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Virus creators are using celebrities to draw in traffic to their malicious sites through online search engines.  According to McAfee, the list of most dangerous celeb searches includes Brad Pitt, Beyonce, Jennifer Aniston, Tom Brady, and Jessica Simpson.  The top honors of the most dangerous searched celeb go to Jessica… Continue Reading »

Almost everyone has run across it and perhaps some of you have fallen for it - rogue anti-virus programs.  Also known as scareware, these programs are infesting the net, and researchers say they net the scammers behind them a staggering $34 million a month.  They work very simply, either a… Continue Reading »

Most people enjoy installing Facebook apps while using the social networking site, but according to a report by Trend Micro, you have to be wary of the apps that you use.  Currently, at least six applications have been identified by the Internet security firm including Posts, Your Photos, Stream, and… Continue Reading »

Three men have been indicted in what federal authorities are calling the largest identity theft case ever prosecuted.  The three men are accused of hacking into the files of Heartland Payment Systems between October 2006 and May 2008.  Heartland processes debit and credit card payment for over a quarter of… Continue Reading »

Twitter went down for a short time Saturday morning for reasons unknown.  They simply called it “unexpected downtime.”  In a blog post the company announced that once again they had to take their API offline as part of the repair process.  This frustrated many developers and users of third party… Continue Reading »

Digsby lets users hook up Facebook, Twitter, AIM, Google Talk, and Facebook Chat accounts into one convenient client.  LifeHacker recently published a good article which explains why Digsby is a bad client because of all the ways they try to install crapware along with their IM client.  I am inclined… Continue Reading »

Everyone loves Facebook.  It’s fun, it’s useful, and it can be downright addicting.  Thanks to its ever increasing popularity it can also be dangerous.  Hackers and scammers are well aware of the large audience on Facebook and do what they can to take advantage of it.  Here are a few… Continue Reading »

Two days ago Twitter was knocked off line by a large scale DDoS attack and although back online, the site is still under attack and fighting to keep from being knocked offline again. Some of the steps they’ve taken have affected third party apps that use Twitter’s API. As a… Continue Reading »

A new online scam targets the hundreds of thousands of unemployed people who use the net to job hunt and those who use it to fill job vacancies.  Scammers are posting fake job ads on Craigslist and the big job sites such as Monster.com and Careerbuilders and then taking the… Continue Reading »

Guests at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas may have had their financial information stolen by ATMs infected with malware.  The possible breach was first discovered by a conference presenter at the Defcon hacker conference.  He used one of the hotel’s ATMs to make an attempted withdrawal of $200.  The… Continue Reading »