In what has to be a damage control exercise, Kevin Systrom co-founder of Instagram has admitted they made a mistake and promised to re-word their terms and conditions text. On the Instagram company blog he posted: More
WordPress have added the number of unique visitors to the page view graph. More
Today WordPress.com announced a new paid-for enterprise version of its free blog hosting service.
They are offering unlimited uploads, bandwidth, 70 WordPress plugins and lots of customization features to draw corporate users away from self hosted sites using the open source version of WordPress (WordPress.org). The price – $500.00 pcm.
Read more:
WordPress.com Enterprise is Live « WordPress.com VIP.
Facebook have announced new ‘better’ privacy controls to be rolled out by the end of the year. It’s mostly good news, but for some people there is a sting. More
From BBC News:
“An alleged cybercrime ring said to be responsible for losses of $850m (£530m) looks to have been foiled by the FBI – by using Facebook.Facebook users were targeted over two years beginning in October 2010.”
Read the full post:
Police in Global Arrests over $850m botnet crime spree – BBC News
The BBC reports that the ‘Ghost Shell’ hacking group have released user account data after it was obtained primarily from government agencies in the US and Europe.
“The group gathered the data during a series of attacks on NASA, the FBI, the European Space Agency and many other government agencies and contractors.
Included in the dump were log-in names, passwords, email addresses and CVs, plus the contents of online databases.”
The full report can be read here: BBC- Hacktivists Ghost Shell dump 1.6m log-in details on web
There’s a completely new re-born and re-invented New Myspace in the wings. What’s it about? For sure, there are lots of things to drool over and a potential show-stopper or two. More
Google are rolling out a new Communities feature on Google+ today. More
Today Facebook issued an email about the next steps in its Global Site Governance review, and there’s been a resurgence of the ‘protect your privacy by pasting this message’ hoax.
To cut to the chase, if you are sent a message about cutting and pasting a Facebook copyright or privacy statement, don’t do it and don’t share it. It’s totally irrelevant. If you want to know more about this, read on. More
Tumblr engineers have resolved the issue of the viral post attack that affected a few thousand Tumblr blogs. Thanks for your patience.
— Tumblr (@tumblr) December 3, 2012
We are aware that there is a viral post circulating on Tumblr. We are working to resolve the issue as swiftly as possible.Thank you.
— Tumblr (@tumblr) December 3, 2012
Following the infection of many Tumblr sites with a worm today, Tumblr have temporarity suspended posting.
Update: Technical detail on how the worm spread are being revealed
You can read more about the attack on Sophos Naked Security
There is a report on Sophos’ Naked Security blog of criminals adding sub domains to genuine websites hosted by Go Daddy. The links lead to sites that install Ransomware.
What does this mean to you? As always, make sure your antivirus and malware protection is up to date, and exercise caution if a link is taking you to a sub domain. More
At last Pintrest is enabling business accounts. There’s a great article on Hubspot which takes you through the steps of changing over a personal account to a business account. Now get pinning!
Strange things are happening on Facebook today. On several (but not all) of the pages we look after the profile images no longer display properly. I discovered that the profile pictures had lost their ‘Scale to fit’ option setting. More
Twitter has just announced (Thursday November 15) that it is rolling out a new facility to enable you to send tweets directly to email addresses. More