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Twitter launches two-factor authentication too late to save The Onion
, Jim O'Leary of Twitter's security team announced the release of "login verification," an optional security measure that requires a verified phone number and e-mail address. Twitter is a bit late to the two-factor authentication ...
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Take that Canada Immigration reform may be on its way
Canada's Minister ofCitizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Jason Kenny visited San Francisco last week on a tour promoting the country as a place for entrepreneurs. Here, he poses with the country's newCIC Start-Up Visa billboard. C anada may be lining Silicon Valley highways with billboards recruiting high-tech workers north, a move to promote its new Start-up Visa, take ...
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Twitter upgrade too late for hacked NZ MP
NEW Twitter security measures are being rolled out a day too late for New Zealand's Conservative Party leader Colin Craig, who has been left red-faced when a tweet about gay pedophilia was posted from his account. The tweet, reading: "according to the gay activist community, under age sex or kiddy fiddling is ok as long as the child is of the same sex as the perpetrator (sic)", was ...
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Twitter beefs up security after hacking spree on media sites
Twitter Inc. unveiled technology to boost security for its users, following a spate of attacks on accounts of prominent media outlets including the Associated Press, the Financial Times and The Onion.The micro blogging site, which transmits some 400 million messages a day, said on Wednesday that it had begun rolling out an optional "log-in verification" service to thwart hackers ...
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Twitter is finally rolling out two-step authentication for better security
Twitter has finally implemented a two-step authentication feature to keep its users' accounts more secure. Security experts, who have long questioned why the short-messaging service failed to offer such a security feature, can now breathe a bit more ...
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Experian tackles social media risk
In the wake of hacks, Twitter issues security advice to media Following several high-profile account hacks targeting media companies, Twitter has issued security advice for preventing hijacking. "We expect these attacks to continue," the social media site ...
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Twitter introduces two-factor authentication to stop password hacking
Twitter is introducing "two-factor authentication" using mobile phone verification on the social network, after a number of high-profile cases in which passwords were stolen by hackers.The worst case occurred in April when the Associated Press's feed was hacked by a group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army, which put out ...
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Twitter beefs up security
An illustration picture shows the Twitter logo on an iPad, in Bordeaux, Southwestern France, Jan. 30, 2013. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau Twitter Inc unveiled technology to boost security for its users, following a spate of attacks on accounts of prominent media outlets including the Associated Press, the Financial Times and The Onion. The microblogging site, which transmits some 400 million messages ...
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Man Cannonballs Manatee Posts Video To Facebook
investigating a video posted to Facebook last year that shows a man jumping into a body of water…right on top of a manatee which was swimming with another of its kind. Investigators believe they are a mother and calf. The man can be heard laughing with his friends–who apparently baited the manatees by running fresh water from a hose–right before he jumps onto the creatures. ...
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Lost In A Tornado Found On Facebook
One incredible aspect of a tornado is its ability to snatch up people's possessions--or event their pets--and deposit them far away. The day after the May 20 tornado in Oklahoma, a woman named Leslie Hagelberg found a family photograph on her front lawn--90 miles away in West Tulsa. She started ...
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Abercrombie Fitch CEO posts statement on Facebook stores accused of being unfriendly to disabled
T-shirts are displayed inside an Abercrombie & Fitch store in Bethel Park, Pa., on Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Abercrombie & Fitch has recently come under fire for statements made by CEO Mike Jeffries in ...
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Minnesota Twins need time machine to beat Atlanta Braves... on Twitter
The Minnesota Twins and the Atlanta Braves engaged in a Twitter flame war Wednesday. In an effort to best the Braves, the Twins pulled out an old ...
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Now that hes done everything else Paul Allen comes out with an album
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is releasing an album, "Everywhere at Once." Techie, thought leader, philanthropist and billionaire business tycoon Paul Allen can now add recording artist to his resume. Allen tweeted Wednesday that he will be coming out with an album in August, with some big-name artists paired up with him. The co-founder of Microsoft has always loved playing guitar ...
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Jose Canseco accused of sex assault in Vegas former baseball slugger airs info on Twitter
LAS VEGAS - Former baseball slugger Jose Canseco Jr. has been accused of sexual assault in Las Vegas, in an investigation that the former baseball slugger made public with postings on a social media website claiming that a woman falsely accused him of rape. No arrest was made and police said no charges were immediately filed against the 48-year-old former Oakland Athletics rookie of the year ...
