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Bob Lord / Twitter Blog:
All about the “onMouseOver” incident — The short story: This morning at 2:54 am PDT Twitter was notified of a security exploit that surfaced about a half hour before that, and we immediately went to work on fixing it. By 7:00 am PDT, the primary issue was solved.
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Mashable!, ReadWriteWeb, Bits, PC World, Computerworld, CNN, VentureBeat, Technologizer, PC Magazine, The Register, Guardian, Black Web 2.0, Switched, Boy Genius Report, GottaBeMobile, Gizmodo, LEWIS 360°, Electricpig.co.uk, blogs.telegraph.co.uk and The Windows Club, Thanks:atul
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Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Twitter worms spread quickly thanks to blatant security flaw — Anyone checking twitter.com this morning was probably greeted with a mess of JavaScript, mouseover effects, and spam retweets, after a flaw in the site's handling of hyperlinks allowed attackers to inject scripts into Twitter's pages.
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SmoothSpan Blog, Sophos, TechCrunch Europe, Security Watch, Computerworld, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Slyck, The Register, Between the Lines Blog, Inquirer, GigaOM, BBC, CenterNetworks, BetaNews, threatpost, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Boy Genius Report, Pocket-lint, THINQ.co.uk, Lifehacker and blogs.chron.com
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
The Twitter hack: how it started and how it worked — A Japanese developer was the first to notice the weakness in Twitter's site and says he reported it as far back as mid-August. He put up a demonstration - and then the exploits flourished — The original discovery of the weakness …
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Software as Services Blog, Inspired? No, F-Secure Antivirus …, Telegraph, Gawker and Asiajin
Twitter Status:
XSS attack identified and patched — We've identified and are patching a XSS attack; as always, please message @safety if you have info regarding such an exploit. We expect the patch to be fully rolled out shortly and will update again when it is. Update (6:50 PDT, 13:50 UTC): The exploit is fully patched.
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Securelist, InformationWeek, TechCrunch Europe, Top stories for TNW Network, Help Net Security, iGeneration Blog, eWeek, ReadWriteWeb, Yahoo! News, The Huffington Post, Digits, Silicon Alley Insider, Mashable!, TechSpot, CloudAve, msnbc.com, Guardian, Netcraft, TechCrunch, Erictric, NBC Bay Area, Download Squad, Covering Web, Gadget Lab, Techland, Geekosystem, Neowin.net, I4U News and SitePoint
Lance Whitney / CNET News:
Google report shows where its content is blocked — Google's Transparency Report shows which countries are asking the company to remove certain content. — In the wake of Google's censorship battles with China and other nations, the search giant has launched a new tool to reveal …
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Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Google Reports on Government Requests and Censorship
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Network World, Threat Level, TechEye, Computerworld, Search Engine Land, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, Fast Company, Mashable!, The Precursor Blog and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Thanks:srikardhanakoti
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
CE-Oh no he didn't!: Anssi Vanjoki says using Android is like peeing in your pants for warmth — You've been asking and imploring, so Anssi Vanjoki — straight shooter, that he is — now has an answer. Why doesn't Nokia switch to Android? Because Google's software represents …
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CNET News, Fortune, IntoMobile, Boy Genius Report, Android Phone Fans, TG Daily, Silicon Alley Insider, Neowin.net and Engadget Mobile
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Pie chart: Apple's outrageous share of the mobile industry's profits — Cupertino is raking in the cash as its competitors struggle to post any profit at all. Canaccord Genuity initiated coverage of Apple (AAPL) Tuesday with a “buy” rating and a price target of $356 per share.
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9 to 5 Mac and MacRumors
Maija / Nokia Conversations:
Nokia N8 shipping update — ESPOO, Finland - There have been a few stories this morning about the N8 availability which we feel need clarification. As we have previously said, we still expect to start the shipments by the end of the third quarter. As with every global launch …
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Reuters, eWeek, GigaOM, TechEye, Inquirer, Wall Street Journal, SlashGear, My Nokia Blog, IntoMobile, The Nokia Blog, Mashable!, Cellpassion, VatorNews, BloggingStocks, mocoNews and Softpedia News
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook Has Quietly Implemented A De-Facto Follow Feature — A few days ago, Facebook made what seemed to be a small tweak to its Friend Requests area. As first noted by Inside Facebook, the social network changed the way friend rejections work. Previously, you could either Confirm or Ignore (deny) a request.
