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That Was Fast: Criminals Exploit LinkedIn Breach For Phishing Attacks — After hackers posted millions of encoded LinkedIn passwords to a Russian hacker site on Wednesday, criminals used news of the breach to trick unsuspecting users into downloading malware that can be used to extract financial gain.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times: |
Like LinkedIn, eHarmony is hacked; 1.5 million passwords stolen — A screenshot of insidepro.com, the site used by a hacker to dump two lists containing 8 million stolen passwords from LinkedIn and eHarmony. — EHarmony, the popular online dating site, was the target of a password hacking attack …
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Betabeat, TechEye, PC World, Telegraph, PC World, SlashGear, CNET, eHarmony Blog, Reuters, Ars Technica, Ars Technica, msnbc.com, The Register, Guardian, The Verge, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Mashable!, Liquidmatrix Security Digest, The H Security, memeburn, Softpedia News and Errata Security
Tweets: @csoghoian and @csoghoian
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
MD5 password encryption algorithm ‘no longer safe’ — Summary: MD5 encryption is “no longer considered safe” by the original software developer, a day after the leak of more than 6.4 million LinkedIn passwords. — The original author of the MD5 password hash algorithm has publicly declared …
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Confirmed: Sprint's Virgin Mobile second US carrier to offer prepaid iPhone; from June 29, plans start at $30 — Apple's push into the US prepaid market has been given another significant boost after Sprint-owned Virgin Mobile announced that it will become the second operator to offer the iPhone to its customers.| Bloomberg: |
HTC Said To Be Shut Out Of Next Version Of Windows — HTC Corp. (2498) is being shut out of the introduction of Microsoft (MSFT) Corp.'s next Windows software, people with knowledge of the matter said, cutting off another source of revenue after HTC reduced its second-quarter sales forecast by 13 percent.
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| Ryan Singel / Wired: |
IE 10′s ‘Do-Not-Track’ Default Dies Quick Death — Well, that didn't take long. — The latest proposed draft of the Do Not Track specification published Wednesday requires that users must choose to turn on the anti-behavioral tracking feature in their browsers and software.| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
The all new foursquare launches to cash in on “making the real world easier to use” — Foursquare has been teasing the fact that it was about to launch a brand new version this week, and we've been following all of the clues on what it might potentially entail.
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| Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
Google deploying planes over cities for 3D maps — (Reuters) - Google Inc is deploying a fleet of small, camera-equipped airplanes above several cities, the Internet search company's latest step in its ambitious and sometimes controversial plan to create a photo-based map of the world.
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| Gerry Shih / Reuters: |
Twitter's mobile revenue surpassed Web on many days: CEO — (Reuters) - Twitter has generated more advertising revenue from its mobile platform than from its website on many days in the last quarter, CEO Dick Costolo said Wednesday, highlighting Twitter's progress in squeezing ad dollars …
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Apple wants to keep Samsung's Galaxy S3 out of U.S. — Samsung's Galaxy S3 smartphone. — (Credit: Brian Bennett/CNET) — Excited shoppers weren't the only ones buying Samsung's latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S3, when it went on sale in the U.K. last month.| Youkyung Lee / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: |
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| Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo: |
This Beautiful Device Turns Your iPhone and Android Into an Ultra-Thin Laptop — This is the ClamBook, a super-sleek, airier-that-Air thingamajig that has a 16:9 widescreen, a keyboard, and a battery. It will turn your iPhone or Android cell into a beautiful, ultra-thin laptop.
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Another Super Angel Levels Up: Aydin Senkut's Felicis Ventures Closes $70M — What happens when a super angel gets its wings? You become a boutique fund. — Or at least that's how Aydin Senkut's Felicis Ventures is putting it with a fresh fund worth about $70 million.
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| Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: |
Search beats display by large margin in mobile ad spending, study shows — Facebook better hurry up with that search engine it's reportedly building. A new survey of the mobile market shows that search ads are outstripping display ads by a wide margin in every region of the world.
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AdExchanger.com and IAB
| Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM: |
Google hit with patent claim over Google Drive — The growing popularity of cloud technology is attracting not just users but patent lawsuits too. The latest example is a suit filed against Google that claims the company's Drive and Docs products violate a 1999 software patent.| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
New Mac spec sheet leaks out, WWDC launch pricing and naming included — . — The image above represents the full pricing matrix for new devices expected to unveil in a few days at the Worldwide Developers Conference. You will notice the Mac Pros, Retina MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, and iMacs that we discussed before at length.| AppleInsider: |
iOS to provide 2% of Google's total revenue in 2012, analyst says — Devices running Apple's iOS, the main competition for Google's Android OS, are expected to power the largest chunk of the search giant's mobile revenue and will represent two percent of the company's total revenue for 2012.
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Video hands-on with the purported next-generation iPhone metal back — In late May, we had exclusive high-resolution photos of both black and white next-generation iPhone backs. These backs showed a brand-new, thinner design with a smaller dock connector, new speaker grills, and a new metal back plate.
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CNET, Gizmodo, BGR, Computerworld, ZDNet, Cydia Blog, Business Insider, Engadget, Apple Bitch, Neowin, Ubergizmo, Electricpig.co.uk, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Phones Review, Mobile Magazine, App Advice, Gizmodo UK, MobileSyrup.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, PhoneArena and AppleInsider. Thanks:@jryankennedy
| Matt Lynley / Business Insider: |
Facebook's Answer To The App Store Is Days From Launching — Facebook's App Center, an App Store equivalent for Facebook applications, is launching in the coming days, according to a source briefed by Facebook on the service. — The launch date could be as soon as today or tomorrow, our source said.
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CNET, Gizmodo and PhoneArena
| Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
Samsung Elec names components chief Kwon as new CEO — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co (005930.KS), Asia's technology powerhouse, reshuffled some of its top team on Thursday as it battles Apple Inc (AAPL.O) for supremacy in smartphones and leads the charge to new chip technology.
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| Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: |
30,000 secret surveillance orders approved each year, judge estimates — If the government spies on you but brings no charges, you'll never know. — Jonathan McIntosh — A federal judge estimates that his fellow federal judges issue a total of 30,000 secret electronic surveillance orders each year … | Eric Savitz / The Tech Trade: |
Windows Phone To Top iOS Market Share By 2016, IDC Says — Peaking? — Now here's a bold prediction. — By the end of 2016, according to International Data Corp., Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 will inch ahead of Apple's iOS to become the world's #2 mobile operating system.| Wall Street Journal: |
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