It seems the last week or so has been a fun time to promote not only the World Cup, but also various bits of software you might not want on your PC. Here’s a collection of Shakira uploads on Youtube, …

Scribd is a website that lets users share written content online, converting Powerpoint, PDFs and Word documents into web documents that can be viewed through sites such as Facebook and other social networking services. It was inevitable, then, that a …

We’re seeing a lot of reports in relation to dubious Facebook pages using Javascript to try and spam anybody who happens to be on your friends list. Here’s a typical example: Should the end-user hit the “Click here” button, rather …

iTunes Gift cards can be pretty expensive, and of course this means there are people who will quite happily go to great lengths to take them from you. While looking around a fake Facebook Hack website, I noticed something else …

Consumer Reports has published results of its “State of the Net” survey in the June 2010 magazine. Bottom line: there are twice as many people using social media as a year ago and a lot of them aren’t very security …

It seems Larry Hryb, Director of XBox Live Programming, had his account taken over at the weekend. However, there are a number of faintly hysterical headlines claiming he was “hacked” along with “are you next?” taglines (such as this one), …

USA Today is reporting that federal law enforcement agencies have taken more than 170 complaints about Haiti earthquake relief scams. They expect more on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. The scams include spam email, fraudulent web sites …

Our good friends at Broomfield, Colo., security firm eSoft have found an interesting scam to trick Internet users into installing the Hotbar adware: a fake Firefox download site. The eSoft researchers are theorizing that an affiliate of Pinball Publisher Network …

It’s the time of year to make predictions. I only have one: in 2010, governments around the world will BEGIN to increase their efforts to do something about the massive malware threat that every Internet user on the planet faces. …

There are at least two Facebook “change-your-password” scams circulating in spam. Here’s the first one. It tries to lure you to a malicious site to steal your Facebook login information. A second one comes with an attachment that installs the …