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Jul
14

How To Check If Your Email Was Affected By The Yahoo Breach

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Check Yahoo Email, Check Yahoo Password, Commonly-Used-Passwords, gmail, Hotmail, LinkedIn, Most-Commonly-Used-Passwords, New York Times, Password, Passwords, Security, User (computing), yahoo, Yahoo Email, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Mail Password, Yahoo Password, Yahoo Security Leak Leave a Comment

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More details are surfacing about the security breach at Yahoo that led to approximately 450,000 account logins and passwords being revealed online in plain text, including the fact that thousands of accounts with other services — Gmail and Hotmail among them — may also be exposed.

So how can you tell if you’re among the hacked? Tech Crunch has pointed to the security source Securi, a web monitoring site, where users can verify whether they’re among the victims of the leak.

Click here to visit Securi and see if your own information was compromised.

Google Account Activity Feature Lets You Monitor Your Usage

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Account Activity, Account Activity Google, gmail, google, Google Account, Google Account Activity, Google Accounts, Google Latitude, Product manager, User (computing), Verge, youtube Leave a Comment

Just several weeks after Google’s controversial privacy policy changes went into effect on March 1, the company has

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announced the arrival of a new feature called Account Activity.

According to a March 28 blog post by product manager Andreas Tuerk, this new offering will send you a monthly password-protected report laying out information such as log-in, email, and web search activity — essentially a collection of user dataGoogle has stored and is now sharing across many of its services, a move thatconcerned some consumer groups and users.

According to The Verge, the new feature works with both regular Gmail accounts and Google Apps users with custom domain names.

What To Do If Your Twitter Account Gets Hacked

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Application programming interface, Braylon Edwards, Help Center, Instagram, iPhone, Password, Social networks, Spam, twitter, Twitter Account Compromised, Twitter Hack, Twitter Hacked, Twitter Help, Twitter Troubleshooting, Uniform Resource Locator, URL shortening, User (computing), Video Leave a Comment

Spamming your Twitter followers with links to diet sites, specious videos, or links to “pics”? You’re not alone.

From the slew of sketchy Direct Messages we’ve received from our followers and the numerous apologies popping up in our Twitter timeline, it seems that a large number of Twitter users have been compromised by spammers who are hijacking their accounts to share links to malicious sites.

What can you do if your account has been hacked? Twitter’s Help Center has a helpful guide to four steps you should take (Visit Twitter’s Help Center for more detailed instructions).

First, change your password by selecting “Settings” from the dropdown menu next to your account name, which is listed on the top right on Twitter.com, then navigating to the “Password” tab.

Another Korean data breach – GOMTV.NET spills user account data, including passwords

Category: Social, Technology Tags: breach, Confidence trick, Cyworld, Data breach, data leakage, gom, GOM Player, gomtv, gretech, hash, korea, Nate, OpenBSD, Password, paypal, pii, PlayStation Network, South Korea, User (computing), Vulnerability Leave a Comment

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Another South Korean service provider has reported a large-scale data breach, leaking usernames and passwords for subscribers worldwide.

Late last month, cybercrooks made off with the personal information of up to 35,000,000 users of popular Korean sites Nate and Cyworld.

This time, it’s the turn of Seoul-based streaming media service GOMTV to suffer a data-spilling intrusion.

(That’s ‘GOM TV’, where GOM means Gretech Online Movies, not ‘GO MTV’, where MTV means Music Television. Gretech Corporation is the Korean legal entity which sets the terms and conditions and the privacy policy to which you agree when you sign up for GOM TV.)

Twitter finally released a “Stalkers” app? No, it’s a phishing scam

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Confidence trick, gmail, Hotmail, KeePass, Password, paypal, Phishing, Privacy, Spam, stalkers, twitter, Uniform Resource Locator, User (computing) 1 Comment

Twitter users are being hit today by messages claiming to link to a new app from Twitter which will track your stalkers.

However, the messages are really designed to steal your Twitter usernames and passwords.

Here’s a typical message that users are seeing:

Twitter finally released an app that tracks your "Stalkers" get it here [LINK]

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Aug
11

By pratyushkp

Twitter Announces New Features For Sorting Followers’ Tweets

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Activity Stream, new features, New Twitter Features, Online Communities, social network, Stream, The Next Web, Trending and Popularity, Tweetdeck, twitter, Twitter New Features, Twitter New Tabs, User (computing) Leave a Comment

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Twitter is in the process of that will helps you sort and view what users are saying about you and what is important to users within your network.

The changes are coming to the selection of tabbed streams (located under Twitter.com‘s tweet box), which let you isolate specific information from the main realtime tweet stream. Twitter will push more content to your @Mentions stream, which will now be called the @Username tab and will display your personal Twitter handle when it rolls out to your account. The site is also adding a new stream, which will live under a tab titled “Activity.”

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