Social networks
Seriously folks, you should know that Facebook warning about a virus *burning* your hard disk is bunk
Facebook users have been sharing a warning about a virus that "burns the entire hard disk".
It's nonsense, of course. When will people learn?
Syrian Electronic Army hacks NPR, vandalizes headlines
The Syrian Electronic Army appears to have hacked into accounts belonging to the NPR media network, and defaced news stories.
Uncool hacker blamed for unrevealing swimsuit photos of singer Victoria Justice
American singer Victoria Justice is not happy that someone (she blames a hacker) has leaked swimsuit photos of her onto the internet.
And she's quite right to be upset - both with the hacker, and the website that published them.
Monday review - the hot 21 stories of the week
In case you missed anything, here's everything we wrote in the past seven days.
Facebook Home - Great if you think privacy is dead
Facebook has introduced a new way to utilize its services on Android mobile phones. Facebook Home streamlines keeping in touch with friends, their photos, Likes and shares. The issue is how it impacts your privacy, even if you choose not to use it yourself.
Facebook experiments with profiting from celebrity stalkers and spammers
Facebook plans to charge UK users as much as £10.68 to send messages to top-tier celebrities (think Olympic gold medallist diver Tom Daley or former children’s laureate Michael Rosen) in an effort to stamp out spam. And, well, you know, to make money.
The 'What's Worse Security Championships finals' - Vote now
To honour the March Madness sporting finals, we adapted the concept and launched our very own What's Worse Security Championships. Join the thousands of others and place your vote now in the finals.
63 alleged NYC gangsters busted, thanks to their own Facebook blabbing
The alleged members of three rival drug and gun gangs apparently spoon-fed New York police, serving up allusions to their alleged crimes in slangy, atrociously spelled postings to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
Bill Gates offers $5000 for Facebook sharing? It's just not that funny
Bill Gates may be a billionaire, but if he's going to splash his cash around he's got better things to do with it than give it to people who simply share a photo of him on Facebook.
Monday review - the hot 17 stories of the week
Catch up with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
How to stop your friends' Facebook apps from accessing *your* private information
Many internet users are wary of sharing their personal information willy-nilly with the world, but did you know that sometimes it's your Facebook friends who might be unwittingly passing your private details on?
Monday review - the hot 13 stories of the week
Catch up with everything we've written in the last seven days with this handy weekly roundup
Rohypnol, rape and other disturbing content. Isn't it about time Facebook cleaned up its act?
Facebook should be doing more to protect its billion users from abuse, argues Graham Cluley.
Can any social network defend taking no proactive action against pages which promote date-rape drug Rohypnol and have obviously offensive content?
The 'What's Worse Security Championships'
With March Madness Basketball in full swing in America, we thought it might be fun to try and adapt the concept of sport championships to the land of IT security.
17-year-old arrested for hacking into phones, stealing and distributing explicit images of children
A US teenager is charged with distributing child pornography after allegedly hacking minors' cellphones through an SMS ad that installed malware, giving him access to the phones' content.
Monday review - the hot 21 stories of the week
It's weekly roundup time. Here's all the great stuff we've written in the past seven days.
Fake Zendesk security notice spammed out, directs traffic to Canadian drug websites
Should you trust the security notice you have just been emailed, telling you to watch out for scam emails and to use hard-to-crack passwords?
Perhaps not...
BBC Weather's Twitter account is hijacked by Syrian Electronic Army
The official Twitter account used by the BBC's weather team has been hijacked by Syrian hackers.
Fortunately, they don't seem to be using it to spread malicious links - but are instead trying to spread political messages about Syria instead.
Facebook plugs Timeline privacy hole
Facebook gets another blow from Europe v. Facebook, which discovered a flaw in the latest timeline redesign that allowed for unintended viewers to see all events a user has attended.
Monday review - the hot 32 stories of the week
It's that time of the week again - here's your roundup of everything we wrote in the last seven days.
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