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Twitter is rolling out a pair of changes to the way users access the service through third-party applications, including one tweak that could spark some privacy concerns. In an e-mail sent to members this week, Twitter explained that the changes are broadly meant to improve security on the site. By the end of the year, Twitter plans to roll out its link-shortening service, t.co, across the site, meaning that every Web address shared on Twitter or its third-party applications will be wrapp...

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Watch For Mysterious Data Usage On Your iPhone By Chris Walters on September 1, 2010 12:30 PM If you're on one of AT&T's limited data plans, you'd better start carefully monitoring the data usage, because some customers are noticing unexplainable daily hits on their accounts. The support forums at Apple are filled with pages of theories and complaints from frustrated customers, but our tipster David got the following admission directly from an AT&T rep: "She told me ...

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Last year, there was discussion of Google Code, a site which allows developers to host their projects, being used to spread malware. We have now found yet another case where Google Code is being used to spread malware. According to Google Code site, “Project Hosting on Google Code provides a free collaborative development environment for open source projects. Each project comes with its own member controls, Subversion/Mercurial repository, issue tracker, wiki pages, and downloads section. Our...

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AVG Technologies, developers of the world’s most popular free anti-virus software, today announced a limited public beta test of its new online tool, AVG Threat Labs. Designed to help consumers combat criminal elements on the Web, Threat Labs is an innovative online information portal that merges the quantitative Web threat detection data that AVG routinely collects from its almost 100 million users with data from AVG’s LinkScanner technology. AVG users with LinkScanner already installed are...

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I don't listen to music, but this is cool (but probably easy to lose!) The new Shuffle

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There has recently been a lot of focus on a remote attack vector for exploiting an old class of vulnerabilities. This is referred to as: Insecure library loading Secunia Research is closely monitoring discoveries of new vulnerabilities related to this issue and releasing verified Secunia advisories. This information is summarised here by providing a complete overview of the recent developments on affected programs and vendors. http://secunia.com/a...ibrary_loading/

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A decade-old backdoor in Apple's QuickTime media player allows someone to completely take over or run malicious code on a Windows 7 machine, according to The Register. The weird backdoor is an unused parameter called " _Marshaled_pUnk," which has been around since 2001, and was originally used to draw contents in the current QuickTime window without opening a new one. The function is gone now, but that line of code was never deleted. http://www.downloads...achines-ancien/

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Google has updated Gmail with a feature that aims to reduce information overload in e-mail inboxes. Called priority inbox it automatically grades e-mail into four categories: important, important and unread, starred items and everything else. Experts believe less time sifting through e-mail will make people more productive. Google said the product acts like your "personal assistant helping you focus on the messages that matter". "There are a lot of signals in any message that...

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The privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network. http://www.joindiaspora.com/index.html

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Google has listed Cableforum.co.uk as a reported attack site. Surely a mistake?

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