Tag: GAWKER

Some say you can learn all you want about art -- technique, history, theory -- but, if you don't have that certain je ne sais quoi, your work won't be exquisite. Viral videos, perhaps, are kinda the same. So when Gawker.TV's Richard Blakeley sets out to teach a class to marketers on "how to go viral," it may be a little pointless. Sure, corporations have most certainly gotten it right, like the ...

Shock and surprise! The most common password in use at Gawker -- revealed after Sunday's açai berry hack attack -- was "123456." But, at least the second most common password was a pretty smart one, right? Oh, no -- "password" isn't that smart of a password. Check out the Wall Street Journal to see what the other cyber-security geniuses and razor-tongued wordsmiths over at Gawker were using ...

Yesterday, Gawker announced that its servers had been hacked, and that more than a million of its user account passwords had been compromised. According to the site, all passwords were encrypted, but "simple ones may be vulnerable to a brute-force attack." Gawker recommended that all users change their passwords on its platform, and on any other site where they had used the same password. The ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. If you weren't paying attention during 'The Social Network,' you may have missed that it features what must have been time-traveling PCs, since they were running Windows XP Service Pack 3 four years before it was released by Microsoft. [From: David Pogue, via: Geekosystem] Still ...

Choire Sicha at The Awl is NOT pleased with what he calls "the magazining" of the Web. He points to Anthony De Rosa's observation that the redesigned New York Times opinion page looks remarkably similar to Gawker's beta homepage. (We feel compelled to point out that 'The Opinion Pages,' as they're called, look more like an evolution of the already magazine-y New York Times Magazine page.) "Is ...

Last week, Facebook accidentally deleted Sarah Palin's rant at/plea to Muslims (depending on your side of the fence) to oppose the construction of the so-called Ground Zero Mosque. On Sunday, a group called The Palestinian Refugee ResearchNet tried to make a Facebook fan page for its supporters, but wasn't allowed because a glitch in the system blocked the world "Palestinian" from page titles. ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Paul Ceglia is claiming Facebook ownership rights based on a 2003 contract, but a lawyer for the site is now questioning the authenticity of Mark Zuckerberg's purported signature. [From: SF Gate] T-Mobile believes its HSPA+ network, which now affects a total of 85 million U.S. consumers after incorporating 24 new cities, ...

Just two days after a group of hackers successfully swiped personal information from over 114,000 of AT&T's iPad users, the New York Times is reporting that the FBI has stepped in to investigate. Jason Pack, a supervisory special agent from the Bureau's new media office, says, "The F.B.I. is aware of these possible computer intrusions and has opened an investigation to address the potential ...