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Apple Presents The Black Friday Shopping Night
Nov 23rd
Black Friday Is The 27th Of November & This Marks The Beginning Of The Warm Up To The Christmas Shopping Craze! Possibly one of the busiest shopping days of the year, Apple has conjured up a “special Apple one-day shopping event” on November 27. The company posted a teaser on their website saying the following:
“Come back to the Apple Online Store this Friday for a special one-day-only shopping event. You’ll find lots of great iPod, iPhone and Mac gift ideas” – They Also Say They Will Offer Lots Of FREE SHIPPING!
So if you just got paid, or fancy a new toy, blow all your money this friday on presents for you and the family, hopefully at great discounts!
NEW Malicious Worm Hits Jailbroken iPhone’s
Nov 23rd
Just weeks ago there were reports of the first ever iphone worm, this was contagious on Jail broken handsets, but if your iphone is jail broken beware it was only through the cause of the SSH application, so if you don’t have that installed you will be fine! (Also users that have the SSH Application are most vulnerable if they haven’t changed the default root password)
The worm was harmless fun, and was just “rickrolling” users which entailed changing the background image on the device to an image of Rick Astley.
Now, according to early reports of perculiar activity by a Dutch ISP, and later confirmed by Sophos (Leading Virus Detection), there’s a new worm in the wild, and this one is far more malicious.
The new worm is called “Duh” or “Ikee.B”, and it uses the exact same vulnerability as the first one. The fix is thus identical – change the root password in the SSH application to something other than the default, which is “alpine”.
Failing to do so might result in very serious problems.. According to Sophos, the virus is “designed to connect to a server in Lithuania and to follow orders from remote hackers.” This worm is mostly vulnerable to the countries listed: Netherlands, Portugal, Australia, Austria, and Hungary (these are the countries hit by the worm the hardest at the moment, but beware ALL jail broken iphones with the SSH application are at risk. Furthermore, it changes the root password on the iPhone to “ohshit”
Users who haven’t jailbroken their iPhone or haven’t installed the SSH application are not affected by this vulnerability.
Twitter Retweets
Nov 23rd
Twitter recently introduced a BETA Features allowing a user to “repost” someones tweet, at first this caused many problems, because of the 140 character limit placed on tweets, retweeting someone else’s content sometimes meant editing their text in order to ensure that the customary “RT” and “@username” attributions fit. Second, because there’s often overlap in who we follow, retweets many times appeared more than once in your timeline if it was retweeted more than once. So a couple of days ago, Twitter developed and released a completely new retweet system.
OLD VS. NEW:
Retweeting someone used to be a completely manual process. You had to copy and paste their tweet, add the “RT” designation, and the “@username” attribution, then click the “update” button.
Twitter’s new retweet feature has turned these problems around. Now, instead of retweets by using the “RT” text, they have a special retweet icon.
Further, Twitter has fixed the redundancy issue by grouping together identical retweets. So It works like this in either your timeline or on any user’s profile page, a “Retweet” link will appear directly to the right of the “Reply” link that has always been there. To retweet the tweet, all you have to do is click on the link. You have different tabs for the new feature listed below:
Retweets by others – These are all the retweets by the people you follow.
Retweets by you – This tab shows all of the tweets that you have retweeted.
Your tweets, retweeted – These are your original tweets that others have retweeted.
To turn off retweets from a specific user, visit their profile page and click on the circular green retweet button that appears next to the “Following” message at the top of their page. Once you click on the button, it will turn grey, indicating that retweets from that user will no longer appear in your timeline. You can toggle this option on and off using this button.
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