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Tweet An expert says cybercrime is soaring, it already costs Australians more than burglary and will only increase as more people use smartphones. Marian Merritt, internet safety advocate with computer security company Norton, said a new global study showed 69 per cent of adults around the world experienced cybercrime in their lifetime, much more than [&hellip
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Tweet Facebook doubled its revenues in the first half of this year, to 1.6 billion dollars ($A1.5 billion). The Wall Street Journal reports that, with 750 million Facebook members worldwide, the online site has attracted major interest from advertisers. Share and Enjoy
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Tweet Facebook wants you to try to hack into its site — and if you succeed, it will pay you for the details. Facebook said this week that that it has paid out more than $40,000 under its new "bug bounty" security initiative. Launched three weeks ago, Facebook’s program invites security researchers — both the [&hellip
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Tweet While propensity to click-through on Facebook is positively correlated with age, propensity to like is not, according to data released in August 2011 by Facebook marketing consulting firm SocialCode. Age has a strong positive effect on whether a user will click, but has a less pronounced opposite effect on the likelihood of them becoming [&hellip
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Tweet A meeting on Thursday between the British government and Internet communications firms was friendly, not confrontational, according to people from the organizations that took part in the meeting. At the meeting, the government "did not seek any additional powers to close down social media networks," the British Home Office, the government’s home security department, [&hellip