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Life after death: Google’s inactive account manager
What happens to your digital information after you die? Google is offering an inactive account manager which could grow legs.
News published on the April 12th, 2013 - 9:10 AM ET
Palin’s email account hacked : student found guilty
A student has been found guilty of hacking the ex-vice presidential candidate’s email account in 2008. He is now facing up to 20 years in prison for having distributed the stolen information.
News published on the May 4th, 2010 - 9:10 AM ET
One year in prison for hacking Sarah Palin’s email account
For hacking Sarah Palin’s email account, David Kernell has been sentenced to a year in prison.
News published on the November 15th, 2010 - 11:25 AM ET
Xbox Live: an account suspended due to the word gay
A gamer recently saw his Xbox Live account suspended due to the name of the town where he lived.
News published on the September 9th, 2010 - 12:15 PM ET
Facebook : Bin Laden’s account disabled
Facebook has disabled a user account allegedly belonging to the leader of Al Qaeda: Osama Bin Laden.
News published on the April 19th, 2010 - 11:35 AM ET
Microsoft reinforces Windows Live Hotmail’s security
Microsoft has deployed new security functions for Windows Live Hotmail so as to better alert users to potential account hijacking, while also making it easier for the user to recover their account in such an event.
News published on the September 28th, 2010 - 10:15 AM ET
Mobile payments: American Express launches the Serve service
American Express has now crossed over into PayPal’s territory by announcing their online Serve payment service. Mobile and from person to person, this service will provide numerous payment options in a single account.
News published on the March 29th, 2011 - 10:35 AM ET
Facebook places a control on connections
Facebook has deployed a new function which allows a user to keep an eye on connections to their account, and clean up anything required.
News published on the September 3rd, 2010 - 11:15 AM ET
Forgotten Facebook password? Call your friends
The Trusted Contacts function allows you to call friends to recover access to a Facebook account.
News published on the May 3rd, 2013 - 6:11 PM ET
A large critical fault found in Skype (Update)
A security vulnerability has been discovered in the Skype service. All a hacker requires is an email address to be able to take control of an account. The exploitation of this fault has now been blocked by the service.
News published on the November 14th, 2012 - 4:02 PM ET
September 11 attacks announced as a bad joke on Twitter
Computer hackers have announced a fake terrorist attack after gaining control of a large American media organisations Twitter account.
News published on the September 12th, 2011 - 9:35 AM ET
Google alerts users to attacks conducted by states
Google has inaugurated a new type of alert to warn their users if their account is being targeted by an attack being undertaken by a state.
News published on the June 6th, 2012 - 9:45 AM ET
Focus on the User: is Google missing the point?
Facebook, Twitter and MySpace engineers are improving the Google search engine in their own way so that searches don’t only take into account Google+ accounts.
News published on the January 24th, 2012 - 11:55 AM ET
Scam: Lady Gaga promises iPad's on Twitter and Facebook
Following her Twitter account being hacked, the singer who has more than 17 million followers promised each a free iPad. This stunt was also repeated on Lady Gaga’s Facebook page which has more than 45 million fans.
News published on the December 20th, 2011 - 11:45 AM ET
May 20th, 2013 - 3:28 PM ET
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