Facebook Inc. said that a data broker has been paying application developers for identifying user information, and that it had placed some developers on a six-month suspension from its site because of the practice. The announcement, which Facebook made on its developers’ blog Friday, follows an investigation by Facebook into a privacy breach that...
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Start-ups and big companies alike have tried to take on Google by building a better search engine. That they have failed has not stopped brave new entrants. The latest is Blekko, a search engine that will open to the public on Monday. Rich Skrenta, Blekko’s co-founder and chief executive, says that since Google started,...
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SecureMac has positively identified a nefarious trojan horse that affects Mac OS X – including Snow Leopard (10.6) – the latest version of the popular operating system. The malignant malware, disguised as a video link, is quickly spreading by luring unsuspecting victims via e-mail and on social networking sites such as Facebook. “When a...
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The Stuxnet worm has already infected 30,000 IP addresses in Iran and is still mutating, according to Monday press reports. “The attack is still ongoing and new versions of this virus are spreading,” Hamid Alipour, deputy head of Iran’s Information Technology Company, was quoted as saying by IRNA, Iran’s official news agency, AFP reported....
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Popular file-sharing website LimeWire has been ordered to permanently shut down six months after a federal judge found it liable for copyright infringement on a “massive scale.” In an order Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood in Manhattan entered a permanent injunction, ordering the service to disable the searching, downloading, uploading or file trading...
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