Tillmann Werner / threatpost:
The Inside Story of the Kelihos Botnet Takedown — Earlier this week, Microsoft released a n announcement about the disruption of a dangerous botnet that was responsible for spam messages, theft of sensitive financial information, pump-and-dump stock scams and distributed denial-of-service attacks.
Jon Mitchell / ReadWriteWeb:
AOL Is Building A MapQuest Social Network Called mqVibe — Something cool is coming to your neighborhood. AOL appears to be preparing us for some kind of neighborhood-based social network built around MapQuest (remember them?). It has registered a bunch of domains this year that all point …
Amazon.com:
Introducing “Amazon Silk”: Amazon’s Revolutionary Cloud-Accelerated Web Browser, Available Exclusively on Kindle Fire — Amazon’s cloud computing infrastructure and eight years of cloud computing expertise come together in new web browser for Kindle Fire—Amazon’s new Kindle for movies …
Matt Mastracci / grack.com:
Google+ upcoming feature discoveries: Google Experts, the Facebook wall and more — I was snooping around the Google+ source code, trying to get early access to the new circle sharing feature when I came across some interesting features that haven’t been discovered yet.