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Google Wave Mania, Malicious Dummy Profiles Flood Facebook

by Warren Riddle on October 2, 2009 at 11:22 AM


Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines....
  • "Have you gotten your Google Wave invite yet?" has become the golden ticket, so folks have started trying to peddle their invitations to the desperate and neglected on eBay. The auction site has been removing listings because of copyright issues, but not before an unidentified "businessman" offered blogger Hagan Blount $27,000 for his golden Wave ticket. [From: The Wall Street Journal]
  • The Facebook attacks just keep coming, as yet another new phishing technique emerged this week. The scam this time involved malicious links, but spread through dummy profiles and not hijacked ones. The ever-vigilant Facebook security crew has reportedly already shut down the fake profiles and disabled the link. [From: Mashable and CNET]
  • October is National Cybersecurity Awareness month, and the Obama administration has announced that it plans to add up to 1,000 new cybersecurity expert positions over the next three years. Now someone just needs to finally pick a person to oversee them all. [From: The AP via FOX News]
  • Poor Friendster. Facebook's membership has more than doubled the red-headed social networking stepchild, so Friendster is reportedly now focusing the majority of its attention on Southeast Asia, which is cool. There's no shame (well, maybe a little) in tucking tail to make it big overseas. [From: SF Gate]
  • Earlier this week, Secret Service officials began investigating a Facebook poll that asked if President Obama should be killed. Yesterday, the government agency announced that the rabble-rouser was merely a kid playing a prank, and he won't be prosecuted. Hopefully, the punk's parents make him peruse our major Web don'ts (though, we left out "threatening the Commander In Chief on account of obviousness). [From: USA Today]
  • Netflix and cable movie channel Starz have reportedly joined forces, adding 2,500 new titles, including blockbusters 'Spider-Man 3' and 'Ratatouille,' to Netflix's streaming content library. Somewhere, the nation's last remaining rental store manager is crying. [From: TV Week via The Huffington Post]

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