News tagged with fake accounts


Got an unusual name? Facebook may think it's fake (AP)

Got an unusual name? Facebook may think it's fake

Technology / Internet

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Alicia Istanbul woke up one recent Wednesday to find herself locked out of the Facebook account she opened in 2007, one Facebook suddenly deemed fake.





Search results for fake accounts


Fake video dramatically alters eyewitness accounts

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the have found that fake video evidence can dramatically alter people's perceptions of events, even convincing them to testify as an eyewitness to an event that never happened.


Computer forensics links internet postcards to virus

Technology / Internet

created Jul 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fake Internet postcards circulating through e-mail inboxes worldwide are carrying links to the virus known as Zeus Bot, said Gary Warner, director of computer forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Zeus ...


Another attack downs Twitter, briefly this time

Technology / Internet

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Twitter has suffered from another attack following one that left the site down for several hours last week.


China Internet users fake identity numbers

Technology / Internet

created Dec 26, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Chinese officials say Internet users in the country are using false identity card numbers to mask their identities while accessing Web sites and games.


New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo

Facebook, MySpace ban New York sex offenders

Technology / Internet

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Facebook and MySpace have closed the accounts of 3,533 convicted sex offenders in New York state under a law combating online predators, officials said Tuesday.


Twitter on Thursday began letting a small number of users test a "Lists" feature

Twitter testing tool to organize tweets

Technology / Internet

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Twitter on Thursday began letting a small number of users test a "Lists" feature for dividing maelstroms of tweets into manageable sub-categories.


Rubens Barrichello

Google ordered to pay 500,000 dlrs to F1 racer Barrichello

Technology / Business

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Internet giant Google has been ordered to pay 500,000 dollars in damages to Formula 1 racer Rubens Barrichello for hosting fake online profiles of him on its social network Orkut.


Twitter logo

Twitter gets more business friendly

Technology / Internet

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Twitter is testing a way to let businesses better use the popular microblogging service in what could be a future money-making opportunity.


Cyber crooks tarketing banks-social networks: Cisco

Technology / Internet

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An annual security report being released Tuesday by technology titan Cisco warns that banks and online social networks are prime targets for increasingly sophisticated cyber crooks.


Bad weather could interfere with NASA test flight (AP)

Bad weather could interfere with NASA test flight

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- NASA's newest rocket is on the verge of blasting off on a test flight.



List of search results for fake accounts