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...present, government lawyers have drafted agreements with 10 private social-networking companies. (The tailored agreements take into account certain federal privacy statutes and require that disputes be settled in federal court, not state courts.) Six other private-sector products, including iTunes, are being considered for further expansion, potentially clearing the way for easy iPod downloads of Obama Administration messages...
...false sense of security: most users can't interact with one another unless they are "friends" or belong to the same general network. The site at first glance would also seem less of a gold mine for swindlers since unlike financial websites, which offer access to victims' bank accounts, there is no direct financial gain from hacking into a Facebook account. But the bad guys know that many of us are lazy or forgetful and use the same password on multiple sites. In early 2008, Facebook noticed a marked increase in the number of scams. "We're the most effective...
...Facebook monitors users' activity, and when someone goes from a few wall posts a week to hundreds of messages within a few minutes, the security team can logically assume that the account has been hacked. They'll notify the user, reset the password, and the whole issue is usually resolved within a few hours. But when thousands of users are hacked at once - and then their friends are hacked, and their friends' friends are hacked - it can take a few days for Facebook to fix the problem. That's what happened on April 29 and 30, when users found themselves...
...similar phishing scam established a toehold on the website in January. And last year hackers broke into accounts by convincing people to click on links posted on their profile walls. Another common Facebook scam is to hack someone's account and then send messages to friends asking for money (like the old Nigerian businessman scam, but with a hey-it's-your-old-pal twist...
...year, but for the rest of us, anything can happen.”The northern California waters will also present the Crimson with a different environment than it is used to sailing in.“San Francisco is an extremely windy venue, and we must take into account wind and currents while we are out there,” Garrity said. “We need to get better in big breeze, which means we will continue to lift weights each week in preparation.”BU TROPHYThe BU Trophy on the Charles River over the weekend afforded...