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Dennis Hood, a South Australian Family First MP, is drafting a bill that would force Facebook, the most popular social network site in Australia and the rest of the world, to give parents a bigger say in activities of their children over the Internet.

The Central Intelligence Agency, which engages in covert activities at the request of the President of the United States, has been the latest victim of notorious hacking group LulzSec.

The hacker group LulzSec pulled off another high profile hack when it claimed credit for taking down the CIA's website for a couple of hours this Wednesday. The group posted a tweet at their page saying: "Tango down- cia.gov- for the lulz." The site was back up by 8 pm according to the Washington Post.

The string of hacking incidents around the world that targeted global firms such as Sony and Lockheed Martin may have prompted Aussie government agencies and private companies to step up their online security protocol but such is not the case, according to the latest Auditor General report.

LulzSec has an ancient Greek sailboat mimicking the Odyssey, with a distinctive sail "LOL" on its webpage. Recently, it has indeed rammed through firewalls of companies including Sony Corp. and has even threatened the United States government websites.

Today, hundreds of Commonwealth Bank customers have been left struggling to access their accounts, complete bill payments, transfers, and international money transfers.

Among the assets of Nortel remaining are its patents and patent applications. Search giant Google Inc. has inked a deal to lead an auction for the patents with its $900 million offer to buy the patents. The Google-led auction supervised by a bankruptcy court in the United States will be held on June 20 at the offices of law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York. The bankruptcy court will evaluate the auction results at the end of the month.

Amidst the industry's focus on growing popularity of smartphones and tablets, Google, Inc., operator of the world's most popular search engine, said at an event in San Francisco California, it has made improvements for conducting Web searches in desktops, the device still used for the bulk of queries in Google.

The day after the NBA Finals, the Miami Herald ran a story about the Heat's disappointing loss. However, to everyone's surprise, a full-page ad under the story reads "Congratulations Miami" next to photos of Heat championship T-shirts and hats on sale from Macy's. A T-shirt on the add says "Heat 2011 NBA Finals Champions". The Heat's logo on a hat has the words "NBA Champions."

Where internet access is deliberately restricted by authorities, the U.S. hopes to provide succour through its reported $2 million ‘internet in a suitcase’ plan that will roll out online emergency lines to nationals under extreme duress from their own governments.

For a steep price of $5,500, you can now order a handmade and beautifully crafted steampunk design laptop.

Facebook hit 687 million users worldwide at the start of June, increasing its total monthly audience by 1.7%, according to a new study by research and marketing group Inside Facebook.

Australian actor Russell Crowe apologized over his tweets against circumcision, a ritual practiced by Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Thursday night, he said in his Twitter account, "Circumcision is barbaric and stupid. Who are you to correct nature? Is it real that GOD requires a donation of foreskin? Babies are perfect."

After 14 years, Duke Nukem has finally reached shelves and online in Duke Nukem Forever, though the "steroidal one-man army who never fails and always get the babes" may no longer be that appealing to today's gamers.

Male teenagers mostly from Queensland recently created sex-rating pages called “root rater” Facebook groups. In relation to this, page users were affiliated through universities, geographical location or sexual preference.

The plunging stock market value of Nintendo this week caught the Japanese game console maker by surprise, which came following the Tuesday launch of its next-generation Wii U.

Midas Medici Group Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: MMED), an innovative green IT company in the fields of virtualization, cloud computing and data management, as well as Smart Grid solutions, today announced that its Czech Republic-based CommodityPoint business has acquired the assets of Energy Hedge Fund Center, LLC ("EHFC"), a web portal and community for clients interested in hedge funds in the energy and commodity sectors.

Google came out with its new '+1" button. This is Google's newest foray into the social scene, although they claim this is yet the social network to rival Facebook. The +1 button is a small icon that will become featured in searches done on Google. The idea is that when you see a search result you like, you will +1 it, thus telling others in your Google social group that you like the result.

Facebook, the world's most popular social networking site, has rolled out a facial recognition technology to identify people in photos uploaded on its website, but the feature has stirred up controversy due to privacy issues.

The security breach at Citigroup Inc., which lost personal information of 210,000 credit card customers to hackers, is just the latest of a string of cyber attacks on high-profile companies.

A swarm of little monsters have been attacking musician Patrick Carney of the Black Keys on Twitter for pointing out the similarities between the Judas singer and Madonna.

Giant social media firm Facebook acknowledged on Wednesday that it erred in not communicating enough to users that the facial recognition technology currently deployed on its site has been turned on by default.

Sony Corp.'s film studio said yesterday it has provided notice to the approximately 37,500 people who may have had some personally identifiable information stolen during the recent attack on sonypictures.com.

Finland-based Nokia is now facing the challenge to raise its market share amidst debt rating cut to the lowest investment grade by Fitch Ratings due to the declining market share of its Symbian smartphones.

Today, June 8, over 400 websites will offer their content over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), the next generation internet protocol (IP) designed as a long-term solution to the address exhaustion of the 30-year-old IPv4.

Sony cut off its Brazilian music entertainment website while it looks into a possible breach. Sony also is investigating a hacker group's claim that it stole data related to the company's game operation. The possible attack on Sony's Brazilian website may have altered some content, a spokesman said.

By the end the year, most Australian newspapers will be charging for the content they post online, following the success of leading business daily The Wall Street Journal and amid softening revenues for newspapers from print subscriptions and advertisements.

Yahoo Inc., the second most popular search engine, said in its official blog site last week that among the billions of searches that course through Yahoo!, there are bound to be oodles of misspellings. After all, one reason that people search is to figure out an unfamiliar concept, like who the heck this Justine Bieber (aka Justin Bieber) is, or where can you get these Zoo Zoo Pets (aka Zhu Zhu Pets) that the kids are yammering about.

he same group, "LulzSec," that attacked Sony Corp's film site also went to destroy an FBI-affiliated Web site in Atlanta in retribution to the NATO alliance's "act of war" against hackers.