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Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- Online search giant Google has launched a brand new social networking website Google+. While it’s closest rival Facebook has already got 500million users New Google+ is going to beat this record...
Ceop website form 'could have put children at risk'
An investigation is under way after a web page - set up to protect children online - was found to be insecure. A member of the public found a form on the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre's website - to report alleged offenders - was unencrypted...
BBC website crashes for an hour
Technical problems with the BBC website saw a total outage of the news site, iPlayer and other web services yesterday. The disruption lasted for around an hour on Tuesday evening. BBC bosses admitted that there had been a "major network problem...
Friends to help police bullying and abuse on Facebook
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Facebook users who are being bullied or abused can now report the problem to friends, as well as site moderators. The option to contact a "trusted friend" has been added to the website's safety centre. Facebook said that the system was designed...
'Anonymous' defends the use of web attacks
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Web activist group Anonymous has criticised the arrest of its members claiming the web attacks they launched were a legitimate form of protest. Five men were arrested yesterday in connection with web attacks carried out in support of Wikileaks...
Web images to get expiration date
Help is at hand for anyone who has ever forgotten about embarrassing images they posted to a social network or website. German researchers have created software called X-Pire that gives images an expiration date by tagging them with an encrypted key...
Facebook U-turns on phone and address data sharing
Facebook appears to have U-turned on plans to allow external websites to see users' addresses and mobile phone numbers. Security experts pointed out that such a system would be ripe for exploitation from rogue app developers. The feature has been...
Anonymous activists target Tunisian government sites
Key websites of the Tunisian government have been taken offline by a group that recently attacked sites and services perceived to be anti-Wikileaks. Sites belonging to the Ministry of Industry and the Tunisian Stock Exchange were amongst seven targeted...
Twitter use strongest among US minority groups - study
African-American and Latino adults in the US who use the internet are twice as likely as whites to use the website Twitter, a survey has found. The Pew Research Center, a Washington-based think tank, found that 13% of Latino and 18% of African-American...
Security flaw discovered in German digital ID card software
One day after its release, the software used to read new German ID cards is shown to be vulnerable to attack. The Federal Office for Information Security has removed links to the program from its website. Jan Schejbal, a German computer security...
