A clever spammer found a glitch in Facebook's photo upload system and used it to post thousands of unwanted Wall messages this week.

Imagine wandering through Times Square and seeing a 60-foot-tall animation depicting you (yes, you) as a creepy child-baiting ice cream truck driver. How would you feel? That's probably the question Google's Eric Schmidt is being asked today.

A school district in South Hadley, Massachusetts, is hoping a specialized software application will help stop tragedies like the one that befell Phoebe Prince, an Irish-born teen who committed suicide in January after an alleged bullying campaign by fellow students.

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Google is spending US$8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed over the rollout of its Google Buzz social-networking service.

A critical bug in QuickTime was reported to Apple two months before a second researcher independently revealed the vulnerability this week, the director of a bug bounty program said Friday.

Federal prosecutors this week charged nine former Sprint employees with fraud and aggravated identity theft after learning they had cloned customer cell phone numbers to make $15 million worth of calls. According to the complaint from federal prosecutors, the individuals who have been charged worked at Sprint stores in the Bronx, Bergen, N.J., and Tampa, Fla., and used company computers to get confidential information about thousands of customers. The data was used to create the so-called 'clone' cell phones. Of the $15 million worth of calls, a large percentage of them were international calls, said prosecutors.

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A Nigerian advance-fee scammer, Okpako Diamreyan, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison by a federal judge.

British scientists have noticed an eerie similarity between the mathematics of the quantum entanglement utilised by quantum computers, and that of black holes as explained by string theory.

IT virtual-security experts can now show off their knowledge with a certificate that shows they've mastered the contents of two cloud-security papers.

Armin Van Buuren is one of the world's most well-known trance music DJs. He also apparently has had his credit card details stolen.

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Organizers of a recent Defcon social engineering contest will release their results next week. One conclusion is that women did well in protecting corporate secrets.

Secunia has updated its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) with the ability to silently download and apply patches from multiple vendors soon after their release. PSI 2.0 is now available in an open beta test,

String theory of gravity connected to entanglement

British scientists have noticed an eerie similarity between the mathematics of the quantum entanglement utilised by quantum computers, and that of black holes as explained by string theory.

The software searches for vulnerabilities, looks for compliance problems and creates reports

An information security company will soon release a tool that will allow companies to test their ERP (enterprise resource planning) software for security threats.

Defcon social engineering contest finds most people give up secrets to strangers

Of the 135 people Fortune 500 employees targeted by social engineering hackers in a recent contest only five of them refused to give up any corporate information whatsoever. And guess what? All five were women.

Users will be able to use IP info to confirm if their account has been hacked in to and reset passwords

Facebook users will soon have a new way of knocking spammers out of legitimate accounts.

Automated tool is published that allows users to block attacks

Microsoft has again abstained from naming which of its Windows programs, if any, contain bugs that could lead to widespread "DLL load hijacking" attacks.