downloads. How many downloads did your app have when you were 13? Mine didn't have any. It still doesn't."
Doug Peterson

Inventor encrypts tweets to evade govt - Computers: PC, Mac, Laptop, Desktop, Tablet & ... - 2 views

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    Sydney-based inventor Mark Pesce has developed a way to use public key cryptography over private Twitter messages in response to the social media site providing the US Department of Justice (DOJ) access to user accounts last year.
tech vedic

KEYS TO A SECURE PASSWORD - 0 views

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    Are you in a habit of using short or same passwords? Then change it now. Online world is becoming risky day by day. Hackers are always ready to hack your account and thus, it is your responsibility to protect yourself against cyber-crimes. We are providing you important tips to create strong as well as secure password.
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Use Onefeed to replace your New Tab page in Chrome - 0 views

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    Want to add information on your new Tab page in Chrome? Here is a solution with OneFeed. With OneFeed, you can add custom newsfeed as well as get alerts from your social media accounts.
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Regain your PC's administrator rights, even if you don't have the password - 0 views

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    Forgot the password of your Windows PC administrator level account? This hampers your work a lot. This tutorial can give access to it.
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How to retrieve forgotten Email Account Password Stored in Your Desktop Email Client? - 0 views

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    A desktop email client is a better place to keep a backup of your emails as you can use them offline as well as type and save emails to send later. There is a case where you may use few extra IDs to register at forums, websites, etc. But, what happen if you will forget one of your IDs which you have used long time back. Well, in that case you need to recover your password.
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How to create audiobooks in iTunes? - 0 views

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    Digital audiobooks can be purchased online including Audible, eMusic, and iTunes. iTunes keeps audiobooks separate from your music library so as to make them easier to find. Also, it allows you to adjust the playback speed of the file as well as resume from the previously played chapter where it left. Just by tuning few settings, you can ready your iTunes and iPod to recognize any audio file or group of audio files as an audiobook.
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Hackers use bogus Chrome, Firefox extensions to pilfer social media accounts - 0 views

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    Hacking cases are increasing day by day. There are several tricks played by hackers to steal your personal information online.
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Why cant I change the Windows 8 lock-screen background? - 0 views

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    Windows 8's lock-screen is not just a background image; it holds widgets that display quick notifications related to incoming emails, upcoming appointments and social updates. With the customized lock-screen, information pertaining to weather and more is at your finger-tips.
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How to hide, show or set permissions for your email id in your Facebook Account Profile... - 0 views

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    Facebook offers you a special domain email ID as username @facebook.com. However, with a bid to popularize the Facebook ID, it has taken a stringent action, which may not be acceptable to all. What's that? In the profile page you may notice the replacement of your original email ID with the newly introduced one. If the change doesn't interest you then go ahead.
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