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Having trouble using Wikipedia today? That's because the popular crowd-sourced online encyclopedia is participating in an "Internet blackout" in protest of two controversial anti-piracy bills: The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its Senate companion, the Protect IP Act (PIPA). The bills...

The latest bit of skullduggery involves using ascii characters to impersonate Facebook’s security team and steal credit card data from users of the social network. What are your thoughts? Click here to view the original post.

(CNN) -- Papa John's Pizza fired a cashier at one of its New York restaurants and apologized to an Asian-American customer for a receipt that identified her as "lady chinky eyes." "We were extremely concerned to learn of the receipt issued in New York," the company said in a statement posted on...

(CNN) -- A mother who says she was harassed and humiliated by employees while breastfeeding her baby at a Target store in Texas last month prompted a nationwide "nurse-in" on Wednesday to show support for the public practice. Michelle Hickman, 35, says she was nursing her 5-month-old infant at a...

A judge has set bond at $100,000 for a Chicago father who posted an image on Facebook depicting his 1-year-old daughter bound with duct tape on her mouth, wrists and ankles. Andre Curry, 21, was watching his 22-month-old daughter on Dec. 13 as the girl played with duct tape, according to...

The U.S. Department of Justice is defending computer hacking laws that make it a crime to use a fake name on Facebook or lie about your weight in an online dating profile at a site like Match.com. What are your thoughts? Click here to view the original post.

My dad discovered the Internet. Uh, just because someone raised you, does not mean that you have to add them on Facebook.

When you have a giant server farm that handles tons of traffic like the ones Facebook operates, the cost of keeping all that hardware cool is massive. Facebook has plans to build its latest massive server farm a mere 62 miles south of the Arctic Circle. The giant server farm will reportedly be...

Members of a hacking think-tank called Blackhat Academy claim that Facebook's URL scanning systems can be tricked into thinking malicious pages are clean by using simple content cloaking techniques. More...

Facebook is ignoring a serious shortcoming in the way it limits application developers' access to information about Facebook users, according to a pair of hackers. More...

Facebook just got safer, according to a press release last week from the social networking giant and the Internet security firm Websense. More...

Antivirus vendor Trend Micro has recently detected a drive-by download attack on Facebook that used malicious advertisements to infect users with malware. More...

With Facebook's constant stream of changes, keeping up with your privacy settings can be daunting. Here's a rundown of the newest features, what the changes mean to your privacy and how to update your settings More...

Facebook has partnered with security vendor Websense to protect its users from third-party malicious URLs spammed on the social networking website, the companies said on Monday. More...

Facebook is partnering with security firm Websense in an effort to protect its 700 million members from malware and malicious web sites. More...

Facebook's data retention practices are under investigation by Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner following a series of complaints filed by a European group critical of the social networking site. More...

Facebook's tracking technology has landed the social network in hot water, with two lawmakers calling for a Federal Trade Commission investigation. More...

If you care to keep your past in the past, Facebook's new version of the profile, called Timeline, makes that a little more difficult. More...

You may now be savvy enough to know that when a friend reaches out on Facebook and says they've been mugged in London and are in desperate need of cash, that it's a scam. But social engineers, the criminals that pull off these kinds of ploys by trying to trick you, are one step ahead. More...

Facebook's new Timeline will likely make it easier for crooks to mine the social network for personal information they can use to launch malicious attacks and steal passwords. More...