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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Recently, a video tape was made showing ESPN reporter Erin Andrews undressing in her hotel room and is now being used by hackers to spread malware.

A recent explicit video was shot through a peephole in a hotel room of Erin Andrews undressing without her consent, has made its way onto the internet. Soon after, dozens of web sites appeared claiming to be links to the video, but in truth they were nothing more than a way to release a virus or malware into the user’s computer system.

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A hacker was able to break into a Twitter employee’s email account and uncover confidential Twitter documents.

The recent breach of a Twitter employee’s email account only adds to Twitters long list of security issues. Time and time again security researches have reemphasized that Twitter needs to restructure their over-all security. This recent even only underscores what people are already finding out about social networks, information, whether personal or confidential, is easily spread throughout these communities.

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Did you know that your digital photo files hold all sorts of interesting information?

From just a simple image file, you can find the date and time the picture was taken, the date it was modified, and the exposure information on your photo’s metadata? I didn’t, and I was surprised to learn that not only can your digital photo file tell you what make and model camera you used, but details about the lens and flash too.

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A security vendor’s demonstration video reveals how a malicious Twitter link can lead to the installation of malware.

Guy Kawasaki, a former Apple employee, venture capitalist, web site owner and book author, has spoken on many occasions about using Twitter as a social marketing tool. Kawasaki calls Twitter the most powerful marketing tool seen since television.

Unfortunately for this Twitter marketing professional and his followers, about 140,000 of them, had malware trolls attempt to get his followers to link to a rogue website that contained a fake sex tape involving “Gossip Girl” actress Leighton Meester. In addition to this, the domain prompted visitors to download malicious software in the form of video codecs which is a well-known tactic for spreading malware.

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