A multi-hour outage on the popular social networking site Facebook earlier today caused a fault with the site that let some users view other's personal site mail, but was not a hack, according to Facebook management.
The popular social-networking site Facebook is coming under increased attack by spammers and phishers, the company's security chief has revealed.
Salesforce.com has revealed few details about a security breach caused by a phishing attack against an employee that surrended internal customer database details.
Petko Petkov of ethical hacking group GNUCitizen, has developed a proof-of-concept program to steal contacts and incoming e-mails from Google Gmail users.
The first app launched under Google's OpenSocial API program has been taken down, shortly after it was discovered a hacker could use it to change user profiles.
Shortly after joining the social networking site, I received an e-mail telling me a friend had "written on my wall". Within two clicks I was logged-in and had full access to her Facebook account.
The world of IT security is in chaos, with CSOs seemingly on the front lines of a full scale global cyberwar being fought out by government hackers, botnet-controlling criminal gangs and compromised Web sites. Can we ever hope to keep networks safe in such an environment?
The explosion in drive-by download attacks continues to grow. How has the situation got so dangerous? Are there any "trusted" Web sites left?
Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.
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