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Bookmarks for February 17th through February 18th

These are my links for February 17th through February 18th:

• You Can Use CSS3 Right Now | Design Informer - An article talking about progressive enhancement and leveraging features of CSS3 now in order to make designers lives easier.
• Awareness: Four Signs of an Easy Victim on Social Networks - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership - While many scammers rely on brute force methods, a disturbing trend is cyber-criminals stalking their targets using information gathered from social media tools.
• Rogue PDFs Account for 80% of All Exploits, Says Researcher - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership - As predicted before the year began, Flash and PDF are becoming hackers favorite targets. High install rate, low patch rate combine to make a easy target.
• The New Risks of Cyber-Chattiness - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership - "Individuals are simply revealing too much about their professional lives online. It might be possible, for example, to cross reference a Facebook post about a "big project that isn't looking good" with other posts and piece together sensitive corporate information. And while a LinkedIn request for a job recommendation reveals a job seeker, two or more seekers in the same division could reveal company upheaval."
• PCI Security Standards Council Readying New Payment-Card Security Standard - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership -
• 60+ .NET libraries every developer should know about. -
• Please Rob Me - "Listing all those empty homes out there" Friends don't let friends use foursquare.
• Housing affordability is near 18-year high - Feb. 17, 2010 - "The typical American family, who makes the nation's median income of $64,000 a year, could afford to buy 70.8% of all homes sold in the United States during the last three months of 2009"