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If you’ve always logged into Flickr using your Facebook or Google sign-in credentials, you won’t be able to do so much longer.
Yahoo has just announced that they’ll soon be eliminating the option to sign into Flickr via Facebook or Google. After that time you’ll need a valid Yahoo account in order to access the ultra-popular photo sharing service. [Read more…]
Popular music service Spotify has announced that their servers have been breached by hackers, but they seem to believe that there is little for their users to worry about.
This attack is the latest in a spurt of hacks that have plagued a number of online services and brick and mortar retail chains in recent months. [Read more…]
Well, another giant website has been hacked. This time it’s eBay, the iconic online auction site and digital marketplace.
eBay issued a statement this morning saying that hackers have managed to steal customer names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, and encrypted account passwords. In other words, this one is BIG folks.
If you have an eBay account, you need to log in and change your password immediately. You might also want to start monitoring your credit reports along with your bank account and credit card statements just to be on the safe side.
Important: Please consider sharing this in order to warn as many of your friends as possible.
If you get your high speed Internet service via Comcast (aka Xfinity), your wonderful unlimited monthly bandwidth allotment will be coming to an end.
How soon Comcast will begin capping your monthly data usage depends on where you live, and that time-frame ranges all the way from “soon” to “any time within the next five years“. [Read more…]
Another day, another scam. This one is perpetrated via an email that claims to be from Google – but it isn’t.
The subject line of the scam email varies, but it usually is something like “Lookout Notice” or “Mail Notice“. If you happen to accidentally open the email, you’ll see text similar to this: [Read more…]