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A major cyberattack on Adobe has left data of 2.9 million customers compromised, the company revealed today through a blog post. The intruders were able to gain access and run off with a large number of Adobe IDs and encrypted passwords. Adobe also says that certain information on 2.9 million customers has been compromised, this includes encrypted credit and debit card numbers, their expiration dates and customer names. In another recent attack, intruders stole source codes for a number of Adobe products, such as ColdFusion and Adobe Acrobat. The company believes that there might be a connection between these two attacks.

The company says that it doesn’t believe the hackers were able to get access to or steal any decrypted financial information. It’ll still notify customers whose credit or debit card information was compromised. Adobe will provide them with an year’s worth of credit monitoring “where available.” In the meantime, Adobe will reset the passwords of all affected customers. Banks are said to have been put on alert as well so as to minimize the risk of any fraudulent financial activity taking place due to the leaked credentials. Federal law officials have been brought into the loop and Adobe is assisting them in their investigations.

Adobe Hacked, Data Of 2.9 Million Customers Compromised original content from Ubergizmo.

We reported back in August that the California State Assembly was debating on a bill that aimed to classify “revenge porn” as a criminal misdemeanor. There are a plethora of revenge porn websites on the internet which host content provided by vindictive ex-lovers. Today, California governor Jerry Brown has signed the bill into law. Revenge porn distributors may now face up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. With the passage of this bill, California has become the second state in the U.S. to ban the act of putting intimate content of an ex on the internet in a bid to humiliate them. The first is New Jersey, which classifies revenge porn as a felony.

The bill, SB 255, only covers the photos or videos that are taken by the offender, not that are sent to them. So a victim will essentially have no legal recourse under this law if they themselves had sent the compromising content. Still, it provides victims with a legal framework that was previously absent. Videos and pictures that show a person in the state of “partial undress in any area in which the person being photographed or recorded has a reasonable expectation of privacy,” classify as revenge porn under SB 255.

‘Revenge Porn’ Has Been Banned In California original content from Ubergizmo.

Many of us associate Scribd with embedded documents on websites, but the company has been quietly building an e-book platform — first by selling content and later by soft-launching a subscription service. The company is now making its strategy clear by formally launching the e-book service and introducing content from HarperCollins, its first major publisher. Subscribers worldwide can pay $9 per month for access to both HarperCollins’ back catalog and independent releases through apps for Android, iOS and the web. Customers can also buy any books outright, including HarperCollins’ newer titles. Like with any Scribd document (and Kindle for the Web), customers can both share what they’re reading and embed books into websites. If you like the prospect of all-you-can-read services like Oyster but want broader platform support, you’ll want to take a close look at Scribd’s new offering.

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We have bad news: Verizon didn’t mean to let website visitors buy devices at upgrade prices while preserving unlimited data. The option was a momentary “software issue,” the carrier says. However, we also have good news — the company said (in the statement after the break) that it’ll honor orders approved under these terms. Subscribers should be safe as long as the provider hasn’t already cancelled their purchases. While many would no doubt prefer that Verizon made its glitch a permanent feature, it’s good to know that at least some customers will get to take advantage of the network’s accidental deal.

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Facebook, the world’s largest social network, says that its goal with the News Feed is that to deliver the right content to the right people at the right time. It adds that the company’s goal with the ads that it shows in News Feed is no different, which basically means that they want to show the right ads to the right people at the right time. The ad algorithm decides the most relevant ads that are to be shown to a user, based on their interests and the Pages that they like. Facebook has said that it has tweaked the ad algorithm to improve the “relevance and quality” of ads that users see in the News Feed.

The social network has more than 1 billion users, advertisements are without a doubt a major source of its revenue. To offer the best ad experience, Facebook says that it listens to both users and marketers. Emphasis will now be placed on the feedback Facebook receives from people about ads, this will be yet another factor of deciding relevance, feedback may include stats on how often users hide or report an ad. This practise will ensure that only increasingly relevant ads are shown, and fewer ads that users might not be interested in pop up in the News Feed.

Facebook Tweaks Ads Algorithm To Show More Relevant News Feed Ads original content from Ubergizmo.