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Tweet Social networks are ‘lucrative hot beds’ for cyber scams as crooks endeavour to dupe members of online communities, according to a Microsoft security report. ‘Phishing’ attacks that use seemingly legitimate messages to trick people into clicking on booby-trapped links, buying bogus software, or revealing information rocketed 1,200 per cent at social networks last year, [&hellip
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Tweet Some 7.5 million of the 20 million minors who used Facebook in the past year were younger than 13, and a million of them were bullied, harassed or threatened on the site, an American study shows. Even more troubling, more than five million Facebook users were 10 years old or younger, and they were [&hellip
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Tweet Microsoft has announced plans to buy internet phone service company Skype for $US8.5 billion ($A7.9 billion) in a move aimed at carving out a bigger presence in an online arena dominated by Google and Facebook. The acquisition of Skype, which had reportedly also attracted interest from Cisco, Facebook and Google, is the largest ever [&hellip
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Tweet Defence Minister Stephen Smith says the use of social media by Australian Defence Force members could put the ADF’s reputation at risk. The defence minister’s warning came a day after charges were laid against a former ADF member over the setting up of a gay-hate Facebook page. Mr Smith on Friday announced an external [&hellip
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Tweet Four people were taken to hospital and a glass door smashed as a near-riot broke out at Beijing’s top Apple store among crowds rushing to snap up the popular iPad 2 tablet computer, state press said Sunday. Angry consumers began rushing the store on Saturday afternoon after a "foreign" Apple employee allegedly stepped into [&hellip