According to the Register, a London-based security consultant has created a tool which proves that “that MySpace and other social networking sites can represent a gaping chink in an otherwise hardened corporate network.” With the PKI Book, created by Petko D. Petkov, you can “type in the domain name of an organization you, er, want to get to know better” and “[i]t will return the email addresses of employees along with their MySpace profile.”

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that “[f]orty-one Bay Area firms have made Inc. magazine’s annual list of the 500 fastest-growing private U.S. companies. The group of fast-growing Bay Area firms is dominated by tech businesses such as Groupware Technology in Campbell, No. 7 nationally, and Santur in Fremont, No. 12.”

FT.com writes that “[t]he European Commission has lodged a formal antitrust complaint against Rambus, adding to pressure on the US company over the way it charges for technology that is widely used in the memory chip industry. The action followed a ruling against the company by the Federal Trade Commission in the US last year over a similar complaint. Rambus is appealing against that decision.”

Rediff.com says that “Google, the nearly $13.5 billion search engine major, is believed to be a fortnight away from the worldwide launch of its much-awaited Google Phone (Gphone) and has started talks with service providers in India for an exclusive launch on one of their networks.”

BBC News reports that “[j]obs portal Monster.com has released more details about the severity of the attack on its site. It said confidential details of more than 1.3 million people, mainly Americans, were stolen by malicious hackers who carried out the attack.”

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