The security company Sophos warns of a malicious link that is now being spread quickly on Facebook. The link gives the impression to be be coming from CNN and will take you to a fake website claiming that the U.S. has invaded Iran and Saudi Arabia. The website also appears to ... Continue Reading

A man from Washington in the United States has filed a lawsuit against the security company Symantec, where he accuses the company of fraud and illegal practices. According to the lawsuit, Symantec uses the same kind of intimidation techniques as fake scareware software to sell its PC cleanup utilities. The man who submitted ... Continue Reading

Right now another spam attack is spreading on Facebook, trying to trick users to click on a video. According to David Jacoby at security company Kaspersky Lab the new spam attack started on Facebook this morning. The link that now spreads on Facebook has the text: "Laura Frisian: The Most Beautiful Ass ... Continue Reading

Facebook has teamed up with the data security company Websense to protect Facebook users from malicious code, often spread via links to third party sites. According to the press release from the two companies, a new warning system will be introduced, which enables the user to cancel the action, or get ... Continue Reading

Now it is confirmed that the website of the file sharing program µTorrent was hacked yesterday. Anyone who tried to download the program were tricked into downloading fake antivirus software. Via a message on their website µTorrent confirms, that during Tuesday afternoon, they were exposed to a hacker attack. This morning ... Continue Reading

The German activist group, the Independent Center for Privacy Protection (ULD), which protect Internet users privacy, claims that Facebook is using the Like button to track their users interests. The group argues that the procedure is illegal under both German and European data laws. According to the ULD, users must be ... Continue Reading

The security program SUPERAntiSpyware is a free software that can be used to remove malicious programs from your computer. Version 5 is now ready for download with a new user interface, which according to the developers, is more user friendly and has got a faster startup and the program will ... Continue Reading

Spammers are now sending out fake invitations to the newly launched Facebook competitor, Google+. The messages looks quite similar to emails that users would expect to receive from friends who are already members of the service. It is the IT security blog Naked Security who reports that scammers have begun sending ... Continue Reading

Just a few months after the launch of Firefox 4.0, Mozilla has decided that this version will no longer be supported. Firefox 4.0 only received one update, version 4.0.1, which was released in April. This means that in order to have a safe browser, you are recommended by Mozilla to ... Continue Reading

The satirical hacker group LulzSec (Lulz Security) brags on their Twitter account of an attack against the U.S. intelligence service CIA. Several U.S. media sites confirms that cia.gov were unavailable in periods Wednesday night, and may have been subject to a denial of service attack. Lulz admit to the same kind ... Continue Reading

A few hours ago, Skype announced in a Twitter message that a small number of users may struggle to connect to the service. But if you look at the amount of other messages about Skype during the last hour, it's probably a lot more than just "a small number of ... Continue Reading

According to the security company Trend Micro, thousands of users of the email service Hotmail recently got their emails stolen because of a bug in the web service. By sending a specially designed email, hackers could access the selected users private emails. The email that was used contained a special code ... Continue Reading