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Hacker catches Facebook registering private links as ‘likes’

If you’ve sent Facebook friends a link to something out on the wilds of the World Wide Web, the social network knows and they’re telling others about it. A video published online this week by a poster on Hacker News reveals that Facebook scans private messages and registers links in…

Sony Ericsson’s Canada site hacked: company

TOKYO (AFP) – Hackers have attacked Sony Ericsson’s Canadian eShop website, affecting 2,000 users, the latest online strike against the Japanese electronics and entertainment giant, a Sony spokesman said Wednesday. The new security breach follows a massive theft of personal data from Sony’s PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment services,…