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If you use Yahoo! Voice a lot – formerly Associated Content, and now Yahoo’s division that focuses on online publishing, then you will definitely need to hear this report. Earlier today, more than 453,000 user accounts from an unidentified service owned by Yahoo were posted on a hacker site. The hackers reportedly said that they infiltrated the subdomain by using a union-based SQL injection. But the group responsible for the security breach added that the data breach was intended to be a wake-up call for Yahoo.

“We hope that the parties responsible for managing the security of this subdomain will take this as a wake-up call, and not as a threat,” the hackers wrote. “There have been many security holes exploited in webservers belonging to Yahoo! Inc. that have caused far greater damage than our disclosure. Please do not take them lightly. The subdomain and vulnerable parameters have not been posted to avoid further damage.” According to TrustedSec, the compromised server could most likely belong to Yahoo! Voice. This assumption was based on the string “dbb1.ac.bf1.yahoo.com” found in the data dump. Yahoo has yet to release an official response to the reports.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Yahoo confirms security breach on Yahoo! Voice, assures that a fix is underway, Facebook and Yahoo! form new partnership, resolve patent dispute,

Microsoft and NBC have had what you might call a complicated relationship. They’ve been separated in the TV space ever since MSNBC became a solely NBC-owned entity in 2005, but the online fling has carried on to this day. If Daily Beast‘s tipsters are right, however, NBC may get a little less ambiguous with its relationship status and kick Microsoft to the curb. The now Comcast-owned NBCUniversal is supposedly irked at having to share equal control over the MSNBC website and wants to send Microsoft packing, buying out Redmond’s 50 percent stake. While the existing management would stay, MSNBC’s online staff would quit Microsoft’s campus and hop over to an NBCNews.com domain to reflect their newfound independence. An NBC representative wouldn’t confirm that an agreement had been signed, but did say talks had taken place — certainly much more of a response than most rumors get. With a signed deal rumored in a matter of “days,” there won’t be long to wait before we learn whether or not Microsoft gets dumped once and for all.

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Microsoft and NBC rumored calling it splitsville on the web, MSNBC.com to get friend-zoned originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While malware is a pretty common thing nowadays, a lot of people still have no clue about it or what they can do to help get rid of it. Well it looks like Facebook is leveraging its popularity to help people with the problem. According to an official announcement by Facebook, the social network is helping out people who think their computers might be affected by malware with the introduction of its Malware Checkpoint for Facebook.

Users now have access to McAfee’s Scan and Repair and Microsoft’s Security Essentials in addition to previously provided tools to ensure that they don’t have any harmful software on their computers. While these programs do work, there is no guarantee that they’ll detect and get rid of every single malware on your computer so the best solution to the problem is to just be more careful when you’re downloading files from the internet. Make sure you get files from trusted sites and reputable sources. Hit the source link below for more information.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Facebook profiles hijacked by Chrome extensions malware , F-Secure ShareSafe Beta makes Facebook a safer place,

Google has been in hot soup before due to issues of privacy, but its latest run in with the law seems to be pretty severe. A number of months ago, the search engine juggernaut was reportedly circumventing users’ privacy settings in Apple’s Safari web browsers by illegally sneaking cookies onto users’ computers. While these cookies gave users Google’s +1 button to recommend sites, it also allowed cookies from Google’s ad network DoubleClick to sneak in as well.

The fine for Google’s unlawful practices hasn’t been set in stone just yet, but according to the Wall Street Journal it’s likely to be around $22.5 million. Though that might seem like an awful lot of cash for us regular folk – Google reportedly made that amount of cash every five hours or so last year. However, it is also expected to be the largest penalty ever levied on a single company by the US FTC. Read up more about the case at the source link below.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Samsung and Google reportedly planning to release software patch to keep Galaxy Nexus, Man in Japan sues Google over for alleged defamation over the autocomplete function,

Google has been talking up the prospects of integrating WebRTC into Chrome for the past several months. It’s now ready to put theory into practice with a fresh beta of the web browser. The upgrade uses WebRTC to let typical microphones and webcams talk to the browser without using a plugin like Flash or something otherwise so very 2011. Just to embrace this future of direct hardware support ever the more tightly, Google is also building in a gamepad programming interface that lets controllers tap into Chrome without having to rely on Native Client‘s magic. There’s more waiting at the source link, including more direct tie-ins with Cloud Print, so the more adventurous among us can get to chatting (and playing) right away.

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New Google Chrome beta lets webcams go plugin-free, video chat gets a lot less Flashy originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Jul 2012 19:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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