Montreal, QC (NewsTechno) – AT&T experienced a security breach that has caught the attention of the FBI. Hackers obtained access to iPad owners’ email addresses. While the FBI is reluctant to divulge details of their investigation, they have confirmed that an investigation is underway.

AT&T automatically links its subscribers’ email addresses to their IPad ICC IDs. iPad ICC IDs were established to provide subscribers with an extra amount of convenience. By having linked identification numbers and emails, iPad 3G users can avoid repeatedly entering their email addresses when managing their accounts.

Instead of providing customers with convenience, AT&T provided hackers with a security hole. The group of hackers, which goes by the name of Goatse, alerted Gawker, a tech/gossip blog, of their actions. According to Gawker, the hackers retrieved 114,000 email addresses.

The email addresses of all iPad users were not compromised, and AT&T is committing itself to contacting customers whose information was retrieved by the hackers. However, customers who have been affected should be aware that no other information aside from their email addresses was compromised. iPad 3G users can be comforted knowing that AT&T is diligently working to fix the security hole to alleviate similar incidents from occurring in the future.

Montreal, QC (NewsTechno) – Social networking sites are not just used by people searching for friends, family members or relationships. Social networking sites have become a breeding ground for sexual predators. Tagged.com has come under fire for not making strives to address users’ reports of minors being sexually solicited and child pornography.

New York’s attorney general Andrew Cuomo has sent a letter to Tagged.com announcing his plans to sue the site for being in violation of trade laws and not ensuring users’ safety. The pending lawsuit against Tagged.com is reminiscent of similar trouble MySpace had with hundreds of sex offenders utilizing the site. In addition to users’ reports, Cuomo also had individuals from his camp create Tagged accounts and report incidents of child pornography. Images that Cuomo’s staff found included numerous instances of child pornography—bestiality scenarios and adults performing sexual acts.

For Attorney General Cuomo and many other Tagged users, Tagged.com has not made great strides to ensure that sexually explicit content is not uploaded or publicized on its site. Despite Tagged.com’s statement that it is currently working to resolve issues with the presence of sexually exploitive children’s images on its site, Attorney General Cuomo plans to carryout the lawsuit in the upcoming week.

Montreal, QC (NewsTechno) – Google released a statement on its Official Google Blog today that it has finally completed its work on Caffeine, a new web indexing system. Caffeine has the largest collection of web content that Google has ever offered. Users can expect to receive search results that are 50% fresher than the index that Google previously used. A faster index promises that links to the newest web content are available at faster rates than before. For those who publish web content, this means that their material will be available at faster speeds, shortly after being published.

Google first started working on Caffeine in August 2009. In its finished stage, Google states:

“With Caffeine, we analyze the web in small portions and update our search index on a continuous basis, globally. As we find new pages, or new information on existing pages, we can add these straight to the index.”

Google hopes that Caffeine will allow them to better manage the vast amounts of information that is available in an increasing number of formats on the web. Google’s old indexing system was composed of layers whose outermost layer was updated biweekly. Caffeine processes large amounts of web data parallel instead of linearly.