NCS 11/02/11

Published: Nov. 2, 2011, 8 p.m.

b'Microsoft Corp says hackers have used a previously unknown bug in its Windows operating system.\\xa0 Company officials say the hackers wanted to to infect computers with the Duqu virus, which some security experts say could be the next big cyber threat.\\n He may be a basketball superstar but even Shaquille O\\u2019Neal isn\\u2019t immune to hackers.\\xa0 O\\u2019Neal claims he hired a computer tech who stole O\\u2019Neal\\u2019s private emails and sold them for profit.\\xa0 The man even allegedly threatened to use the electronic communications to harm O\\u2019Neal unless O\\u2019Neal paid the man twelve million dollars.\\n If children are using Facebook too much, it could be partly their parent\\u2019s fault.\\xa0 A new survey showed that 36 percent of them were aware their children joined Facebook before age 13.\\xa0 It also shows that parents help their children lie about their age in order to join the social networking site.\\n Also check out the job of the day.'