Twitter has expanded the list of countries and cities for which it offers an official trends list. Australia got onto the trends list in the last update in November, and the only apparent change this time around is that you can now select Sydney as a specific trending location. I can hear the angry murmurs from Melbourne already. [Twitter Blog]
Online criminals move fast, seeking to take advantage of developments in the news or freshly-exposed vulnerabilities. Norton’s new Cybercrime Index site tracks current trends in the malware world, identifying the most commonly “poisoned” search terms, sites which are particularly dangerous and provided a daily percentage score measuring just how active cyber-criminals are.
