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global brute-force attack on against ALL – WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal sites

There is a new global brute-force attack on against ALL – WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal sites (possibly other) across the entire web hosting industry. All major, small, large, medium, hosting companies, and their clients are being impacted. This is by far one of the LARGEST and very effective Cyber Attacks in recent days.

We urgently advise you that you change all of your Administrative access for any hosted WordPress / Joomla / Drupal or other web applications you may have installed. We have a separate article that focuses on selecting a strong password which you can review here:

Google Launches Big Google Earth Update

Google launched a major update to Google Earth this week for the desktop, iOS and Android. The update includes the addition over over 100,000 new tours and a million new photos in Tour Guide.

Interesting Creative Commons Projects

We live in a world obsessed with profit. Buying, selling, acquiring, spending money in the guise of saving money, manufacturing cheaper products, switching to the cash cow of the digital realm…this is all a part of life. Even when you don’t wish to be part of it, you can’t help it. Our society is just woefully consumerist, touching every part of our day to day.

Tweet CC
Freesound
Flickr
Boing Boing
OER Commons

Facebook and Microsoft’s relationship lives on: Bing will cover everything that Graph Search does not

Today Facebook announced Graph Search, a new search tool that will help its users sort through personal data on the social network’s platform. According to the social giant, Graph Search “and web search are very different.”

T-Mobile Nexus 7 Now Available On Google Play Store

There was much rejoicing when Google finally offered a HSPA+ option for its popular Nexus 7 tablet. The only minor concern was that AT&T was the only carrier listed as the device came with an AT&T SIM card. There are other HSPA+ networks in this country, but they never got a page on the Google Play store until now.

Look Out Google: Facebook Takes on Search

Watch out Google. Facebook has finally upped its search game withGraph Search, a feature that will allow the social network’s one billion-plus users to sort through information shared by their friends to answer simple and sophisticated queries alike.

Facebook has announced a major addition to its social network - a smart search engine it has called graph search.

Facebook rolled out a social search service called "graph search."
Here's how graph search works.
There are a lot of ex-Googlers working on Facebook's search product.
Facebook is all-in on this search thing, even going so far as to change the sign to its headquarters.
Yahoo product exec Shashi Seth has left the company.
Apple has a new system in China that lets buyers pay for Apple gadgets in two-year installments.
Apple lost a second key retail employee — VP Jerry McDougal has left.
Since the Facebook IPO, insiders at the company have sold $775 million worth of stock.
Google is holding a developer event at the end of the month for developers working on Google Glass.
Apple may have cut its iPhone orders because its changing suppliers, or it over ordered in the first place.