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...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 distribution platform on the Internet," says Ryan McGeehan, the company's incidence-response manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Downside of Friends: Facebook's Hacking Problem | 5/5/2009 | See Source »

Celebrate by watching Episodes IV through VI (let's be real, I-III were just bad, sorry Natalie). Or, set up a Jedi church. Or learn things that may well have had nothing to do with any of the movies or George Lucas...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna | Title: May the Fourth Be with You | 5/4/2009 | See Source »

...Taylor, the art historian at the Art Institute of Chicago, says younger artists who made a living by copying are starting to worry that the practice that once benefited them is now hurting their prospects. Even if making copies was not originally intended to deceive, the situation is so bad now that no reputable museum will borrow from Vietnam's national art museum, Taylor says. "The biggest damage is that now Vietnam has a bad reputation," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Copied Paintings Plague Vietnam's Museum | 5/4/2009 | See Source »

...findings may finally bring some closure to the tragedy of his great-aunt's death. "Especially in my line of business," says the ex-cop, "we like closure; we like happy endings, I guess, if there can be a happy ending to this. You're always looking for the bad guy, especially someone who could do something to an old lady like that." He adds, "I plan on attending the trials when they come up for the personal satisfaction of actually physically seeing him in custody and knowing that he's going to stand for the charges. I've always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cold Case Gets Hot: Is This L.A.'s Westside Rapist? | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

...version of these conversations are slated each Saturday, when Osborne and a year-long guest co-host movies from the collection in a series called The Essentials. So far his partners have been film historian and glamour gal Molly Haskell, writer-actress Carrie Fisher, actress Rose McGowen and multimedia bad-boy/cool-guy Alec Baldwin. The taping must be an ordeal for the guests - Molly told me that her 31 intros and wrapups were recorded in a day and a half - but it often provides surprising insights into the films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 15 Reasons to Love Turner Classic Movies | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

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