Facebook, whose dizzying growth in recent years has been rumored to put a growing strain on its finances, has sold …
90 percent of e-mail is spam, Symantec says
Spammers seem to be working a little bit harder these days, according to Symantec, which reported that unsolicited e-mail made …
Facebook blocked in Iran ahead of elections
Social networking site Facebook has been blocked in Iran since Saturday, according to the country's opposition, as opposition voters increasingly …
Twitter hit with phishing attacks
Twitter users who thought friends were directing them to a “funny blog” Thursday ended up experiencing something completely different: a …
Facebook gives major boost to OpenID
Facebook has adopted the OpenID user-identity framework to simplify how people register for and log into the social networking site. …
Phishers harvest Facebook passwords for profit
Identity thieves that hit Facebook last week with a new round of phishing attacks are harvesting passwords for profit, a …
SAP expands business-intelligence strategy
SAP AG unveiled software for business intelligence and analytics, areas that are becoming integral to the strategy of the German …
Web 2.0 leaders struggle to maintain their top spots
The view from the top of the high-tech business world may be nice, but companies just need to look at …
Free, video-enabled Facebook app for Windows Mobile
Microsoft Corp. released a Facebook application that it says is the first that lets users upload videos straight from their …
160,000 accounts breached at UC Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) has begun notifying more than 160,000 students, alumni and others about the potential …
‘Hacker’ threatens to expose health data, demands $10M
Days after a hacker claimed to have broken into a database and encrypted millions of prescription records at the Virginia …
Striving for synergy
Citrix Synergy, which brings together virtualization, networking and application delivery together, got underway here in Las Vegas on Tuesday. MGM …
Attackers exploit Twitter , Myspace, Facebook
Cyberoam announced the Q1 2009 email threat report, in collaboration with partner Commtouch. While Conficker worm took the limelight, a …
LexisNexis says its data was used by fraudsters
LexisNexis acknowledged that criminals used its information retrieval service for more than three years to gather data that was used …
Motorola pushes ahead with Android phones by holiday season
Motorola Inc. is on track to have Android-based smartphones on sale in stores in time for the holiday buying season, …
Phishers hit Facebook with scam messages
Facebook users were hit with a phishing attack that tried to steal names and passwords from users of the popular …
Seven burning security questions
There's no shortage of burning questions about IT security these days, some sparked by nasty threats, others by economic concerns …
IBM establishes first cloud computing lab in Hong Kong
IBM announced Thursday it is establishing its first cloud computing lab in Hong Kong. The new facility, located in Hong …
Mobile’s future is in links, ex-Nokia CTO says
The standard architecture that will realize the promise of mobile phones won't be hardware or software but a cloud-based platform …
New Sidekick will get Exchange support
Despite its heritage as a phone aimed at the youth market, the latest version of the Sidekick mobile device will …