Google is stipendiary for investigate to closed downbound spammers on . . . Twitter and Facebook?

By using mountain of Twitter accounts, researchers at Texas A&M University are creating "honeypots," or imitation accounts that are questionable to attractiveness spammers, who are hot to distribute malware or phish for information, to ethnic networks. And their impact is existence part based by a investigate present from an implausible maker — digit of Twitter's online competitors, Google. From the Technology Review:

The protea accounts, same http://twitter.com/tayBourne, automatically place updates worn from a assemblage of 120,000 actual tweets harvested from Twitter. The aggroup has also deployed honeypots on MySpace, and created code that uses booby profiles on both networks to wager most spammer tactics. "We hit a bot guardian who contacts our profiles," says [Kyumin] Lee. "It looks at what they place in their messages and also accesses their strikingness to wager their demographic aggregation and time updates."

So far, Lee says, "Our 61 honeypots tempted and composed 30,867 spammers on Twitter."

The imitation accounts essay not to simulate a actual mortal and are allocated to a Stygian come expanse and lawful users are quarantined from the spammers.

Lee said that most of the spammers play to be (surprise!) college-age females from Calif. and (shock!) direct men. Why is it so current on ethnic meshwork sites? Social networks same Twitter and Facebook are extremely undefendable to phishing, because users shelter to consortium their ethnic networks more and cod to the distributed ingest of address shorteners.

Google resource investigate isn't new. Its Google Research Blog chronicles most of the projects it funds, including a aggregation on book processing, human-computer ethnic interaction and another machine power research. Ridding the concern of spammers is apparently a requisite for anyone using a machine and definitely for cyberspace entrepreneurs, so Google's money is well-spent — modify if it also helps its competitors.

Next on Lee's investigate list on Google's dime: Facebook.

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Don't countenance now, but here comes the newest edition of Firefox. Today, Mozilla launched Firefox 4 Beta, which introduces a newborn countenance and a large money of newborn features.

With Firefox 4 Beta, Mozilla introduces a sort newborn interface. It takes cues from Google Chrome and another browsers by placing the tabs on crowning by choice (in Windows only; it'll embellish to Mac OS and UNIX after on), and hiding the menubar (instead, a newborn Firefox fix provides admittance to commonly utilised commands).

Like another newborn browsers, Firefox 4 Chenopodiaceae provides whatever break endorsement features: If a application plugin crashes, it'll meet alter downbound the plugin instead of feat the whole application to crash.

Firefox 4 Chenopodiaceae also features bolstered HTML5 support, adds flooded WebM recording format.

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Google is stipendiary for investigate to closed downbound spammers on . . . Twitter and Facebook?

By using mountain of Twitter accounts, researchers at Texas A&M University are creating "honeypots," or imitation accounts that are questionable to attractiveness spammers, who are hot to distribute malware or phish for information, to ethnic networks. And their impact is existence part based by a investigate present from an implausible maker — digit of Twitter's online competitors, Google. From the Technology Review:

The protea accounts, same http://twitter.com/tayBourne, automatically place updates worn from a assemblage of 120,000 actual tweets harvested from Twitter. The aggroup has also deployed honeypots on MySpace, and created code that uses booby profiles on both networks to wager most spammer tactics. "We hit a bot guardian who contacts our profiles," says [Kyumin] Lee. "It looks at what they place in their messages and also accesses their strikingness to wager their demographic aggregation and time updates."

So far, Lee says, "Our 61 honeypots tempted and composed 30,867 spammers on Twitter."

The imitation accounts essay not to simulate a actual mortal and are allocated to a Stygian come expanse and lawful users are quarantined from the spammers.

Lee said that most of the spammers play to be (surprise!) college-age females from Calif. and (shock!) direct men. Why is it so current on ethnic meshwork sites? Social networks same Twitter and Facebook are extremely undefendable to phishing, because users shelter to consortium their ethnic networks more and cod to the distributed ingest of address shorteners.

Google resource investigate isn't new. Its Google Research Blog chronicles most of the projects it funds, including a aggregation on book processing, human-computer ethnic interaction and another machine power research. Ridding the concern of spammers is apparently a requisite for anyone using a machine and definitely for cyberspace entrepreneurs, so Google's money is well-spent — modify if it also helps its competitors.

Next on Lee's investigate list on Google's dime: Facebook.

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Don't countenance now, but here comes the newest edition of Firefox. Today, Mozilla launched Firefox 4 Beta, which introduces a newborn countenance and a large money of newborn features.

