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Russian Linked With LinkedIn Hack Named

News Social Media October 26, 2016

29-year-old man’s arrest linked to 2012 professional social network security breach that saw over 150,000,000 user’s details being stolen. A Russian man has been charged with hacking and stealing information from computers at LinkedIn and other San Francisco Bay Area companies The US attorney’s office in San Francisco has announced that... Read more

Arrest Made In 2012 LinkedIn Breach

News Social Media October 20, 2016

Hacking and data breaches were once “needle in a haystack” crimes, with international efforts to track down and apprehend the culprits typically resulting in little to show for it. With better networking and technology to help with the legwork, law enforcement officials are having more and more success in... Read more

Workplace: Facebook’s New Business Software

News Social Media October 12, 2016

Everything your boss hates about Facebook–namely, employees constantly checking it on their phones while they’re supposed to be at work–just got rolled over into a new productivity package that the social media giant hopes to monetize in a big way. Workplace, Facebook’s subscription-based productivity software, has launched as a... Read more

YouTube Offers Reward To Community For Reporting Videos

News Social Media September 26, 2016

YouTube wants heroes! Yes, yes it does. No really, it does… This is the news that YouTube has decided to launch a new way of moderating the public content on the site by encouraging users to sign up and become a YouTube Hero… The announcement may come as something of... Read more

Google’s New Chat App Allo Is Here…But With Less Privacy Than Previously Advertised

News Social Media September 20, 2016

Say Hello to Allo, Google’s answer to WhatsApp, Viber and a host of other similar apps. It was only four months ago that Google announced two new communication apps; Duo for video calling, which launched last month, and Allo which is fresh on the market this week. And... Read more

Facebook Co-Founder Donates $20 million to Clinton Campaign

News Social Media September 12, 2016

Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of social media giant, Facebook, has given a ‘number of organisations’ a $20,000,000 boost for the sole purpose of helping Hillary Clinton defeat Donald Trump in the upcoming US presidential election. Announcing the multi million dollar contribution in a blog post on Medium, entitled “Compelled To Act“,... Read more

Facebook Changes WhatsApp Privacy Rules Despite Promises Not To

News Social Media August 30, 2016

Facebook’s hope that it could relax the privacy policy of WhatsApp, the world’s most popular messaging app, without kicking up a fuss, hasn’t worked, and has caused a worldwide backlash. When Facebook bought out WhatsApp for $19 billion back in 2014, the encrypted messaging app’s CEO Jan Koum said,... Read more

Instagram Launches “Stories,” And It’s No Snapchat

News Social Media August 24, 2016

Okay, that headline was mildly misleading. Instagram has launched its very own Stories option (literally, as in, it’s actually called Stories) just like Snapchat, and in almost every way, it works and functions exactly like Snapchat. It’s so much like Snapchat, in fact, that it didn’t bother coming up... Read more

AdBlock Plus: Facebook ad block bypassing is ‘anti user.’

Internet News Social Media August 11, 2016

AdBlock Plus has reacted to the news that Facebook is to prevent ad blocking software from working on the desktop version of its social media site by labelling Facebook as ‘anti-user.’ We already published a story here this week about Facebook’s intentions to prevent adblockers from working on PCs... Read more

Data Mining Social Media For Science

News Social Media July 21, 2016

What do whale sharks, NASA’s Hubble Telescope, and your vacation videos have in common? Plenty, according to a report by ZDNet’s Jo Best. The author describes in incredible detail the ability to track one of the most elusive (for its massive size) widely-known ocean dwellers, the whale shark. Whale... Read more

What Do Users Really Think Of Facebook’s Reactions?

News Social Media Software Reviews July 18, 2016

The public has spoken, and social media giant Facebook listened…sort of. Serious social media users and comedians alike have long quipped about the need for a different set of reaction points on their fellow users’ posts. After all, clicking “Like” when someone announces they’re going through a hard time... Read more

New School Web Filters Include Bullying Alerts

Internet News Social Media July 15, 2016

As technology grows in every area of the public education market–from the computer lab to the classroom, from kindergarten to high school–new concerns appear virtually every day. Schools used to combat their fears of privacy and outright misuse by imposing strict regulations on the software that powered the tech.... Read more

Facebook Reluctantly Offers End-to-End Encryption

News Social Media July 13, 2016

In this day and age of privacy invasion–whether committed by hackers or by our own governments–end-to-end encryption in a messaging platform is highly sought after. It has the power to win over long-time devotees to a competing app, for example, as WhatsApp discovered when they unveiled their e-to-e offering.... Read more

Facebook Is Not Deleting Your Photos

News Social Media June 17, 2016

There’s a lot of talk going around that Facebook is deleting your photos, but that’s not the whole story. Facebook seems to be the social media platform that everyone loves to hate, yet everyone seems to use it. At least that’s the way it feels every time a new... Read more

Microsoft Puts Itself In Debt To Buy LinkedIn For $26.2bn

Business News Social Media June 14, 2016

Despite cutting their losses in the smartphone market and trying to spin off 2014 acquisition Nokia into the night, Microsoft has announced it is now buying the business focussed social networking site, LinkedIn, for a massive $26.2 billion. The deal will be Microsoft’s biggest ever purchase and is Chief... Read more

Mark Zuckerberg Social Media Accounts Hacked

News Social Media June 9, 2016

Data breaches…the gift that keeps on giving. At least, that’s the way Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has been experiencing them lately. Thanks to (probably) the 2012 LinkedIn hacking event, the social media creation whiz had three of his online accounts breached. How does that add up? Data that was... Read more

Web Giants Vow To Tackle Hate Speech In Social Media

News Social Media June 1, 2016

Several of the web’s big players have released the news that they intend to deal with and remove hate speech posted online within 24 hours of it going live. The move supports a new code-of-conduct intended to limit the dissemination of online abuse via social media. The code was... Read more

WhatsApp Gold Offer Is A Scam

News Social Media May 24, 2016

The link to download WhatsApp Gold is malware that installs data mining software on your computer or smartphone. WhatsApp is arguably one of the most popular workload streamlining and communication apps, with more than one billion registered users worldwide. And the news earlier this month that WhatsApp was rolling... Read more

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