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Hundreds of Dropbox Passwords Leak Online, but No Hack

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Update] Hundreds of Dropbox passwords leaked online but Dropbox denies it was hacked. A thread surfaced on Reddit. Today that contained links to files containing hundreds of usernames and passwords for Dropbox. Accounts in plain text, but it’s unclear where they were obtained from. In four Pastebin files linked to from the site, a few hundred username and password pairs were listed in plain text as teases for a full leak from an anonymous user, who asked for Bitcoin donations for continued leaks. Dropbox...

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Update Firefox now: major vulnerability could steal your data

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Update Firefox now: major vulnerability could steal your data. Credit: http:/ www.wallpapershunt.com/wallpaper/firefox-logo-1920x1080 w2146.html. A major vulnerability discovered by Mozilla. Lurking in an advertisement shown by a Russian news site could steal your files and upload them to a Ukrainian server without you ever knowing. Another conference. Great. This one’s different, trust us. Our new event for New York is focused on quality, not quantity. All versions of Firefox are affected and Mozilla.

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European mobile networks plan to block ads

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European mobile networks reportedly plan to block all advertising, targeting Google. A report from the Financial Times today. Claims that European mobile networks are preparing to block advertising across the Web. According to the story, which cites anonymous sources, the carriers have installed software from Israeli ad-blocking firm Shine. In their data centers to block advertising in Web pages and apps, but not social networks. All Killer, No Filler. Which was also met with backlash. While these Europe...

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Here's why your Twitter app is looking different

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Here’s why your Twitter app is looking different. Credit: Owen Williams / TNW. There’s a lot of hooplah on Twitter. Today about well, Twitter. The company has just started a series of tests that tweak major changes to its design on iOS, including the replacement of the ‘fav’ button with a heart which we saw on Android. Another conference. Great. This one’s different, trust us. Our new event for New York is focused on quality, not quantity. Old vs New Twitter (old via Mic Wright. New via Nathan Bashaw.

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Spotify changed the color of its icon and it's driving people crazy

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Spotify changed the color of its icon and it’s driving people crazy. The latest update to Spotify. On iOS quietly introduced a new icon for the music streaming service. That new icon is. Close to the old one, except the company has tweaked the shade of green and it’s making people mad and confused. I woke up this morning to the new icon and can’t deal with it on my home screen something about the shade of green isn’t right. Another conference. Great. Cannot deal with the new shade of green of the #Spotify.

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Mega Passes 1M Users Within One Day of Launch

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Mega hits 1 million users after one day as Kim Dotcom officially launches the service. Credit: Owen Williams / TNW (2012). Mega, the new file sharing service from Kim Dotcom, has passed 1 million users, according to Kim Dotcom who spoke at the launch of the service at his mansion in New Zealand today. We’re here on the ground , where the larger than life internet mogul is set to launch his latest venture officially. Mega is now open to the public, but Dotcom doesn’t do anything without some. According to...

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Twitshot Makes It Easy To Tweet an Image With Every Link

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Twitshot makes it easy to tweet every link with an image. A website that automatically extracts images from pasted links and attaches them to tweets, today launched an iOS app that makes it an invaluable tool for anyone that uses Twitter. A Twitter study in 2014 showed that. Simply attaching an image to your tweet results in a 35 percent increase in retweets on average, so attaching images whenever you can is a good way to get attention. All Killer, No Filler. With its new iOS app. Share on Facebook (64).

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The Dark Side of Apple's Two-Factor Authentication

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2014/12/08/lost-apple-id-learnt-hard-way-careful-two-factor-authentication

The dark side of Apple’s two-factor authentication. Earlier this week, a strange message popped up on my Mac that I thought nothing of. You can’t sign in because your account was disabled for security reasons. I dismissed it in my tired haze, thinking it would solve itself and went to sleep. New York, are you ready? We’re building Momentum: an all killer, no filler event this November. I’d turned two-factor on my Apple ID in haste when I read Mat Honan’s harrowing story. The Apple support page. When I he...

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Owen Williams, Author at The Next Web

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Owen is a former reporter for TNW based in Amsterdam, now a freelance writer on the side. In his spare time he codes. Reads the news and cycles around the city. All stories by Owen. 5 things I desperately want from the Apple Watch 2. It's almost that time of year: Apple event season. Rumors are swirling about the next iPhone event, which is likely to be . Please stop saying tech inventions are going to kill each other. Everyone says Instagram Stories copied Snapchat but it's got a killer feature. Faceboo...

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Product Hunt Interviews Periscope On Where It Came From

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/03/27/product-hunt-interviews-periscope-where-it-came-from-and-its-pivot-from-photos-to-video

Product Hunt interviews Periscope: where it came from and its pivot from photos to video. The new video streaming app owned by Twitter. Launched today. In that time, we’ve seen users stream everything from their walk to work to an explosion in NYC. Jessica Verrilli, Director of corporate development and strategy at Twitter joined Kayvon Beykpour, co-founder of Periscope, and Aaron Wasserman the first engineer at Periscope to talk with Product Hunt. Live to discuss where the app came from and more. We nev...