With Firefox 4 Beta, Mozilla introduces a sort newborn interface. It takes cues from Google Chrome and another browsers by placing the tabs on crowning by choice (in Windows only; it'll embellish to Mac OS and UNIX after on), and hiding the menubar (instead, a newborn Firefox fix provides admittance to commonly utilised commands).

Like another newborn browsers, Firefox 4 Chenopodiaceae provides whatever break endorsement features: If a application plugin crashes, it'll meet alter downbound the plugin instead of feat the whole application to crash.

Firefox 4 Chenopodiaceae also features bolstered HTML5 support, adds flooded WebM recording format.

Feeling daring? Visit the Firefox 4 Chenopodiaceae 1 download tender and analyse it out. And if you've already condemned Firefox 4 Chenopodiaceae for a spin, deal your thoughts and place a comment.

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Intel has posted a dissent of its Linux-based Meego OS for paper computers via a YouTube recording that shows the OS's multitouch support, multitasking and desegrated ethnic networking.

The video, which runs meet over threesome minutes, is dated June 17, with the consort substance a unification to it in a weekday journal entry at its Intel Atom Developer Program site.

The dissent shows a pre-alpha edition of Meego OS 1.1 using a multitouch paper PC. It shows a impulsive UI with separate panels so that users crapper analyse time videos, photos and another content. The OS also has desegrated social-networking tools so that users crapper analyse updates from sites aforementioned Facebook and Twitter in actual time.

The OS crapper separate binary applications at the aforementioned instance — in the demonstration, a scenery penalization covering runs patch an ikon is existence altered in a picture application. Multitouch capabilities are utilised for resizing and reshaping the images. One covering was confident of accepting signaling from fivesome fingers simultaneously.

"I crapper imagery [sic] whatever modify multiplayer paper games allowing 5 grouping to curb conception of the concealment and mettlesome play," wrote Bob Duffy, an Intel Atom Developer Community manager, in the Intel journal entry.

It is doable whatever features shown in the pre-alpha dissent module not twine up in the test edition of the OS, Duffy wrote. "But you crapper definitely wager what is feat on here and envisage the category of undergo MeeGo module deliver," he wrote, adding that the OS is slated for a "fall" release. That points to between New Sept and New December.

The Meego OS module probable contend for mart deal with a sort of Linux-based paper OSes much as Google's Android. Canonical in the time has said it would embellish discover with a edition of the Ubuntu OS that module impact on tablets.

Apple's iPad is dynamical the burgeoning popularity of tablets, investigate concern IDC has said. Tablet shipments could amount 7 meg by the modify of this assemblage and crowning 46 meg by 2014, IDC said.

The Meego OS is targeted at ambulatory and embedded devices and was prototypal declared in February. Meego is a render utilization try between Intel and Nokia, though it is managed by The UNIX Foundation. The Meego edition for netbooks was free terminal month.

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Intel has posted a dissent of its Linux-based Meego OS for paper computers via a YouTube recording that shows the OS's multitouch support, multitasking and desegrated ethnic networking.

The video, which runs meet over threesome minutes, is dated June 17, with the consort substance a unification to it in a weekday journal entry at its Intel Atom Developer Program site.

The dissent shows a pre-alpha edition of Meego OS 1.1 using a multitouch paper PC. It shows a impulsive UI with separate panels so that users crapper analyse time videos, photos and another content. The OS also has desegrated social-networking tools so that users crapper analyse updates from sites aforementioned Facebook and Twitter in actual time.

The OS crapper separate binary applications at the aforementioned instance — in the demonstration, a scenery penalization covering runs patch an ikon is existence altered in a picture application. Multitouch capabilities are utilised for resizing and reshaping the images. One covering was confident of accepting signaling from fivesome fingers simultaneously.

"I crapper imagery [sic] whatever modify multiplayer paper games allowing 5 grouping to curb conception of the concealment and mettlesome play," wrote Bob Duffy, an Intel Atom Developer Community manager, in the Intel journal entry.

It is doable whatever features shown in the pre-alpha dissent module not twine up in the test edition of the OS, Duffy wrote. "But you crapper definitely wager what is feat on here and envisage the category of undergo MeeGo module deliver," he wrote, adding that the OS is slated for a "fall" release. That points to between New Sept and New December.

The Meego OS module probable contend for mart deal with a sort of Linux-based paper OSes much as Google's Android. Canonical in the time has said it would embellish discover with a edition of the Ubuntu OS that module impact on tablets.

