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Facebook Targets Online Spam With Help From Washington State
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SEATTLE (AP) -- Facebook is partnering with Washington state to combat a type of spam called "clickjacking" that is plaguing the social networking site, company and state officials announced Thursday. Two separate lawsuits were filed in federal courts in California and Washington state against Delaware-based Adscend Media LLC, which officials say is behind the spamming. "The way we think about it, security is an arms race," Facebook's general counsel, Ted Ullyot, said alongside Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna at the social media company's Seattle offices. "It's important to stay ahead of spammers and scammers." In "clickjacking," links on Facebook promising shocking or salacious videos have code embedded in them that spreads the link to the user's page.
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Rhode Island City Enraged Over School Prayer Lawsuit
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A girl’s successful lawsuit to have a prayer removed from her high school has roiled the heavily Roman Catholic city of Cranston, where residents are appealing the decision.
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I've slept with 1,000 men so far - I don't care if people judge me!
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“People don’t usually associate sex addiction with women,” says retail manager Crystal, 42. “We’re normally the ones accused of making excuses before the lights go off but with me it’s different. I think about sex all day.”
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Google Defends Privacy Changes as Questions Mount
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While Google touts its new policy as good for users, others argue that the real beneficiaries are advertisers.
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Jumping Spider Uses Fuzzy Eyesight to Judge Distance
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One of the ways in which humans determine distance is by estimating the sharpness of an image—closer objects produce a sharp image, while those further away are out of focus. For us, this is a minor additional method of judging distance, but now scientists in Japan have for the first time found an animal that appears to use this method as its primary means of depth perception.
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Facebook Sues Spammy Ad Network
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Yesterday Facebook and Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna filed dual lawsuits against co-owners of Adscend Media, LLC, which Facebook Security claims is an ad network "that is alleged to develop and encourage others to spread spam through misleading and deceptive tactics, including the one known as clickjacking." Clickjacking (a.k.a. likejacking) is a technique that tricks users into clicking on an invisible "Like" button. Naked Security's Graham Cluley explains that this button "follows their mouse across the screen, not realizing that they are recommending the webpage to all of th
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Can Sex Ever Be Casual? | Psychology Today
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No-strings-attached mating may differ between theory and practice.
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When Antivirus Firms Can't Tell They've Been Hacked, We're All Doomed
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Symantec has been scrabbling around trying address a security breach from 2006 that came to light recently. But the fact that the company wasn't sure its was hacked in the first place doesn't exactly inspire confidence. Symantec originally said that the worst case scenario was that hackers had...
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