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All Facebook, Gizmodo and TechSpot, Thanks:srikardhanakoti
Nicholas Carlson / The Wire:
The Facebook Movie Is An Act Of Cold-Blooded Revenge - New, Unpublished IMs Tell The Real Story — On October 1, Columbia Pictures will release The Social Network, a film that portrays Facebook's CEO and cofounder, Mark Zuckerberg, as an arrogant nerd-punk who betrays friends and classmates …
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TechCrunch, Gawker and All Facebook
Surur / WMPoweruser.com:
Full specs of the Windows phone 7 HTC Mozart leaked — A kind tipster has sent us this video of the HTC Mozart in action (which we have seen before) and also the full specs of the device, which we have not. — He confirms the device runs a 1GHzQualcomm QSD 8250, with 512 MB ROM and 8GB storage …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Deciphers The Balance Of Power Across The U.S. — Google has consistently offered consumers useful ways to interact with election and politics online including “In Quotes,” maps of where to vote, and town hall meetings on YouTube. Today, the search giant is helping you see where the balance …
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Google Public Policy Blog, Hillicon Valley and Google Maps Mania
Matt Van Wagner / Search Engine Land:
How Google Saved $100 Million By Launching Google Instant — It seems fitting that from the moment it was announced, Google Instant became an instant headline news story. — For the past few week, industry pundits have been talking, tweeting and writing about Google Instant and offering …
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ReadWriteWeb, Softpedia News and Search Engine Watch
Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat:
Credit Suisse: Verizon iPhone will get 1.4M users from AT&T in 2011 — An estimated 1.4 million AT&T subscribers will shift to Verizon with the advent of a Verizon iPhone in early 2011, according to a report released today by Credit Suisse. Credit Suisse's report relies on a supposed February 15 launch …
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Boy Genius Report, MacRumors, Electronista, AppleInsider, SlashGear, ReadWriteWeb, IntoMobile, Digital Daily, TUAW, iLounge, MarketWatch, Gearlog, TiPb, Silicon Alley Insider and mocoNews
Hamid Tehrani / Global Voices Advocacy:
Iran: Jailed blogger, Hossein Derakhshan ("Hoder") may face death penalty — A reliable source has told Global Voices that Tehran's prosecutor is seeking the death penalty for jailed Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan (also known as “Hoder"). The presiding judge, named Salavati, has not yet ruled in the case.
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Guardian and ReadWriteWeb, more at Mediagazer »
Bappa Majumdar / Reuters:
India in talks on BlackBerry e-mail access: source — (Reuters) - India is in talks with Research In Motion Ltd to gain access to BlackBerry corporate e-mails after securing access to instant messages sent via the devices, a senior government source said on Tuesday.
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Guardian, Digital Daily, Phone Arena, Electronista, SiliconANGLE and GeekSmack
Jason Hiner / Tech Sanity Check:
The truth about iPad: It's only good for two things — Because of the iPad, 2010 will likely be remembered as a landmark year in computing. It will rank right up there with 1984 when the graphical user interface debuted to the masses in the first Macintosh, and 1995 when the launch …
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TeleRead, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com and Software as Services Blog, Thanks:techrepublic
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Thanks to Fuze Box, you can run meetings from your iPad — Popular online meeting services WebEx and GoToMeeting were both in the first wave of applications for Apple's iPad, but they lacked one key feature — the ability to actually host meetings. That's where a company called Fuze Box has been able to top them.
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eWeek, PR Newswire, VatorNews, TUAW, IntoMobile and TechCrunch
Andrew Lyle / Neowin.net:
Microsoft: over 2 million IE9 beta downloads — Last week Microsoft unveiled their Internet Explorer 9 beta to the world, showing off the tremendous power behind the totally revamped web browser. Loaded with features and improvements, Internet Explorer 9 showed that Microsoft still knows …
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The Windows Blog, BetaNews, eWeek, TechFlash, PC World, Top stories for TNW Network, Download Squad, TechSpot, LiveSide.net, Inquirer, The Windows Club and Web Browsers
Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Auto-complete and Reply to All come to Twitter — All things considered, the new Twitter is a raging success. However, there are always new features that can be added to make a great thing even greater. Hearing that call, Twitter has implemented two features today that Twitter developer Dustin Diaz hinted at recently.
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TechCrunch, Covering Web and Skeptic Geek's Posterous
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Google M&A boss presides over record year — (Reuters) - In the fast-paced world of Silicon Valley innovation, Google's (GOOG.O) chief dealmaker David Lawee puts many a youthful engineer to shame. — As head of Google's M&A group, he has powered up the search giant's acquisition machine …
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DealBook and Silicon Alley Insider
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
TerreStar Genus hybrid satellite phone hits AT&T at long last for $799 — It's been just shy of a year since TerreStar's Windows Mobile-based Genus was announced for AT&T, offering a unique combination of GSM / HSPA backed up with satellite capability for those times when you find yourself …
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Digits, Associated Press, MobileCrunch, Crave, IntoMobile, Phone Arena, pocketnow.com, Obsessable, TechEye, Softpedia News and Electronista
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Tumblr CTO Steps Down To Focus On Instapaper, Independent Career — Tumblr cofounder and CTO Marco Arment is stepping down from his full-time role within the company to focus on “independent” projects, he announced this morning. He'll continue as a consultant to Tumblr.
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Marco.org and The Next Web, Thanks:atul
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
MetroPCS launches first 4G LTE market and phone — MetroPCS launched the nation's first Long Term Evolution 4G wireless broadband network today in Las Vegas along with the first-ever commercial LTE handset. — Like all MetroPCS services, the new 4G wireless broadband service is prepaid and it doesn't require a contract.
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DSLreports, TechFlash, Silicon Alley Insider, MetroPCS, GigaOM, IndustryGamers, I4U News, Tech Trader Daily, Computerworld, dailywireless.org, Sidecut Reports, Engadget and BetaNews
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Facebook fraud a ‘major issue’ — Site says it is developing new ways to verify users' identities and detect when their accounts have been hacked — Hacking of Facebook accounts to scam people out of money has become a “major issue” for the social networking site, its head of European public policy …
