Posted on July 31st, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Facebook is offering a $500 reward for reporting bugs on its site, far less than bug bounties offered by companies like Google or Microsoft. To show our appreciation for our security researchers, we offer a monetary bounty for certain qualifying security bugs,” Facebook wrote on a page entitled “Security Bug Bounty.” To qualify for the [...]
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Posted on July 31st, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Instead of grouping hot dogs with Mom and apple pie, a national medical group wants you to consider them as bad for your health as cigarettes. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a Washington, D.C., group that promotes preventive medicine and a vegan diet, unveiled a billboard Monday near the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with the [...]
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Posted on July 30th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Are users of other Web browsers smarter than the people who use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer? A new survey doesn’t quite say so. But it sure as heck suggests it. The survey by AptiQuant, a Vancouver-based Web consulting company, gave more than 100,000 participants an IQ test, while monitoring which browser they used to take the [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Google’s smartphone software pulls away from Apple iPhone platform in mobile OS market share race. Google Android is now well ahead of Apple’s iOS for iPhone in the race for market share in mobile operating systems, new data released Thursday showed. Android’s total U.S. share for June came in at 39%, compared to 28% for [...]
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Posted on July 27th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Long gone are the days when Apple lovers could take pride in their virus-free Macs while snickering at PC owners’ constant worries about security. Apple’s brand new Mac OS X Lion operating system is already acquiring an unhealthy list of reported vulnerabilities less than a week after its official release. Some Lion vulnerabilities are carry-overs [...]
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Posted on July 25th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Those fake Apple stores in China that created so much buzz in recent days have only just come under investigation by authorities in the city of Kunming, and now it’s being reported that two of the stores have been ordered to close for lack of the proper business licenses. Three of the five unauthorized Apple [...]
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Posted on July 18th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
The widespread use of search engines and online databases has affected the way people remember information, researchers are reporting. The scientists, led by Betsy Sparrow, an assistant professor of psychology at Columbia, wondered whether people were more likely to remember information that could be easily retrieved from a computer, just as students are more likely [...]
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Posted on July 17th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Twitter stands to lose a lot of clout — and money — if it flubs its social search deal with Microsoft’s Bing like it did with Google. Just a few weeks after Google shut down its tweet-parsing social search function, AllThingsD is reporting that Microsoft also is prepared to cancel its contract between Twitter and [...]
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Posted on July 17th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
A Minnesota hacker was handed an 18-year prison term Tuesday for unleashing a vendetta of cyberterror against his neighbors. A Minnesota hacker that prosecutors described as a “depraved criminal” was handed an 18-year prison term Tuesday for unleashing a vendetta of cyberterror that turned his neighbors’ lives into a living nightmare. Barry Ardolf, 46, repeatedly [...]
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