Six out of 10 Facebook users ready to quit

Sony is about to enter into a deal to buy Telefon’s AB LM Ericsson with which Sony already has their smartphone joint venture. This will lead to complete ownership of Ericsson by Sony Corp. It seems that this step will...

Hacktivism collective Anonymous has suffered a taste of its own medicine, with its recently-formed pro-anonymity social networking service Anon+ falling foul of Turkish hackers.Anon+ was formed when an account registered by...

Only a few days after its launch, Google’s social networking platform, Google+, has been exploited in a massive spam campaign.According to a post on the Naked Security blog run by security firm Sophos, scammers are sending...

A group of hackers calling themselves 'Lulz Security' managed to gain access to a server belonging to Fox Broadcasting and subsequently published employees' usernames and passwords on the web. The hackers who managed to...

Google, Facebook and a host of other big names have warned against a proposed privacy mechanism that will allow consumers to opt out of cookies and other forms of online tracking, in an open letter to California legislators....

The death of Bin Laden has given hackers another guise to hide fake antivrus software for the Mac OS X, taking advantage of the widespread popularity of the news.According to a report on the Naked Security blog run by security...

Malware, spam and phishing attacks carried out via Facebook and other social networking platforms doubled in 2010, according to a report released today by security company Sophos. From iPhones to scareware, we look at the top...

Apple has refused to attend a conference on web privacy called by a group of US senators, who are now showing keen interest in what exactly the company has to hide.  Search giant Google also refused to attend the...

German prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation against Google over the 'mistakenly' collected Wi-Fi data. Google have been ordered to hand over the hard drive by 26 May.Twitter has released a revamped version of the...

App developer Untangle has released a tool that allows users to turn all their Facebook profile settings back to private. The application, SaveFace, allows users to reverse changes made by the company when it announced its Open...

Facebook users are being warned about a new type of cyber conmen operating on the popular social networking website who try to extract money from users by hijacking users accounts and asking for money. Their modus operandi...

Users of popular social networking website Facebook are facing yet another malware attack as security firm Sophos exposed video downloads message as potential vectors of infection. The video prompt pops on the user's Facebook...

A survey by recruitment firm Badenoch and Clark shows that 75 percent of UK employees affirm that they do not access social networking websites - like Bebo, Facebook or Myspace - during office hours. That's a far cry from what...