Facebook has been the victim of five different security problems in the past week, says Trend Micro. According to the security firm, four hoax applications have become available on the social network along with a new variation of the Koobface virus, which was first detected at the end of last year, and directs users to ...
Just in time for the weekend, social networks Facebook and MySpace were dealing with several new security issues on Friday that could expose personal information and communications from friends. Facebook said it had removed a new rogue application that was spamming users and exposing their information. Before it was halted, the application sent messages claiming ...
Isn’t running a Google Toolbar on Microsoft Internet Explorer a bit like painting a horse with black and white stripes? You might as well buy the zebra. Still, Google introduced its own Chrome browser well after it had shipped toolbars for IE and Firefox, so it may be only fair that a beta version of ...
Google has applied to participate as a third party in the European Commission’s effort to regulate the browser market and unbundle Internet Explorer from Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Google likes to tout the advantages of self-regulation and the free market when its dominance in search and advertising is called into question, but the Web giant ...