Take A Plunge

Today, the FTC settled a lengthy investigation into issues related to Twitter. The issues are related to Twitter’s lax security practices and protection of user accounts after two high-profile hacking incidents in 2009.

The first incident occurred in January, 2009 in which 35 high-profile accounts were compromised, including those of President Barack Obama, Bill O’Reilly, Britney Spears, the Huffington [...]

PCs always have different problems in their lives and often they create problems for the users. Now, a new startup Soluto wants to help restore your computer to its former glory. This startup will help you to find out what’s wrong with your computer.

Soluto’s software will monitor your PC for things that are annoying [...]

Tests are going to be sold at 6,000 of Walgreens’ 7,500 stores
If you want to know your chances of having Alzheimer’s disease, breast cancer, obesity, or suffering from other problems, it is possible. It’s all in your genes.

An San Diego startup called Pathway Genomics has compiled a variety of these tests, though, and is about to start selling [...]

A worm is spreading via Yahoo Instant Messenger. This worm tricks people into downloading what they think is a photo from a friend but is instead malware. The malware installs a backdoor on Windows systems and spreads to a victim’s IM contacts.

The worm arrives via a message from a contact with the word “photo” or [...]

BitDefender’s Malware City blog is warning users about a malware attack. This is probably the first case of malware spreading via a fake Google Chrome extension.
The attack begins with an e-mail which talks about a new Chrome extension that “will help you to better organize your documents received in your e-mail.” The e-mail shows a [...]