Как власти читают ваши блоги: расследование Forbes. Reuters Twitter Account Hacked to Post Pro-Syria Messages. New agency Thomson Reuters suffered its second Web security breach in 48 hours after hackers took control of its Twitter account dedicated to technology news, changing the focus to the Middle East and posting a series of pro-Syrian government tweets to its 17,500 followers.
The issue was first noticed late Saturday (US time – h/t @atul) and Reuters has since confirmed the attack, which saw its @ReutersTech account renamed @ReutersME. The account in question has been suspended by Twitter and the news agency revealed that it is conducting an investigation into the issue. Earlier today @reuterstech was hacked and changed to @reutersme. The account has been suspended and is currently under investigation— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) August 5, 2012. Global: A Marathon to Translate the Declaration of Internet Freedom. Mitt Romney fake Twitter followers: Who's buying them? Screenshot As of last Friday, Mitt Romney’s Twitter account had about 690,000 followers.
That’s more than you or me (oh, hush, John Dickerson), but it’s a paltry number compared to that of Romney’s opponent: @BarackObama boasts some 18 million. On a typical day in the past month, Romney’s Twitter account has gained 3,000 to 4,000 new followers, according to Zach Green, whose blog 140elect.com tracks campaign-related Twitter trends. So when Romney’s follower count began growing by the thousands on Friday evening, Green took notice. In a post titled, “Is Mitt Romney Buying Twitter Followers?” Declarations of Cyberwar. Mouths went agape when New York Times reporter David Sanger wrote in June that anonymous sources within the United States government admitted that the United States and Israel were indeed the authors of the Stuxnet worm and related malware.
Those two countries had long been suspected of creating the code that wrecked centrifuges at Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment facility. But never before had a government come so close to claiming responsibility for a cyberattack. Lemonde2223juilletpe220121. Who invented the Internet?: The outrageous conservative claim that every tech innovation came from private enterprise. Photograph by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images.
Earlier this month, President Obama argued that wealthy business people owe some of their success to the government’s investment in education and basic infrastructure. He cited roads, bridges, and schools. Then he singled out the most clear-cut example of how government investment can spark huge business opportunities: the Internet. Farhad Manjoo is a technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal and the author of True Enough. Follow. How Government Did (and Didn't) Invent the Internet. Last night, I happened across an article by Slate technology scribe Farhad Manjoo.
He was responding to an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal by the Journal’s former publisher Gordon Crovitz. Social media is more than simply a marketing tool for academic research. According to Jeff Jarvis, author of Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live, thanks to the internet, "we all have our Gutenberg presses and the privileges they accord.
" For academic institutions, the internet is a largely untapped resource for shaping and sharing scholarly research. As with the Gutenberg press, maybe professors are worried about permanently penning their ideas into cyberspace. Others may worry about privacy, especially regarding social networking. About this Study. Twitter has become a new way to communicate with world leaders and a way for these leaders to communicate with each other.
On the one hand it allows heads of state and government to broadcast their daily activities and government news to an ever-growing audience, on the other, it allows citizens direct access to their leaders. Anyone can @mention a world leader on Twitter. Whether the world leader answers is another question, although a select few do actually reply to their followers’ @mentions. “Life is tweet”, former UK Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott recently wrote in The Guardian: “Twitter has given me a voice and a connection to millions of people that the distorted prism of the mainstream media denied.” Survey: 98% of Americans Don't Trust the Internet.
We know you won’t believe us when we say this, but: 98% of people distrust the Internet. It’s true, according to a study conducted by market-research firm Harris Interactive: nearly all of us find a reason to discredit the information we read online. According to Mashable, the firm surveyed 1,900 Americans, yielding the overwhelming statistic that we have little trust in the information we find online.
Ninety-four percent of those were worried about so-called “bad things,” such as wasting their time or even getting a computer virus. Losing money and being a victim of fraud online was a key concern for about half of those respondents. AllTwitter - The Unofficial Twitter Resource. What Do Twitter, Facebook, Google And Pinterest Know About YOU? [INFOGRAPHIC] Apple Buying into Twitter: Neither Likely nor Implausible. We already know that Apple is a Twitter fan.
It’s baked the social network into both of its operating systems, OS X and iOS, in a manner that’s a departure from its tradition of building every possible aspect of its products itself. Now Evelyn M.