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Google is spending US$8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed over the rollout of its Google Buzz social-networking service.

A school district in South Hadley, Massachusetts, is hoping a specialized software application will help stop tragedies like the one that befell Phoebe Prince, an Irish-born teen who committed suicide in January after an alleged bullying campaign by fellow students.

A clever spammer found a glitch in Facebook’s photo upload system and used it to post thousands of unwanted Wall messages this week.

A Nigerian advance-fee scammer, Okpako Diamreyan, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison by a federal judge.

A widely used program for Web spidering can be hijacked for malicious purposes

Armin Van Buuren is one of the world’s most well-known trance music DJs. He also apparently has had his credit card details stolen.

16 best practices for preventing and detecting insider threats.

A critical bug in QuickTime was reported to Apple two months before a second researcher independently revealed the vulnerability this week, the director of a bug bounty program said Friday.

Germany will soon launch a service to help consumers remove malicious software from their computers in an attempt to stem the spread of spam-sending botnets.

Secunia has updated its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) with the ability to silently download and apply patches from multiple vendors soon after their release. PSI 2.0 is now available in an open beta test,