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This story was sent to us by email from Luca Fenochietto himself, in which he tries to get his side of the story out there which may well be the truth. The full story goes like this: The Last Friday 21st January, Christian Russo and his partner Luca Fenochietto discovered a vulnerability in  PlentyOfFish  exposing users details, including usernames, addresses, phone numbers, real names, email addresses, passwords in plain text, and in most of cases, paypal accounts, of more than 28,000,000 (twenty eight million users). This vulnerability was under active exploitation by hackers. Their team decided to notify Mr. Markus Frind (founder and CEO of PlentyOfFish Inc.) about these circumstances as soon as possible in order to stop any potential damage which could be done, by the exploitation of this vulnerability. The flaw was reported the same night to Annie Kanciar, his wife, who was very thankful with us, and contacted one of their developers in order to infor...

One affair about The Daily that ashamed me from the additional I aboriginal laid eyes on the iPad bi-weekly that launched bygone is that there is no one abode area you can see a simple account of every news in the issue. There is a table of contents, but it shows alone ten featured stories. Like any acceptable hack, The Daily: Indexed creates a affection that is missing from the aboriginal but is acutely needed. The Tumblr blog put calm by Andy Baio creates a complete table of capacity for The Daily. The Daily: Indexed is causing a activity because The Daily is a subscription-only advertisement meant to be apprehend on the iPad. The Daily's website is not abundant added than brochureware for the iPad app at this point, but there is a backdoor to every story. Whenever a subscriber shares a news via email, Twitter, or Facebook from their iPads—like this one about Amish raw milk smugglers—the recipients get a articulation to the news on thedaily.com. You can't acquisition these belief b...

Flickr initially said that it had assuredly deleted Mirco Wilhelm's five-year old account, but a day afterwards said that it has absolutely adequate the photo collection. It's every Flickr user's affliction nightmare: one day you login to acquisition your accumulating of bags of anxiously organized photos acquire vanished. Permanently. That's absolutely what happened this anniversary to Mirco Wilhem. When Wilhelm, a five-year affiliate of the Yahoo-owned photo-sharing website, approved to log in to his annual he was denied admission and instead prompted to actualize a fresh account. An e-mail from Flickr eventually accepted his fears: Hello, Unfortunately, I have mixed up the accounts and accidentally deleted yours. I am terribly sorry for this grave error and hope that this mistake can be reconciled. Here is what I can do from here: I can restore your account, although we will not be able to retrieve your photos. I know that there is a lot of history on your account–again, pl...

A small study by a trending company shows that Facebook addiction is one of the fastest growing searches related to addiction. It is more popular than searches for sex or cigarette addiction. While we already knew that social networks like Facebook produce drugged-up, sex-crazed teenagers, new research shows that Facebook addiction may be soon be more prevalent than offline addictions like sex. The Internet Time Machine, a company that searches for trends across the Web through its extensive cloud computing network, is reporting that Facebook may be more popular than sex. Addiction to social media, specifically Facebook, is one of the top ranked digital addictions, says the trending company. More people are searching for help with Facebook addiction than sex addiction. "The rise of social media and the fear/need to be in constant contact with status updates and tweets has created a problem for people with addictive personalities," says ITM. "The fact that accessing Facebook is so...

450 Global Training Centers Nominated, 25 Selected Worldwide, 8 in the USA, 1 in St. Louis (February 2, 2011) St.  Louis, MO – Hacker University is pleased to announce it has been asked by EC-Council, the leading international certification body in information security, to participate in the Global Launch of CEH v7 - the most advanced information security and ethical hacking training program in the world which is not yet publicly available. Only 15 students will be allowed to attend this exclusive, cutting-edge class the week of March 14, 2011 in St. Louis – becoming one of the world's first CEH v7 certified professionals. Hacker University's Global Launch instructor and co-owner, Dave Chronister, is thrilled to be a part of this revolutionary event. "I am excited at the universal recognition this event brings the city of St. Louis as well as Hacker University. CEH version 7 breaks away from its earlier releases with more emphasis on techniques and methodologies hackers use to...