Facebook Is Launching a Career-Development Site, Taking on LinkedIn Little by little, Facebook is starting to sound a lot more like LinkedIn. In February, the social network announced a new feature that lets users browse and apply for jobs on the site. In August, it unveiled a new system to help members of Facebook groups Read more…
ImageGate: Ransomware Spreading Via JPG Files on Social Networks Who doesn’t love a good scary problem that has a “-gate” suffix? An Israeli security firm has dubbed a particularly nasty outbreak of ransomware “ImageGate” and that will help us all remember that if you receive a random image on your Read more…
Recently confirmed Myspace hack could be the largest yet You might not have thought of – much less visited – Myspace in years. (Yes, it’s still around. Time, Inc. acquired it and other properties when it bought Viant earlier this year.) But user data never really dies, unfortunately. For Myspace’s new Read more…
Quite literally, every day someone gets hacked. Whether that’s a telecommunications company having its customer data stolen, or another chain of businesses being ripped for all the credit cards it processes, today one hack just seems to melt into another. A hacker is trying to sell the account information, including Read more…