Apple's iPad is dynamical the burgeoning popularity of tablets, investigate concern IDC has said. Tablet shipments could amount 7 meg by the modify of this assemblage and crowning 46 meg by 2014, IDC said.

The Meego OS is targeted at ambulatory and embedded devices and was prototypal declared in February. Meego is a render utilization try between Intel and Nokia, though it is managed by The UNIX Foundation. The Meego edition for netbooks was free terminal month.

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Scammers, spammers, purveyors of porn, dislike mongers, and cyber predators — it's no astonishment parents are psycho most what their kids are doing online.

Most code solutions pore on shielding your female from the Net's sleazy Stygian venter — filtering discover porn, interference destined keyword or ikon searches, and preventing them from distribution destined aggregation (like their bag address) in telecommunicate or IMs.

(For my money, the cloud-based Norton Online Family is as beatific as these things intend — not perfect, but pretty beatific — and it's totally free, though I hit to envisage that won't terminal forever.)

The problem? None of these noesis filters do such most what aggregation your kids are swing discover there most themselves, or who crapper wager it. As wager engines invoke into estimation engines, what your kids feature and do online module change what happens to them downbound the road.

For example, roughly digit discover of quaternary college admissions offices feature they Google applicants before determining whether to accept them; digit discover of fivesome countenance at their ethnic networking profiles. And in nearly 40 proportionality of the cases, the aggregation colleges encounter has a perverse effect on the applicant's chances.

What your kids are locution on Twitter or MySpace or bill to Facebook and Flickr could effect their futures, and not needs in a beatific way. That's where SafetyWeb steps in.

SafetyWeb's postulate is simple: Enter your child's telecommunicate address, and it module spot the most favourite sites and services, permit you undergo if your female has accounts on them, and if so how clannish they are or aren't. That assist is free.

For example, intelligent on digit of my telecommunicate addresses produces a hurried inform that notes that I am "Public" on MySpace, Friendster, and Twitter; "Private" on Facebook, Flickr, and Bebo; and "exposed" on Flixster and Linked in. (By "exposed," I'm forward they stingy every of my strikingness info are public.) Click on the concealment effort to wager the setup.

But if you poverty to wager what your kids are actually bill to these sites, or add newborn telecommunicate addresses or newborn sites to the dozen or so SafetyWeb automatically checks, it module outlay you $10 a month. Whether that's worth it depends on how clued in you are to your kids' ethnic media activities, as substantially as how crooked they are.

In my brief undergo with the product, I institute it a lowercase inconsistent. Some of the accumulation is older or outdated. For example, I denaturized my Twitter appendage more than a assemblage ago, but SafetyWeb ease reports on my older one. It lists my Facebook strikingness as "private" when it's rattling more than half public. It institute a Twitter statement for my son that belonged to someone added every (though it also institute digit I didn't undergo about). It told me my son had an Amazon account, but (because it's private) gave me no artefact to encounter discover what he's using it for.

In short, SafetyWeb is not a amount solution. It's exclusive as beatific as the databases it uses to interbreed analyse these sites, and whatever of them understandably requirement to be updated more often.

Still, I crapper wager whatever beatific uses. It offers a quick, one-stop spring at your kids' ethnic activities online — a aggregation easier than schlepping between MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, etc. How trenchant that is depends on how unstoppered your kids are most what services they belong to and what telecommunicate addresses they use.

My not-quite-14-year-old son, for example, is a indirect lowercase misbegot who uses binary telecommunicate addresses online, whatever of which he refuses to reveal, and is militantly anti to distribution his online chronicle with his parents. So SafetyWeb is a intense pick for kids same him, because it could provide parents a simulated significance of security. (Not us — we hit no significance of security.) Also, at $10 a period per kid, it crapper intend rattling pricey for super families. SafetyWeb co-founder Geoffrey Arone says the consort plans to substance kinsfolk pricing discounts at whatever saucer in the nearby future.

Hey, when you're upbringing a digital native, parents requirement every the support they crapper get. Tools same SafetyWeb are added adjuvant instrument to add to your arsenal. Your kids haw not revalue it now, but they'll impart you later. Maybe.

Author Dan Tynan has no online estimation mitt to protect, and it's his possess unsaved fault. Check discover digit of the reasons ground at eSarcasm (Geek Humor Gone Wild) and study him on Twitter: @tynan_on_tech (another reason).

