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InternetNews August 10, 2009	Cyberattacks' Aftershocks Hit the Web Twitter and Facebook have since bounced back from the the spam and the denial-of-service storm that hit them late last week, but the aftereffects continue to be felt across the Internet.
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InternetNews April 13, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Twitter Still Under Siege by Worm Now in its fourth variant, a cross-site scripting attack continues spreading across the popular microblogging service.
InternetNews June 18, 2009 Alex Goldman	New Twitter Worm Variant Rears Its Head Latest attack to prey on the micro-blogging phenom.
InternetNews October 29, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Facebook Worm Redux Taps Google Sites Once again, social networking site Facebook has been hit by the Koobface worm, which has been used to attack it several times since July.
InternetNews May 21, 2009 Alex Goldman	Phishers Strike Facebook in Latest Assault Facebook is fighting back against the most recent attack.
InternetNews December 5, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Latest Facebook Attack Stems from Previous One Businesses with Facebook links must watch out.
InternetNews June 8, 2009 Alex Goldman	Symantec Says Phishers Have New Tools Automated toolkits are making it easier to attack services such as Facebook, Twitter and financial services brands.
InternetNews August 7, 2009	Facebook, Twitter Attacks Aimed for One User An anti-Russian blogger with profiles on a number of sites may have been the intended target of yesterday's attack.
InternetNews January 28, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Online Trust: A Thing of the Past? Malware attacks are turning the Web upside down, and complicating the efforts of security vendors and users to cope with the threats.
InternetNews October 1, 2009	Facebook Hit With New Spyware Scam Hackers bypassed the social networking site's captchas to create new accounts at will.
PC Magazine August 7, 2009 Lance Ulanoff	Twitter's Down and It's All Your Fault The micro-blogging service's difficulties are troubling. Why it's suffering through a DDoS attack is even more upsetting.
InternetNews August 11, 2009	Twitter Hit by Another Denial-of-Service Attack Twitter junkies get denied their fix for a few hours when the microblogging service gets hit with another remote attack.
InternetNews August 6, 2009	Twitter Goes Down in Denial-of-Service Attack Microblogging service Twitter this morning suffered downtime due to what company officials described as a denial-of-service attack.
InternetNews February 2, 2010	Facebook Seen as Biggest Threat to IT Security New survey from Sophos highlights concerns about using social media sites inside the enterprise.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Report: 63% Of Users Consider Twitter And Facebook A Source Of News Self-proclaimed social media gurus, listen up: A new study says that more Twitter and Facebook users are turning to the platforms primarily for news.
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Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Twitter Now Alerts Users To State-Sponsored Attacks More than 20 users received a notice saying their Twitter accounts were among "a small group of accounts that may have been targeted by state-sponsored actors."
InternetNews June 16, 2009 Alex Goldman	Could Twitter Top Google? Twitter can deliver more traffic and better traffic than any search engine, at least according to backer and venture capitalist Fred Wilson.
InternetNews January 22, 2010	Twitter Says Flash Flaw's Been Fixed Researcher had alerted Twitter to a flaw he said could expose user's accounts.
InternetNews May 15, 2009 Alex Goldman	Facebook Attacks Threaten All Web Sites Why would users want your user name and password? Perhaps because it could give them access to your money and your e-mail.
InternetNews February 17, 2009 Sean Gallagher	Social Networks a Magnet for Malware Just like the crooks robbed the banks because that's where the money is, malware will go where the people are.
InternetNews September 28, 2009	Reddit Snuffs Out XSS Worm Social news service Reddit is in the process of recovering from a worm that pummeled the site with malicious comments.
InternetNews July 30, 2010	Taking the Measure of the Twitter 'Crime Rate' Researcher at Barracuda Networks has taken the measure of the "crime rate" on Twitter, which ranks somewhere in between e-mail and Facebook on the threat counter.
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InternetNews August 21, 2009	Facebook Pages Publish to Twitter With New Tool Promotional marketing on the top social networking site just got easier with a new tool that automatically publishes Facebook Pages content to Twitter.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Twitter Claims Its Audience Is Comparable To Facebook's--And It Might Have A Point Twitter CFO Anthony Noto said that Twitter's reach is actually far greater than user numbers suggest -- potentially even bigger than that of Facebook. Here's why.
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InternetNews February 9, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	Stripped-Down MyDoom Hits Microsoft.... Again A new variant of the virulent MyDoom worm has been found in the wild, launching what one analyst fears may be a vicious attack against Microsoft Corp.'s Web site.
The Motley Fool August 12, 2009 Tim Beyers	Is This the Next Great Tech Disruption? Facebook acquires Twitter rival FriendFeed for roughly $50 million in cash and stock -- and takes one step closer to beating Twitter at its own game.
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BusinessWeek August 13, 2009 Joel Schectman	Computer Hacking Made Easy Botnet attacks like the one that took down Twitter are becoming so easy and cheap, almost anyone can do it.
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InternetNews February 11, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Hijack Facebook Group of 1.5 Million Facebook site is taken over by get-rich-quick and other familiar spam.
InternetNews February 23, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Malware Authors Exploit Facebook App Is a bogus application making the rounds on Facebook just a failed marketing ploy? Or something more dangerous?
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BusinessWeek May 27, 2010 Ari Levy	Twitter Cracks Down on Third-Party Ads Websites and mobile-phone apps have consolidated tweets with streams of messages from Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social networks. Twitter is putting an end to that.
InternetNews June 22, 2009 Alex Goldman	Bloggers Say Facebook Slow to Fix Security Holes An apparent flaw in Facebook's security has bloggers up in arms, again, about whether user's personal information is safe on social networking sites.
InternetNews December 2, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Facebook Gets a Spanking over Data Loss Facebook's attempt to get users to reset their e-mail preferences has blown the lid off an an embarrassing loss of user data inside the social network.
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