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How Hackers Talk Their Way Into Getting Company Secrets

CTOvision

Read Robert McMillan’s article about how hackers use social engineering to steal company secrets on Wall Street Journal: Often it begins with an innocuous-seeming email from an internet domain that closely resembles the victims. The message may appear to come from the company’s chief executive or another senior executive.

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Facebook’s vision of the metaverse has a critical flaw

CTOvision

Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Facebook “will effectively transition from … being a social media company to being a metaverse company.” Facebook plans to create “an embodied internet” — powered by its […].

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Facebook expands its internet infrastructure projects

CTOvision

While you may mostly think of Facebook as a social network, the company started launching infrastructure projects for connecting bringing more people online (and onto its network) many years ago. Like every year, Facebook is using MWC Barcelona to focus on its infrastructure projects.

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2020: The year the internet didn’t crash

GeekWire

But it could have been worse: the internet could have crashed, or not been there at all. Just look at how much of our lives shifted to the internet as a result of the pandemic. Imagine what things would have been like without the internet. Commentary: Yes, 2020 really sucked. Video conferencing numbers demonstrate the reality.

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Good internet service is still a luxury in the US

Vox

Broadband has become increasingly important for everything from how we work to how we socialize to how we pray. Just over half of Americans making less than $30,000 a year have home broadband, a service that’s increasingly important for numerous aspects of life, from school to work to socializing. It’s also seemingly a luxury good.

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Myanmar orders internet providers to block Twitter and Instagram in the country

The Verge

Not long after it blocked Facebook , Myanmar has now ordered mobile networks and internet service providers to block Twitter and Instagram in the country as well. The company provides mobile services in Myanmar.

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The massive Social Security number breach is actually a good thing

Vox

My Social Security number had been compromised in an alleged data breach. As many as 272 million Social Security numbers are floating around hacker forums after someone stole them from a Florida-based background check company called National Public Data , which is owned by an actor and retired sheriff’s deputy named Salvatore “Sal” Verini.

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