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United States President Barack Obama revealed that he had lifted some technology experts to join the team of telecommunications security adviser, and one person who had the honor to occupy that position is Dick Costolo, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Twitter.

Dick Costolo elected along with other elected members of the team, as Vice President of Trustworthy Computing Scott Charney; Computer Security Company McAfee's president, David DeWalt, and Lisa Hook as Head of Global Communications Technology for technology firm Neustar. They will work together in the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.

Also joining the team, Jamie Dos Santos, chairman of Terremark Worldwide group that maintains information technology and the federal government. This condition is an ideal composition for support in order to handle security problems in Barack Obama communications . And very proud when a President has a great team like them and will certainly be the envy of every country because the number of qualified human resources are successfully produced by the United States.

"I am proud to appoint a number of great men and women to fill this position. I am also grateful because they have agreed to donate their extraordinary talents to this government," Barack Obama said at a press conference at the White House.

"I can not wait to get to work with them for months and even years to come," he added, as quoted by the Straits Times on Saturday (05/28/2011).

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Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Twitter, Greg Pass, leaving the microblogging site to continue his career elsewhere, as the news reported by Tech Crunch, Saturday (05/21/2011).

Prior positions CTO Twitter, Pass is a Vice President of Engineering popular microblogging site. The position was achieved after becoming the CTO and co-founder Summize, a startup that was acquired Twitter, in July 2008 ago, and eventually evolved into Twitter Search.

Although initially reluctant to make comments, Twitter has finally confirmed the news through its co-founder, Biz Stone, by his account, @ biz.

"Twitter Summize acquired three years ago, cofounder @ gregpass continue his career elsewhere. We are fortunate to have him for so long," that is written in Stone Twitter account.

On another occasion, a spokesman for Twitter, Sean Garrett, stating that, at this time the company has its headquarters in San Francisco, is not planning to seek a replacement Pass. Meanwhile, Pass own future can not be ascertained.

Once aware of the weaknesses in the security of their Android platform, which allows the username and password for Google Calendar, Facebook, Twitter and other services easily be stolen through a network of public Wi-Fi, Google immediately take corrective measures to resolve the issue.

The problem was known after some German scientists have found that the Android platform have been using the authentication can be infiltrated hackers, when Android devices are connected with wi-fi networks are not secure.

Hackers can create a derivative of wi-fi networks in public locations by using the well-known brands such as Starbucks or T-Mobile. Android devices will automatically connect to a network that has been logged for later synchronize the application. Although this synchronization effort can not be done, but the hackers have managed to obtain user authentication.

Aware of these shortcomings, Google immediately react. "We started to make improvements to the security weaknesses (Android) which, in certain circumstances, allow third parties to access data in Calendar and Contacts," said Google spokesman explained.

"Android Users do not need to do anything, these improvements will run by itself within a few days ahead," he added as quoted by Cnet on Thursday (05/19/2011).

Improvements made Google is 'forced' Android devices to connect to the server Google Calendar and Contacts via https (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure), so that OS authentication is used to validate the device can not be stolen.