Cybercriminals Use Google Doodle Interest To Spread Malware

The US government has closed down many internet scam artists who were paying Google to post ads that made bogus promises to provide help to desperate homeowners who have been trying to avoid foreclosure. This action leads to...

Something funny (and dubious) happens when you try to search for the terms "iPhone 4", "iPhone 4S", "iPhone 3GS" or "iPhone 5" in the UK, you get some intriguing adverts popping up with incredibly low prices for the...

Google intervened very rapidly in the My Decor Eyes debacle, a site that actively seeked negative advertisement because it managed to use Google's algorithm to its own advantage. It based its whole search strategy on the fact...

Google has said that it will stop doing business in China unless it can operate without government-imposed censorship. The announcement follows hacks of Google's systems that it said were intended to snoop on the email accounts...

Google said it will stop self-censoring search results delivered to users in China. The firm said the decision follows the discovery of a hacking attack on the Gmail accounts of human rights activists in the territory. The...

Online thieves are using one of the oldest tricks in the book, fear, to get people into parting with thieir hard earned cash on fake security software which ironically make their computers even more vulnerable to...

If there's two things that the discovery of tens of thousands of compromised email accounts showed us is that phishing is unfortunately common and that having one password that gives access to a number of services is nothing...

Google is not the publisher of defamatory words that appear in its search results, the High Court ruled yesterday. Even when Google had been told that its results contained libellous words, it was not liable as a publisher, said...

In a landmark decision for the UK defamation law, a court in the UK has ruled that the search engine bellwether Google is “not” responsible for any defamatory remarks that appear in articles, blogs, and forums showed...

British Justice Secretary Jack Straw, is facing embarrassment after it has been revealed that computers used in his offices back in Blackburn had been hacked into and his Hotmail details stolen. Straw revealed that online...

Just hours after the Google’s famed email service, Gmail, experienced a severe outage, a new phishing scam has reportedly hit Google Talk, the instant message service embedded in the Gmail application.  Users who have...

MyIdentityDefender provides users protection from online identity theft, scams, spyware, adware, viruses and phishing by blocking visits to harmful sites that could infect computers with viruses and spyware, capture personal data...

Last night, I did one last quick email check before calling it a night and saw a message from a friend who works with a small non-profit.She’d forwarded the Barbara Moratek spam, greatly concerned about it.I took a quick...

Almost gone are the days when banks were robbed by a bunch of mean looking guys with ram trucks, balaclavas, guns, and get-away cars, holding staff and innocent customers hostage.Prospective robbers now face armed security...

It seems that, following an investigation last week by Exploit Prevention Labs, the reputation of Google's Adwords system has taken a battering.As I've reported on here before, Adwords is a low-cost way of individuals and small...