The growth of social networking proceeds! Now Microsoft has elected to add social networking functionality to its popular XBOX Live community platform.

Microsoft announced at E3 currently underway on Loas Angeles USA, that the new services will allow their Xbox Live users to keep communicate with their friends using services such as FaceBook, Twitter and similar services.

This move will further expand the reach of social networking services to include gamers with consoles.

The Twitter account of marketing guru Guy Kawasaki was hacked by adding a link to a sex site for a video download. The Twitter system then kicked in to push the link to some 1000,000 plus Twitter users. Users who followed the link would eventually get a message offering to update their video codec. The download contains the malware. The important lesson is that Twitter's immense popularity was bound ot lead to attacks like this. Thus we need to be alert to: not fall for these kind of lures be aware of how important our own security is when we use a service like Twitter (using a good password is a good start) Imagine Can you imagine the damage a hacker could create by sending Tweets that supposedly come from some celeb. The hacker could for example make a shocking statement that would seemingly come from the mouth of the celeb. The fake Tweet would be immediately picked up by the celeb's followers. Imagine the PR effort it would require for the denials alone! Thus we need to find out how K ...