There’s a new virus spreading around the web via email which targets Facebook users. According to mxlab, the email includes downloadable files which include the Trojan virus: Bredolab. While I’d imagine that Gmail and more aggressive spam blocking email services will filter this out, anybody who receives a “Facebook Password Reset Confirmation” email should delete it right away.

According to mxlab, the body of the email is as follows:

Hey vguysville ,
Because of the measures taken to provide safety to our clients, your password has been changed.
You can find your new password in attached document.
Thanks,
The Facebook…

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p>We have now entered the world of blogs! Sounds kind of HarryPotterish, doesn’t it?If you’re over years old, you probably think this is somecrazy sci-fi phenomenon, or I’ve simply lost my mind. Don’tfret, the vast majority of people don’t know what a blog is allabout – and more importantly, why it matters to them.If you’re under you can stop reading because you probablyknow all about blogs, and the value they have in sharinginformation. You’ve been trading game-breaking codes, South Parkclips, and jokes through blogs for months now – or maybe evenyears.In a recent article, Johnson Ong quips "I have a…

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Jolicloud is a new Linux based operating system aimed at netbooks. The developers were nice enough to let us get our hands on their closed development version of the new OS. This distribution is built off of Ubuntu Netbook Remix(9.04 Jaunty Jackalope). At first glance it looks like nothing more than Ubuntu with a new skin, but the difference is deeper. Jolicloud added an App Store type program that offers installation of web applications along with traditional desktop apps. Using Mozilla Prism, web based applications like Facebook, Gmail, and Wikipedia are installed, get their own icon in the launcher,…

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Google’s Gmail is a highly viable option for email. With numerous features and options like widgets, a task list, labels, and chat, Gmail has a slight tendency to get overwhelming and might force us to loose focus on what it is really all about: email.
What can make Gmail better? For starters, how about no ads; they are cluttering and distracting. What about getting rid of the widgets and unnecessary features like labels and chat that we think are supposed to make us more productive but really only make us lose our focus to send, read and reply to…

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I got a phishing spam PayPal email that mimics the address Support.com in my Gmail account, with title “Important Message” and a html file (Restore_Your_PayPal_Account.html) that asks me to fill up my Credit The form sends the filled in details to the host http://74.108.18.44/user/infos.php
and when processed it will redirect you to the PayPal web site. When we tested this we got a Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Driver error as a result. which is not paypal’s website.  Here’s part of the heading of the email from the original message, which can be seen in GMail by clicking the…

I just got off the phone with Mike Schroepfer of Facebook and Paul Buchheit of FriendFeed to discuss their acquisition. As you’ve probably read elsewhere, the companies are being relatively tight lipped about information surrounding the acquisition but I thought I’d take the opportunity to discuss why Facebook would make such an acquisition. Before discussing the logic behind Facebook’s acquisition of FriendFeed, I wanted to note that I asked Paul Buchheit (who was the the creator of GMail) if he’d be developing FMail and he said “Not that I’m aware of!”

Why The Acquisition Went Down
I think it’s pretty…

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Fluid – Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X Leopard
Are you a Gmail, Facebook, Campfire or Pandora fanatic? Do you have 20 or more browser tabs open at all times? Are you tired of some random site or Flash ad crashing your browser and causing you to lose your (say) Google Docs data in another tab?
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Run Google Tasks on Your Menu Bar « SUBERAPPS
Wouldn’t it be nice if you can run Google Tasks on your Mac as a menu bar item with the same sleek interface you…

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sent in this project called Droplet. He’s been doing work with Xbees and Arduinos together and built this little toy. He describes it as “sort of like a Chumby”. It has built in services for Twitter, Google Calendar, News, Gmail, etc.  You can download the full source code and plans on his site. His next planned revisions include possibly running it from a sheevaplug, making a nice case for it, and utilizing the unused pins of the arduino.

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