Facebook Hack Massacre Hits Bengaluru City

Facebook Hack Massacre Hits Bengaluru City

According to a news article that featured in the Mid Day today, a facebook hack massacre has hit the city of Bengaluru. With over two hundred thousand accounts hacked, this is seemingly one of the biggest hacking spree that has ever hit facebook in any country across the world.

Reports say that the users' accounts were hacked and links to their photos morphed with pornographic and nudity-oriented images were posted on their respective walls as feeds to their friends and family. This might just be the beginning of the fiasco as Bengaluru city is just a speck when compared to the complete social graph that facebook hosts.

The preamble of the hacking spree might somewhere be related to the 5th November facebook hack claim by Anonymous. The attack has led to many of it's users leaving social networking and going on a social exile.

Facebook said that the hack resulted due to some browser vulnerability where the users were tricked into fetching malwares via their browsers, resulting in the sharing of pornographic and other offensive photographs in their feeds. Facebook also claimed that the group indulged in this fiasco had already been identified and it's legal team was into finding the apt solutions towards the problem.

With the fiasco already on it's high, the facebook hack seems to show the real consequences of risking your privacy into the wrong hands just for the sake of getting access to a video/image/text snippet worth nothing. Hence, I personally recommend you not to click on random links featuring on your claiming to provide you access to some third rated images/videos or the like. In case you need further assistance regarding the do's and the don'ts in order to maintain a safe access of your facebook and other social networks, I recommend you read this article regarding facebook spams.

Do you think facebook's openness as a platform for all is costing the users their bit of privacy? What do you feel about the reason behind the hacking fiasco that has led to users taking social exile? Do let know through your comments below. Till my next post, adios! :)

Tim Stevens appointed as the new Engadget Editor-in-Chief

Tim Stevens appointed as the new Engadget Editor-in-Chief

AOL, the American global Internet services and social media company, has finally confirmed that Tim Stevens will replace Josh Topolsky as the new Editor-in-Chief of Engadget.com, AOL's technology news website.

It has now been around 3 weeks that Josh officially announced that he was resigning his job as the Chief Editor of Engadget. After quitting Engadget Josh has joined the Gang of Eight, a new tech news startup by a group of Engadget dropouts.

Facebook hacker cup winners announced

Facebook hacker cup winners announced

If you've seen the movie "The Social Network",then probably you're quite familiar with this. The only difference- Now it is official and has a name, then it didn't. Yes, I'm talking about the Facebook Hacker Cup- A competition where the contestants are asked to solve a complex algorithmic problem, and the person who is able to do that the fastest and the best way out wins, and not only he/she wins, but also gets hired into "The Zuckerberg Gang". The contest has reached it's final stage and the person to create history by being the first Facebook Hacker Cup will be announced as soon as the round ends.

FIREFOX CROSSES ONE BILLION DOWNLOADS : FACT OR FICTION

FIREFOX CROSSES ONE BILLION DOWNLOADS : FACT OR FICTION

I was just going through some Technology news content on Yahoo! and what did I find- Firefox crosses 1 Billion downloads (article indexed from PCWorld). I just wondered how this could ever happen, because it was not more than around a week ago that I posted on Firefox crosses 50 Million downloads mark. It made no sense that the people around the world are now downloading Firefox at a rate greater than a rate at which they were downloading it the were downloading it at the time of its launch. So I tried to figure out the point in it.

THE PIRATE BAY NOT LIKELY TO BE SOLD OUT

THE PIRATE BAY NOT LIKELY TO BE SOLD OUT

This post is regarding the torrent-based file sharing giant The Pirate Bay being auctioned at US $ 7.8 Million. Looks like the giant is still surviving the battle of the beasts. The company has suffered a lot of nightmares during the past season. First, it is sued for breaching copyright lawsuits. Then, its founders go to jail for the same. And, after all the mess is up, the company is auctioned to Global Gaming Factor X for US $ 7.8 Million.

But now the scene is turning out to be something different from what it looked like last fortnight. It seems the Global Gaming hasn't got enough funds to work out the deal. Okay, lets take a deeper look into the scene. It all started when Global Gaming hired Wayne Rosso, the former head of Grokster.com (A file-sharing company that was sued for copyright infringement by MGM and 27 other companies) to negotiate with music and other media biggies to get legal license for the website's contents.

Wayne has now quit Global Gaming. In an interview with CNET, Wayne said that the reason he quit Global Gaming was that the company hadn't been open in the necessary manners to him and that the company didn't seem to possess enough funds to takeover Pirate Bay with the bid.

The second issue with the takeover is that Pirate Bay, even after being sued for copyright infringement, still doesn't seem to remove the objectionable content from the website. Hence the consortium of companies that filed the lawsuit against the company, want The Pirate Bay to be shut down.

So, will the company be totally shut down, or will it be back on track with the host of torrents? Possibly not! Will it be seen back in the market for some other legal business? Share your opinions below! :)