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Bin Laden raid tweeted live

Admire Moyo
By Admire Moyo, ITWeb news editor.
Johannesburg, 03 May 2011

Bin Laden raid tweeted live

An IT consultant, living in Abbottabad, unknowingly tweeted details of the US-led operation as it happened, says the BBC.

Sohaib Athar wrote that a helicopter was hovering overhead shortly before the assault began and said it might not be a Pakistani aircraft.

He only became aware of the significance of his tweets after US president Barack Obama revealed details of Bin Laden's death.

Facebook a 'spying machine'

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has levelled his hyperbole gun at Facebook, calling it “the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented”, according to The Register.

In an interview with Russia Today, he complained that the Facebook databases, hosted in America, are within reach of American intelligence agencies.

“Here we have the world's most comprehensive database about people,” he said in the interview. “A database that includes relationships, names, addresses, locations and communications with each other; all accessible to US intelligence.”

Fake anti-virus targets Mac

A fake anti-virus application is targeting Mac OS X computers using Apple's Safari browser, reveals News Factor.com.

Cyber criminals pushing MAC Defender, named like the legitimate MacDefender anti-virus product, are manipulating keywords to push malicious sites to the top of search results.

According to security experts, Mac users who visit one of the malicious sites will see a fake Windows screen featuring an animated image of a malware scan, which reports that their computers have been infected and may automatically download the scareware.

S Korean police invade Google

South Korean police have raided Google's local office to investigate whether the global search company used its mobile phone advertising platform to illegally collect private data, states AFP.

Investigators were sent to Google's Seoul office to secure hard drives and other computer data related to its AdMob platform, a police cyber crime unit spokesman said.

“The raid followed allegations that Google's mobile advertising agency, AdMob, had illegally collected private data,” he said. Google officials were unavailable for comment.

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