Facebook Under Increased Spam Attacks

By Digital Trends Staff April 22, 2008

Facebook Under Increased Spam Attacks According to Facebook’s security chief, it was in January that the company first noticed a rise in hack attacks and realized they’d become a majortarget. Among them were phishing attacks on members taking the form e-mails that purport to be from Facebook. There had even been unsuccessful data harvesting attempts. One recent attack wastraced to a Seattle hosting service, he told an audience at the Infosecurity Europe conference, being held in London. However, further investigation revealedthat the service appeared to be paid by shell companies in Cyprus and Canada, so Facebook sent people to trace them. "We took action against the individuals and the companies, andobtained an injunction against their use of Facebook," he said, adding that they’d won a $500,000 judgment.

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If you had difficulty using Facebook and Instagram today, we have some news: you weren't alone. On Tuesday, March 5, both of the Meta-owned social media websites were experiencing outages, rendering them unusable for many people. This came after AT&T experienced a nationwide outage of its own last month.

When did this Facebook/Instagram outage start? Are any other websites down? Is the outage fixed? Here's everything we know.
When did the Facebook and Instagram outage start?
Looking at Down Detector, reports of Facebook and Instagram being down first started coming in a little before 10:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday. Reports spiked around 10:24 a.m., with over 500,000 outage reports coming in at that time.

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If you want a powerful processor, you can get a lot for your money at around the $400 mark. Both AMD and Intel have stellar options that offer high performance in gaming and productivity, and that even compete with the very best of the best that cost hundreds of dollars more. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D and Core i7-14700K have lots of cores, super-high clock speeds, and boatloads of cache. Here's how they stack up in a classic head-to-head comparison of the best CPUs under $400.
Pricing and availability
AMD launched the Ryzen 7 7800X3D in April 2023, just over six months after the debut of the rest of the Zen 4 generation of processors. It debuted with a price tag of $450, though that initially fell to $400, then to around $370, which is the price at most retailers at the time of this writing. Stock remains widely available, despite it being one of the most popular processors available today.

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The 6 best gaming PCs under $1,000 in 2024

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Buying yourself a gaming PC can be frustrating, especially with how expensive GPUs have gotten on the market recently. That said, you don't have to spend a huge amount of money on the game, and while you certainly won't be able to get high-end performance, you can certainly do something relatively good for less than $1,000. Interestingly, there are actually quite a lot of options for under $1,000, although they range heavily in quality, and it's nearly impossible to find a good gaming PC configuration from the big brand names that cost less than that.

To that end, we've done our best to collect the best picks under various categories. It's important to note that the more you spend at this price bracket, the more you're going to get out of it, which is unlike what you'd find at the higher-end, where you start getting diminishing returns. Of course, it's important to grab something you can afford and feel comfortable with, so be sure to check all the options below thoroughly before taking the plunge, and if you can swing a little extra, it will go a long way.
The Best Gaming PCs Under $1,000 in 2024