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Developers pitch ideas for 78 acres of Livermore Valley Open Campus
The Livermore Valley Open Campus has 110 acres total for future development to bridge scientific research and technology with businesses. Nineteen entities responded to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratorys call for ideas on how to develop 78 acres of land at the lab. The land is part of the LLNL and Sandia National Laboratories' Livermore Valley Open Campus project to facilitate ...
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Workdays Q1 loss grows to $33 million
David Duffield, left, and Aneel Bhusri, CEOs of Workday Inc. Payroll and personnel software company Workday Inc. lost $33 million in the first quarter ended April, and its accumulated deficit rose to $434.9 million. Pleasanton-based Workday (NYSE: WDAY), led by CEOs Aneel Bhusri and David Duffield, lost $20.3 million in the first quarter a year ago. Revenue rose to $91.6 million in the most ...
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Hewlett-Packards Q2 profit falls by $516 million
Hewlett-Packard boss Meg Whitman. Computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. reported a second quarter profit of $1.1 billion, down $516 million, or 32 percent from the same quarter a year earlier. Palo Alto-based HP (NYSE: HPQ), led by CEO Meg Whitman, earned $1.6 billion in the second quarter a year ago. Both quarters ended April 30 of their respective years. That works out to diluted ...
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Okla. victims find pets photos through social media
Clean-up volunteers are turning to Facebook and other social media sites to reunite the victims of the Moore, Okla., tornado with everything from sentimental wedding and baby pictures to family pets. NBC's Janet Shamlian ...
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Facebook posts Suit filed over vets detention
RICHMOND, Va. -- A civil liberties group filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of an ex-Marine who was detained in a psychiatric facility after posting anti-government messages on Facebook, using the case to criticize a program that looks for veterans who may have become extremists.Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute filed suit in Richmond over the weeklong detention last August of ...
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Yahoo Tumblr And Social Media Stuck In Neutral
It's worth noting that the biggest social media story of the year so far has nothing to do with innovation but rather the sale of an existing platform, Tumblr, to an entrenched tech ...
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Twitter Just Launched Two-Factor Authentication To Foil Hackers. Turn It On.
After a series of nasty hacks of high-profile accounts, Twitter just turned on a feature that's becoming the new normal in Web application security: two-factor authentication. As the video above shows, Twitter users can now sign up to have a unique code sent to their phone by text message whenever they log in from a new computer. That ensures that any hacker who tries to steal your ...
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Social media reaction to firing of Sarah Spear
Sarah Spear The firing of Sarah Spear, (the now former) Arch Grants executive director, struck a nerve with our audience and has led to a lively discussion on social media today. Spear was dismissed last week, one day after the business plan competition awarded its second round of grants to 20 startups. The timing and the circumstances of how she was let go, plus that fact that she is ...
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NFL Player Jokes About Tim Tebows Virginity on Twitter
New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow passes against the Carolina Panthers in the fourth quarter of their pre-season NFL football game in East Rutherford, New Jersey in this file photo taken August 26, ...
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State to offer raw data on lobbying campaign finance
Raw data on lobbying and campaign finance scrubbed of personal data such as addresses and bank accounts will be available online from the state of California for download as a single file by Labor Day. Raw data on lobbying and campaign finance scrubbed of personal data such as addresses and bank accounts will be available online for download as a single file by Labor Day, a spokeswoman for ...
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Twitter upgrades log-in security
Twitter is adding an extra security measure to users' accounts in an effort to prevent unauthorised log-ins. Twitter said in a blog post that users will be able to enrol in a login verification programme. For those who sign up, Twitter will send a six-digit code using a text message each time they sign in to Twitter.com. Besides their username and password, users will have to enter the ...
Calcutta Spotlight
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Stephen Court disaster: any lessons learned?
Over 700 buildings in Calcutta are not compliant with safety regulations with regard to the risk of fire, and the Stephen Court disaster was a tangible example of what can happen when a fire breaks out in an unsafe building. Following that disaster, the local government seems to be taking a harder line on fire safety.
At 2.30pm on the 23 March, 2010, a devastating fire, allegedly caused by an electrical short circuit, ripped through the iconic Stephen Court building in Calcutta, destroying a large part of the 150-year-old office and residential block and killing over 30 people. Read more
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