Facebook Post spy talks and to detect criminals

 

Facebook can now detect suspicious behavior, brand content and determines further action, inform the police. This news comes from a Reuters interview with the Director of Security at Facebook, Joe Sullivan. Reuters The note mentioned the following:
 

'A man of about 30 I was talking about sex with a 13-year-old South Florida and is scheduled to meet with her after school classes. The extensive technology but little discussed Facebook for digitizing publications for criminal activity chats automatically dials the conversation, after notice is given to the police. The officers took control of the computer of the child and arrested the man the next day '.

This software is focused on Facebook conversations between members that have a loose social network. Means is for users who are not friends, are friends recently, they have mutual friends, interact with each other very little, have a significant age difference, and / or are away from each other, then the tool special attention.

The program is responsible for searching certain phrases found previously in the chat logs of criminals, including sexual predators. 'We never wanted to create an environment in which private communications look, what is really important is using technology that has very low false positive rate, "says Sullivan told Reuters. Anyway do not have many details of the tool, but we know that Facebook is working with the police because they have to comply with the law.

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Digg is sold by parties

 

Digg was one of the major social sites at the time, on that site were shared a lot of news. Currently Betaworks has decided to buy Digg for $ 500,000 a very small figure taking into account the importance of this popular news aggregator.

So now, you will know more about the real dimensions of the amount paid by Digg. Digg it happens that not only was sold to U.S. $ 500.000 Betaworks, as calculated, but was also sold in the Washington Pos t parts, and LinkedIn, which would total 16 million for Digg.

As indicating the reports, the Washington Post paid $ 12 million by the team of Digg a few days ago, whereas LinkedIn paid disbursed U.S. $ 3.75 million and $ 4 million for an average of 15 patents Digg, among which is included a very particular: click a button to vote for a story
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And as you know, Betaworks paid for the remainder of Digg between $ 500,000 and $ 725,000. It is also known that LinkedIn will grant the necessary licenses to run Betaworks what you have in mind with its recent acquisition.

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Download applications from the App Store without Password

 

The company Apple is about to launch its new operating system IOS 6, and he has promised many new features, and one I'm sure will be very well accepted by users Apple devices.
 

It is the ability to download free applications from the App Store without the introduction of the password. And according to reports that highlight this change in IOS 6, this option would be available both for new programs for this platform, as for the above can be re-downloaded.

At the time Apple released the first beta of iPhone OS 6 to early June, the users reported that they did not need to enter your password in iTunes when you want to download updates or previous purchases from the App Store. And it seems that this option has been expanded to applications in the third beta version of the IOS.

It will be a welcome feature for users, because I believe that is comfortable for anyone having to enter passwords each time. But now, what would be done only when downloading paid applications.

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Download trial version of Office 365

 

 Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, presented the Office 365 office automation solution, which would be launched officially in February 2013.
 

Microsoft has made ​​'disposal of the general public a test version of Office 365 which can be achieved by following this link , Microsoft also announced that this new office automation pack will be available in 4 vesions: Office 365 Home Premium, Small Business Premium ProPlus, and Enterprise.

Office 365 Home Premium. Persons wishing to have this new version of Office will get the chance to install it on up to 5 PC's per license purchased. This includes 20 GB of storage on SkyDrive, and programs can use Word, Power Point, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Access and Publisher. In addition, Microsoft provides 60 minutes a month of credit to make calls on Skype.

Premium Small Business Office 365, designed for 10 employees, with 5 plants per user, includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Access, Publisher, InfoPath and Lync (a new application to start a video to work online documents .)

Office 365 ProPlus, you can have 25 user accounts, each of them has the ability to install the software on 5 computers and includes the same number of applications in the previous version.

Office 365 Enterprise brings everything we find in the ProPlus version, but adds the option to file and keep the emails from the company in the cloud, using Exchange Online.

On the other hand, it is valid to note that Office Web applications will remain free in this new release, and those to come.

If you decide to download the trial version of Office 365 back and let us know your experience!

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Google would have to sensurar the word 'torrent' and 'RapidShare'

 

The terms "torrent", "rapidshare" and "megaupload" can not be suggested when a person performs a search on Google. That is, should be eliminated as suggestions. That's what the Supreme Court has ordered the French in the music industry litigation against Google SNEP, whom he accused of helping to implicitly musical copyright infringement not filter those words.
 

What is the reason? The Supreme Court of France argues that Google provides (indirectly) piracy by not filtering the above terms, so the case was sent to the Court of Appeals which shall make the final decision for Google.

Indeed, in 2010 the trade association of the Recording Industry of France, SNEP, filed a lawsuit against Google, this was a way to force the company to filter out certain terms in their searches, noting that when users write the name an artist, Google added suggestions of words like 'torrent' or 'Rapidshare', facilitating piracy.

This case went to court that gave reason to Google before it reached the Supreme Court ruled that Google is not responsible for web sites that infringe copyright, but can handle it difficult for the public to find pirated content. It also could add more terms to the list of censored words if the appeal does not benefit Google. What do you think?

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Google Chrome is the product of more attacks

INTECO (National Institute of Communication Technologies), warning users about cybercrime attention to mobile devices and SCADA systems.

INTECO is responsible to warn and inform users about security flaws that exist in operating systems, hardware and applications. Now it happens that your repository has grown vulnerabilities in the first quarter of 2012, so you have 2112 new vulnerabilities with severity levels of medium and high.

First is Google Chome as the product most affected. Note the increase in operating systems like Linux and IOS, this indicates that we should stop thinking that there are operating systems that are safer, we must use the updates.

Third are the vulnerabilities of the operating system for mobile devices from Apple. It is very important that the case of Apple, but that is a mobile operating system, giving us a clue of where is deepening.

And that cybercriminals are pending in the mobile malware (both Apple, Android, Windows Phone, etc.), is a good idea to take care of security on these devices. In addition the report also adds that browsers are up and are a 'prime target' for cybercriminals.

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Mother hacked into school to improve their children's note

 

A mother in Pennsylvania was charged with trespassing on school computers for their children to improve their calificaciones.La woman allegedly improperly could change the assessment because he used passwords he obtained while working for the school district.

Police investigators say that Catherine used the password Venusto superintendent of Northwestern Lehigh School District to change the ratings. She was charged Wednesday with five felony counts, but was released on bail.

Authorities say Venusto changed a failing grade in 2010 of his daughter with a note of absence for medical reasons. In that year she was still secretary for the district. The woman, of New Tripoli, was also accused of manipulating a score of his son, from 98% to 99% in February.

State police said admitted Venusto change assessments, but that she thought her actions, while unethical, were not illegal.

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Google buys Sparrow, e-mail client for IOS and Mac

Sparrow, premiered in October 2011, had become in record time in one of those programs that do not need advertising, but popularized by word of mouth among friends. The e-mail program, which initially only worked on Macs, has just been acquired by Google, although neither party has made ​​public the amount.

So, Sparrow, that service for managing and controlling Gmail accounts in the iPhone or the Mac, now past the ranks of Google, according to recent reports that have on the subject.

'We care about how people communicate, and have always done our best to provide the email experience more intuitive and enjoyable as possible,' says the CEO of Sparrow, Dom Leca, in a post published this morning on the company blog. 'Now we are joining the Gmail team to achieve a larger vision, one that we think we can get better with Google'.

Sparrow applications have managed to become the most popular with users of Apple devices thanks to its clean design and smart functionality. And service users will know what I mean and would certainly not have shown signs of surprise at this news, since the acquisition by Google Sparrow is something we saw coming a long time, since the application was integrated well with Gmail, even surpassing in many respects to the Gmail application itself in IOS.

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