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Russian Hacker Selling 1.5M Facebook Accounts

cebudirectories — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:08:52 +0000

A Russian hacker who says he is living in New Zealand attempted to sell the login details of millions of Facebook users – an unprecedented attack on the world’s biggest social networking site.

Detectives from the National Cyber Crime Centre are investigating whether the hacker Kirllos is using New Zealand as a base to commit internet fraud.

Kirllos is offering the user names and passwords of 1.5 million Facebook users for between $35 and $62.70 per 1000 accounts sold on an underground hacker forum.

Full story at NZHerald

World Entrepreneur Day: Awakening the Entrepreneurial Spirit

cebudirectories — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:41:38 +0000

BBC World Fast:track visits the Philippines (Cebu)

cebudirectories — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:52:03 +0000

Rajan Datar looks into how the Philippines intend to overcome it’s image problem and entice more tourists to visit.

BBC World features Cebu, Philippines on their Fast:Track Show. Cebu prides itself of its wealth of natural resources, rich in history, culture and religion and this makes Cebu a perfect place for tourist to spend their vacation.

Cebu personalities like Joseph ‘Ace’ Durano, Christina Garcia-Codilla, Billy Modonedo, Remton Zuasola and Jason Hyatt were interviewed in the video.

Watch the video on BBC World Fast:Track

Disclaimer: The photos used in this publication were captured from the video. The video is owned by BBC World Fast:Track

HitWise: Facebook tops the Giant

cebudirectories — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:58:01 +0000

The week ending March 13, 2010 Facebook reaches Top Ranking in the US and became the most visited website for the week. Last September of 2007 Google fell to No. 2 from MySpace which is another social networking site.

“The market share of visits to Facebook.com increased 185% last week as compared to the same week in 2009, while visits to Google.com increased 9% during the same time frame.” – Heather Dougherty

Full Story at HitWise Intelligence.

The New World’s Richest Person

cebudirectories — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:54:25 +0000

Bill Gates is no longer the richest man in the world.

Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim Helu took the No. 1 spot on Forbes’ billionaire list this year.

Slim’s fortune has swelled to an estimated $53.5 billion, up $18.5 billion in 12 months. Shares of America Movil, of which Slim owns a $23 billion stake, were up 35% in a year.

Gates, now worth $53 billion, is ranked second in the world. He is up $13 billion from a year ago as shares of Microsoft rose 50% in 12 months. Gates’ holdings in his personal investment vehicle Cascade ( CAE – news – people ) also soared with the rest of the markets.

Full story at Forbes.