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February 2, 2013, 12:10 PM

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Keeping our users secure — As you may have read, there's been a recent uptick in large-scale security attacks aimed at U.S. technology and media companies. Within the last two weeks, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have chronicled breaches of their systems …

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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter Hacked, 250,000 User Accounts Potentially Compromised — Twitter disclosed on Friday evening that its systems had been attacked in the past week by an unidentified group of hackers. As a result of the the attack, the hackers may have had access to the usernames …

More: NYT Bits, DAWN.COM, BestTechie, ZDNet and CNET

Tweets: @tim, @om and @dannysullivan

Connor Simpson / The Atlantic Wire:

China May (or May Not) Be Behind the Twitter Hack — You may not have heard, but roughly 250,000 Twitter accounts may have been compromised by hackers. There's a theory that — if you read between the lines — Twitter is implying the Chinese are to blame for compromising their security.

Tweets: @ravisomaiya and @pbump

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Path and the FTC — Today the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it reached a settlement pending court approval with Path regarding alleged violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protections Act (COPPA). The gist of the FTC's complaint is this: early in Path's history …

Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:

The Best Parenting App Is Against The Law — Outdated rules and overzealous regulators mean kids can't use Path. Stop COPPA! — Via: path.com — The Federal Trade Commission levied a $800,000 fine on the social networking service Path Friday morning for having, among other things …

More: New York Times, CNET and iPhone Hacks

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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

FTC Still Seems More Interested In Making Headlines Than Really Protecting Privacy

More: BtoB Magazine, Engadget and AllThingsD

Casey Newton / CNET:

Privacy at risk as Path app lets location data slip

More: SocialTimes, EEQJ, NYT Bits, The Verge, App Advice, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, Ars Technica, The Next Web, PC Magazine, VentureBeat and Federal Trade Commission. Tweets: @jason_diaz. Thanks:@caseynewton

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Google shares hit all-time high — The company's stock, which rose to $775.32 today, contrasts with the stock performance of rival Apple. — It's not a bad day to be Google. — The search giant's shares soared to an all-time high today amid hopes it will soon resolve its European antitrust issues.

More: Search Engine Watch, Wall Street Journal, Mumbai, Business Insider and Associated Press

Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:

Washington Post Joins List of News Media Hacked by the Chinese — SAN FRANCISCO — The question is no longer who has been hacked. It's who hasn't? — The Washington Post can be added to the growing list of American news organizations whose computers have been penetrated by Chinese hackers.

More: Washington Post, The Next Web, SlashGear, Daily Mail, The Verge, Associated Press and Krebs on Security

Tweets: @ericfish85 and @gaberivera

ChinaFile:

China's Cyberattacks — At What Cost?

More: InfoWorld. Thanks:@niubi

David Hornik / VentureBlog:

Secondary Market Stupidity — I have heard of short term memory, but this borders on amnesia. Were the buyers in this latest secondary transaction (Twitter at $10B) asleep during the Facebook IPO? Did they miss the part where lots of well intentioned “investors” bought Facebook shares at $80B …

More: AllTwitter, CNET, ValueWalk and Fortune. Tweets: @davidhornik

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Apple Takes 3 Of Top 5 Spots In U.S. Mobile Phone Sales For Q4 2012, Says NPD — Apple has managed to nab three of the top 5 spots for the top-selling mobile phones in the U.S. during Q4 2012 according to the NPD Group, with the iPhone 5, iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 ranking first, third and fourth, respectively.

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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Facebook re-enables Tag Suggestions facial-recognition feature in the US, on by default for all — Facebook has announced it has brought back its photo Tag Suggestions feature to the US after temporarily suspending it last year to make some technical improvements.

More: Facebook, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, digitaltrends.com, AllFacebook, Inside Facebook, PandoDaily and Daily Dot

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Chrome, IE, Silk pry open mobile-browsing market — Newer arrivals on smartphones and tablets have only a small part of the market, but that could be a foot in the door. — New mobile browsers including Google's Chrome, Microsoft's IE, and Amazon's Silk are gaining a foothold …

More: The Next Web

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