Facebook users have been warned about a spyware attack that promises to reveal hidden messages on an application that the social network offers.

The application Honesty Box, which allows users to send and receive “anonymous messages and discover what people really think of you”, has become the focus of hackers who want to steal Facebook users’ personal information for their own malicious purposes.

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A number of reports have come out warning that there is a security vulnerability in Twitter that enables anyone to access protected tweets via Google.

It was found that you can view almost all the tweets of an account if you enter “site:twitter.com/username” (replace username with the Twitter name) in the Google search engine. Inevitably, this caused an alarm among Twitter users that value their privacy.

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Bloggers using WordPress should be aware of a newly discovered vulnerability that could compromise their blog.

The popular blog publishing application and content management system, WordPress, has fallen under heavy fire lately due to a particularly nasty little worm circulating many users’ blogs who are still using outdated versions of the blogging software.

The vulnerability that allows this attack was discovered on August 11, causing WordPress to quickly spring into action, advising users to upgrade to version 2.8.4. Unfortunately, many people have yet to make the move to this latest version, and the worm is taking advantage of the hesitation.

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Attackers continue to target Facebook through rogue phishing applications to steal personal information that could lead to further attacks against unsuspecting computer users.

On Thursday, Facebook had stated it had disabled a total of six rogue applications that were attempting to steal Facebook user login credentials and spamming people. Unfortunately, mere hours later, more of these phishing applications appeared.

Five more, in fact, and according to Rik Ferguson, a researcher for Trend Micro, they have been identified under such names as “Matching”, “Pok”, “Friends”, “Friends Gifts” and “Your Photos”. By Thursday evening, these had been terminated as well. A spokeswoman for the social networking website stated that Facebook “will continue to ensure that all applications on Facebook Platform comply with Facebook policies.”

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Tracking Cookies have a questionable reputation and use throughout the Internet, and with their tip-toeing around the issue of privacy management, it’s no wonder Flash cookies are a great mystery to many computer users.

Currently it would seem new light has dawned on the matter of cookies in Adobe’s Flash, according to a paper by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.

The trouble seems to have started with a large number of users deleting their browser HTTP cookies periodically, which makes it difficult for mostly commerce sites to track the number of unique visitors accurately. Flash cookies have been a solution that fills in the missing link for sites suffering from this loss of data.

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On Thursday morning, the popular social networking site Twitter was a target of an ongoing denial of service attack, causing the website to suffer various intermittent problems along with a major outage that lasted several hours.

The ever-so-popular social networks, Twitter and Facebook, encountered network issues that resulted in degraded service for some Facebook users and a total outage for Twitter users.

Now while we know you are not personally responsible for bringing down these two powerhouses of the social networking realm, you may still hold some responsibility depending on how well-equipped your computer is with up-to-date anti-malware software and the latest version of your operating system.

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Those crafty rogue spyware removers appear to be increasing in both volume and the speed in which they are spreading from computer to computer.

According to a report released on Wednesday from PandaLabs, it appears to be tens of millions of systems that are infected with rogue anti-virus programs.

PandaLabs, the software security company responsible for many legitimate anti-virus applications, have released a report stating that over the course of just one year, the number of illegal anti-virus programs has increased from 1,000 to 111,000, and for the second quarter of 2009, that number had tripled.

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Recently a critical vulnerability was discovered in Adobe Flash Player versions 9.0.159.0 and 10.0.22.87.

A new vulnerability within Adobe Flash, was found to be a zero-day vulnerability that has yet to be patched. This same vulnerability appears to extend to Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat version 9.1.2, as well as earlier version 9 variants.

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Troj/AdClick-FR is known to be a Trojan horse that promotes an explicit media file that is actually designed to cause destruction.

Yet another addition to the recent influx of dangerous malware, Troj/AdClick-FR is a trojan virus that manifests itself on your computer in the form of a rather innocent-looking file called EroticPamela.mpg. There should be no surprise as to who this file might be referring to.

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Ever noticed that somehow an e-mail message was sent from you, to your friends and family, specifically asking them for money?

Hackers and email crooks are using webmail accounts belonging to other computer users to use for email schemes. Basically, these cybercrooks are breaking into such accounts and using the e-mail addresses for the purpose of sending messages bogus messages to computer users on the victims’ contact list asking them for money.

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