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World Cup Fever Grips Twitter And Google – Stay Up To Date Online

Fifa World Cup Trophy

The South Africa World Cup 2010 has started with a bang after a spectacular 1st goal of the tournament by striker Tshabalala for the host nation. Everyone wants a piece of the pie and Twitter and Google are both joining in the festivities. Twitter has created an official Twitter feed that looks pretty snazzy and
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Facebook Application Spreading Adware

Facebook Security

A new scheme allows cyber-criminals to monetize on unwary users by leading them into installing adware applications. Rather than using hidden vulnerabilities in the social networking platform, this novel approach relies on social engineering in order to trick users into interacting with the attacker.

How Social Networks Are Using Your Data

Social Networks

Companies collect all sorts of data to build a database of you from social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Bebo, website forums, blogs and other websites. How do they use all this info on you? For example, did you know that your Facebook friends could influence what kind of credit you get from a
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