Cambridge (ip-192.com): Facebook is asking its 500 million plus users to set the social networking site as their browser homepage. Some accounts already display a button "Make Facebook Home." The site generates nearly 1 in 4 page views in the US, according to Experian Hitwise, a global online competitive intelligence service. That’s a 60 percent [...]
Botnet down, experts skeptical
Redmond (ip-192.com): Security experts give Microsoft mixed reviews after the company did shut down the Waledac botnet (ip-192.com reported here). "Microsoft has taken a bold move in addressing this problem and it will be interesting to see how it develops," said Sandra Toms LaPedis, general manager of the RSA Conference, the world's biggest gathering of [...]
Thousands of Hotmail Passwords Leaked
Redmond (ip-192.com): Hackers have exposed more than 10,000 usernames and passwords for Windows Live Hotmail accounts last week, according to a report by Neowin.net. The blogging site reports that an anonymous user posted details of the accounts on October 1 at pastebin.com, a site commonly used by developers to share code snippets. The site claims [...]



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