Facebook Timeline: because there is more space for any other competitor in the social network's Zuckerberg

I waited a week before writing this post. A week in which I started to use Facebook with the same curiosity and interest when I created my profile in June 2007.

Zuckerberg has done it again. The introduction of the Timeline is not only the natural evolution of the old profiles, but most of all, is the perfect platform for the digital transposition of its life on social networks that, in recent years, had the merit of having irreversibly changed our habits and the way we interact online.

The concept of the Timeline, to be true, is not an invention of Palo Alto. In the recent past have tried to introduce it, without success, other social networks in complete anonymity. With Facebook will go differently.

Just imagine the possibilities from this time onwards. Facebook was already a hub of information which collected the daily life of millions of people. With the introduction of the Timeline becomes the historical memory of humanity. It's an idea fascinating as impressive. A huge backup of life of millions of people online.

Suddenly Google +, which I always used in parallel and for which I spent all my recent post positive comments, it has become obsolete and very unattractive, distant geological era from its unrivalled competitor. And so, aside from Twitter, is for everyone else.

There is no more space for anyone. Facebook won

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Not again: Sony’s online game networks get attacked, 93,000 accounts compromised

Sony said tonight that hackers have once attacked the company’s online gaming networks, and this time they have broken into 93,000 accounts. The new hack will bring back bad memories from April, when the PlayStation Network and its sister network Sony Online Entertainment went down for weeks because of a hacker attack.

Philip Reitinger, the newly hired chief information security officer at Sony, said in a blog post that Sony had detected attacks on the Sony Entertainment Network, the PlayStation Network, and the Sony Online Entertainment online gaming service. The hacking attempts tested a massive set of sign-ins and passwords against Sony’s network database. Most of those attempts failed, but the attacks succeeded in penetrating 93,000 accounts.

Sony said that a small percentage of the username and password combinations that were tried actually worked. That suggests that the hackers were using a brute force method to attack, and that the database the hackers were using came from outside of Sony.

Sony has temporarily blocked those accounts, which included 60,000 PSN and SEN accounts, and 33,000 SOE accounts. In those cases, the hackers succeeded in verifying usernames and passwords for the accounts. Only a small fraction of the accounts saw activity before they were locked  down by Sony. The company is currently reviewing those accounts for unauthorized access and it will provide more data once it finds out.

Reitinger said that if users have a credit card associated with the account, the credit card number is not at risk of being stolen. But it is possible that hackers have made unauthorized purchases. Sony is now requiring users to reset their passwords for the PSN and SEN accounts. Affected users will receive an email notification from Sony. The SOE accounts that were affected have also been turned off. Affected users will get an email with Sony requiring them to verify their account in order to have it turned back on. Sony is encouraging users to use strong passwords.

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