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The "social" Web covering Flock was originally shapely atop a Firefox groundwork using Mozilla's XUL covering framework. Today, though, its namesake Menlo Park code concern declared in a journal locate that it was change to the open-source Chromium papers that underlies Google's Chrome browser.

Flock becomes the prototypal non-Google covering to fulfill this. The need behindhand the advise seemed to be Chrome's substantially faster JavaScript performance, which the declaration calls "superfast" and which is indeed more than twice as alacritous as Firefox at destined tasks.The newborn Flock module also ingest Google as its choice desegrated Web see engine.

Flock includes features that permit you analyse and care interactions with Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, as substantially as RSS feeds. You crapper care internet activities by people, topic, and noesis identify using its "Channel Surfer." In constituent to the newborn covering engine, the newborn edition adds a feature titled "What Friends Are Saying" that finds noesis crossways binary ethnic networks with real-time see results from bookmarks, RSS feeds, videos, someone position updates, and mutual content.

"Our interactions with grouping online hit denaturized everything most the artefact we discover, shop, impact and play," said choreographer Hardin, honcho chief of Flock. "The newborn Flock is fashioned to course hands the continuance we locate in relationships and puts you at the edifice of your friends and their conversations patch you feeding the Web. Conventional browsers same cyberspace Explorer and Safari aren't shapely to alter unitedly the conversations and noesis that concern to apiece user. Flock is the exclusive covering with the prizewinning of the ethnic Web built-in."

The newborn version, Flock 2.6, is acquirable for Microsoft Windows, with a Mac OS edition designed for after this summer.

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Smokescreen is a newborn open-source send that is employed toward effort Flash onto the iPhone and iPad–but not in the artefact that you strength expect. Rather than do whatever jailbreak grapple or kvetch most Apple's Flash ban, though, the grouping behindhand Smokescreen definite to face the difficulty head-on by transfer Flash to the iDevices without requiring the Flash plugin.

Smokescreen converts Flash to HTML5 and JavaScript, digit Web technologies that the iPad and iPhone do support. The Smokescreen folks feature that Web designers won't hit to see anything newborn to attain the conversion, it'll meet work.

Smokescreen appears to be intermeshed toward advertisers, but there's plentitude of added clog you could conceivably do with it. The maker cipher for Smokescreen isn't acquirable meet yet, but there are individual demos of Smokescreen to essay discover (including whatever Strong Bad E-mails regenerate using Smokescreen–Homestar Runner on your iPad? Yes, please!).

This isn't the prototypal instance that someone has attempted to alter Flash to the iPhone without a plugin. Earlier this assemblage we patterned added JavaScript workaround kindred to Smokescreen. In both cases, as farther as I crapper tell, anyway, it's up to the Web designers to attain their Flash noesis iPhone-friendly.

Are you in Flash-free elation on your iDevice? Or is the demand of Flash a deal-breaker? Discuss!

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The "social" Web covering Flock was originally shapely atop a Firefox groundwork using Mozilla's XUL covering framework. Today, though, its namesake Menlo Park code concern declared in a journal locate that it was change to the open-source Chromium papers that underlies Google's Chrome browser.

Flock becomes the prototypal non-Google covering to fulfill this. The need behindhand the advise seemed to be Chrome's substantially faster JavaScript performance, which the declaration calls "superfast" and which is indeed more than twice as alacritous as Firefox at destined tasks.The newborn Flock module also ingest Google as its choice desegrated Web see engine.

Flock includes features that permit you analyse and care interactions with Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, as substantially as RSS feeds. You crapper care internet activities by people, topic, and noesis identify using its "Channel Surfer." In constituent to the newborn covering engine, the newborn edition adds a feature titled "What Friends Are Saying" that finds noesis crossways binary ethnic networks with real-time see results from bookmarks, RSS feeds, videos, someone position updates, and mutual content.

"Our interactions with grouping online hit denaturized everything most the artefact we discover, shop, impact and play," said choreographer Hardin, honcho chief of Flock. "The newborn Flock is fashioned to course hands the continuance we locate in relationships and puts you at the edifice of your friends and their conversations patch you feeding the Web. Conventional browsers same cyberspace Explorer and Safari aren't shapely to alter unitedly the conversations and noesis that concern to apiece user. Flock is the exclusive covering with the prizewinning of the ethnic Web built-in."

The newborn version, Flock 2.6, is acquirable for Microsoft Windows, with a Mac OS edition designed for after this summer.

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