Facebook App Maker Hit With Data-Breach Class Action

RockYou, the popular provider of third-party apps for Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking services, is being hit with a proposed class-action accusing the company of having such poor data security that at least one hacker got away with 32 million e-mails and their passwords. The suit accuses the maker of apps like “Slideshow” for MySpace and “Superwall” for Facebook of making its unencrypted customer data “available to even the least capable hacker.” “RockYou failed to use hashing, salting or any other common and reasonable method of data protection and therefore drastically exacerbated the …
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People's Passwords: Worst Practices (Graphic)
[Security]Analysis of the 32 million passwords exposed in the recent breach at RockYou provides further proof that people routinely use easy to guess logins. Many use the same password for everything - from their private work accounts. But how breakable is your password and what does it say about you?
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Massively Magnificent!
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MI6 chief's cover blown by wife's holiday pics on Facebook
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New Hampshire Fires First Shot Of Civil War
[World News]The New Hampshire state legislature took an unbelievably bold step Monday by introducing a resolution to declare certain actions by the federal government to completely totally void and warning that certain future acts will be viewed as a “breach of peace” with the states themselves that risks “nullifying the Constitution.”...
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6,000 Muslim Clerics declare Fatwa on Terrorism
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