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Ubuntu Linux Mobile Phones On The Way The ever powerful and user-friendly Ubuntu Linux Distro Operating System is to storm the mobile Smart Phone arena, with the official launch of the Mobile Operating System recently, and developers already working on a variety of apps. So for Ubuntu folks like myself, it only gets better and better as open source technologies keep making the IT life more interesting, even towards the mobile platform! Cant wait to have one right in my palms!  :) 

250,000 HACKED USER ACCOUNTS: TWITTER TO INTRODUCE  TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION Following the recent attack on twitter over the weekend which resulted in compromise of over 250,000 users accounts, twitter is on the look-out for a competent software engineer to implement additional security layer for user logins to the social media cum micro-blogging website. Two-factor (multi-factor) authentication is a way of adding additional layer of security in addition to the regular username and password combination, usually in the form of additional random token generated by a hardware or software, or even a message received via SMS which is valid for a short period of time and cannot be chosen by the user or a potential hacker. It has become obvious that multi-factor authentication is the way to go in handling the simple but ever important authentication question of "who are you" we encounter on on web login forms every now and then!