Tag: PEREZHILTON

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have discovered a bug that many sites are using to track the browsing behavior of their visitors. The flaw was found on some 485 websites, including YouPorn, Perez Hilton and Wired, and reportedly reveals all of the other sites that each user has previously visited. Of the 485 sites affected by the bug, 63 were found to be copying the data, ...

What separates Twitter from other social networking sites has always been its trademark brevity. Restricted to 140 characters, users are forced to be concise and truncate their thoughts, opinions, or news. As is often the case, though, pithiness comes at the expense of nuance, subtlety or sarcastic intonation, leaving tweets open to wide and varied interpretation. When the tweeter has some ...

What do Wimbledon, Iran, and Perez Hilton have in common? Not a whole lot other than the fact that all three are popular topics on Twitter right now. Mashable reports that Panda Security, an antivirus company, has found that scammers are posting fake tweets that include these popular topics and a link to a malware site. Sean-Paul Correll, a researcher at Panda Labs, described the scam in a blog ...

The Internet seems to be overrun with three types of sites: porn, technology, and celebrity gossip pages. The question on many minds -- according to an article in Forbes -- is how long can the Internet sustain an ecosystem where there are enough celebrity gossip pages for every star to have at least three or four dedicated exclusively to them. According to Internet tracker Hitwise, the number ...

The term "celebrity blogger" may sound like an oxymoron, but we swear it means nothing about Perez Hilton's popularity. Hilton was awarded almost $85,000 to pay for his legal fees stemming from a defamation suit brought against him by Lindsay Lohan hanger-on Samantha Ronson. Hilton, who claims to have the most hated blog in Hollywood, had re-posted a report on another Web site that claimed ...