Teens' enthusiasm for Facebook is 'waning,' says study

American teenagers have "waning enthusiasm" for Facebook, however they are still mistreatment the social network whereas upping their time spent on alternative social media sites like Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and Tumblr, in step with a replacement study.

The Facebook bruise is due to the "increasing adult presence, individuals sharing too and disagreeable 'drama' " on the location, says the bench analysis Center’s web & yankee Life Project. however teens "keep using" Facebook as a result of "participation is a crucial a part of overall adolescent meeting."

Facebook takes a trifle of offense at the finding, albeit with courtesy."We area unit continuously centered on creating Facebook an excellent experience; and we're pleased that quite one billion individuals, together with huge numbers of children, area unit mistreatment Facebook to attach and share," a representative aforesaid in an exceedingly statement to nowadays. "As we have a tendency to recently proclaimed, 665 million individuals use Facebook daily, and over 750 million individuals area unit currently accessing Facebook on mobile devices."

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Twitter rolling out two-step authentication for better security

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Twitter has finally enforced a ballroom dancing authentication feature to stay its users' accounts safer. Security consultants, WHO have long questioned why the short-messaging service didn't supply such a security feature, will currently breathe a little additional simply.

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Linux Worm-New danger for Linux System

Jim Geovedi <negative@australia.edu>

Some malicious worm has spread on the Internet and infect the server-Linux server running the vulnerable software.

1. Worms, viruses autopilot

Worm is a type of computer virus that is able to reproduce itself without need to be given command, by using perforated security system, worm can enter, infect, and then duplicate themselves for an attack on the host / other systems that also have system weaknesses.

Linux Worm is a worm variant that attacks on Linux systems, from most Linux worm that has spread there and there are of them, Ramen, Lion, and Adore, have a different danger,considering the purpose of the worm is for the purposes of specific, such as: taking the data user (password), change page
index.html (defacement).

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Microsoft warns of new Trojan hijacking Facebook accounts

Malware focusing on the social network's users in Brazil masquerades as a legitimate Google Chrome extension and Firefox add-on.

Microsoft has issued a warning that a new piece of malware masquerading as a Google Chrome extension and Firefox add-on is making the rounds, threatening to hijack Facebook accounts

First detected in Brazil, Trojan:JS/Febipos.A attempts to keep itself updated, just like normal, legitimate browser extensions, Microsoft noted in a security bulletin late Friday.

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Get more out of phpMyAdmin

phpMyAdmin is popular with both individuals and enterprise users who want a graphical interface for administering MySQL databases. Although the app has an expansive list of features, most people don't use it for much beyond basic tasks such as creating new databases. Here are some features tucked beneath phpMyAdmin's folds that can make you more efficient.

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Ubuntu Server 13.04 Advances with OpenStack

You may have seen the official announcements of Ubuntu 13.04 this week, or our coverage of it, but the analysis of this new version of the popular Linux distribution just keeps on coming. One of the most important things of all to realize is that the Ubuntu Server 13.04 release that became available this week includes capabilities based on the "Grizzly" release of the populuar OpenStack cloud computing platform, and deepens Ubuntu's relationship with OpenStack. 

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Bugtraq 2 Black Widow Finally Release

At 26 April 2013 

THE Bugtraq-Team finally  released BUGTRAQ 2 Code Name "Black Widow"

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