Recently, My gmail account was hacked by some botnet which sent out e-mails to all my contact asking them to check out a website. I only realized this when I checked my gmail "Sent Mail" folder and had to immediately send a warning message to all my contacts telling them that my account was hacked and not to click on any links from my previous mails.

I changed the password which solved the issue, but who knows, some other botnet might just be able to bruteforce My password and get me in trou...

Promising consequences if Google flouts China's censorship laws, Chinese authorities also chide the U.S. for its human rights record
By Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek USA

A top official of the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) recently warned Google that it will face consequences if it fails to obey Chinese laws.

According to an Associate Press report, Li Yizhong, head of the MIIT, said, "If you want to do something that disobeys Chinese law and regulations, you ...

IT security and control firm Sophos is warning that hackers are exploiting interest in last night's Oscar film awards ceremony to infect the computers of unsuspecting computer users.

According to the report "movie-loving Internet users are searching the web for information and gossip about the Academy Award winners, making phrases like "Oscars Winners" one of the most commonly searched for phrases on the Internet.  However, using SEO (search engine optimisation) techniques, hackers have create...

Over the next couple weeks you're gonna be getting a 2010 census letter in your mailbox and then a follow up call or visitor from a census worker. But beware, there are con artists out there that are looking this year as the census year and thinking as a gold mine opportunity to steal your private information. Apparently this happens every ten years. Now the big question is that what level of authorization do these Bureaucrats have to access our private/confidential information.

QUESTIONS THAT...