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First they targeted Nicolas Sarkozy’s Facebook page, and now they have targeted none other than Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg’s page on his own social networking website according to a report.

An unknown hacker hacked into the Facebook account of the 26-year-old celebrity CEO and recent Times Person of the Year, and posted this message.

“Let the hacking begin: If Facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, why doesn’t Facebook let its users invest in Facebook in a social way? Why not transform Facebook into a ‘social business’ the way Nobel Price winner Muhammad Yunus described it? http://bit.ly/fs6rT3 What do you think? #hackercup2011″

The post has since been deleted and Zuckerberg’s page is now back up again. Facebook has not commented about the hack and there is no mention about it on Mark Zuckerberg’s now online Facebook profile either. No-one knows how the hacker broke into his account.

Online security firm Sophos has posted this video about the hack.

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I stumbled across a webpage today that looks remarkably familiar to me (you can check it out here) because it was just a little while back that I posted a piece on the Home Income Cash System.

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It’s been a busy time for Cathy Cruz Marrero, who has shot to YouTube fame for texting on her phone, while not actually paying any attention to where she is headed, before spectacularly tumbling head-first into a Pennsylvania shopping mall fountain.

According to the NY Daily Times, the 49-year-old took to the media this week to let everyone know how embarrassed she was, even though only a handful people even knew it was her before she appeared on TV. Now she’s thinking she’ll sue the mall, although it seems her past has created a bit of a fly in the ointment.

After attracting attention to herself by appearing on ABC’s morning show, Cathy (with lawyer in tow) spent the next few hours in court for a status hearing on charges of five felony counts, including theft by deception and receiving stolen property.

It turns out, Cathy is accused of using a credit card belonging to a work colleague, without permission of course, to rack up $5,000 worth of merchandise debt from Target and a jewelry shop.

According to ABC, Cathy has a colourful past, convicted for theft five times (four of them retail theft) in New York between 1997 and 1999, and once for retail theft in York County in 1999. She also received 12 months of probation after being convicted of a hit-and-run charge in 2009.

I’m thinking she probably needs the money.

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Perhaps its time we talked about dams, rather than saving lizards, unless all Australia’s tree-hugging hippy green pollies, who do not represent the views of ordinary Australians, are comfortable with being held criminally negligent when nature unleashes its might upon us.

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A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder what these parents do to produce so many math whizzes and music prodigies, what it’s like inside the family, and whether they could do it too. Well, an author writing for the Wall Street Journal can tell you because she did it. Here are some things her daughters, Sophia and Louisa, were never allowed to do:

• attend a sleepover

• have a playdate

• be in a school play

• complain about not being in a school play

• watch TV or play computer games

• choose their own extracurricular activities

• get any grade less than an A

• not be the No. 1 student in every subject except gym and drama

• play any instrument other than the piano or violin

• not play the piano or violin.

Read the rest at the Wall Street Journal.

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The personal details of millions of Vodafone customers have been available on the web in what is described as an “unbelievable” lapse in security by the mobile phone giant.

The details include names, home addresses, driver’s licence numbers and credit card details.

The personal details, accessible from any computer because they are kept on an internet site rather than Vodafone’s internal system, also include numbers dialled or texted, plus the time and location of calls or texts.

Fairfax newspapers say criminal groups have paid for the private details of some Vodafone customers to blackmail them.

Other people have obtained log-ins to check their spouse’s communications.

The full extent of the privacy breach is unknown, but it is possible that thousands of people have log-ins that can be passed around and used to gain access to the accounts of about four million Vodafone clients.

Michael Fraser, head of the Australian Communications Law Centre at the University of Technology Sydney, said it seems to be a major breach of the company’s privacy obligations and “unbelievably slack security”.

“The fact you can look up anybody as easily as that seems to be a gross breach of privacy and resulting in an almost negligent exposure to criminal activity,” said Professor Fraser, who is also head of the Australian Communication Consumer Action Network.

Vodafone said on Saturday that the company has ordered an immediate investigation and review of its security. All passwords would be reset and training and other procedures would be reviewed.

Vodafone retailers say each store has a system username and password, and access is shared among staff and changed every three months.

Full access means you can look up a customer’s bills and make alterations to accounts.

More at ZDNet.

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