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• What a Dumb Decade: The 87 Lamest Moments in Tech A year-by-year look back at the biggest blunders and goofiest stories of 2000 through 2009.
• Cyber Czar Choice: Smartphones, Social Networks Are Worries In choosing Howard Schmidt as cyber czar President Obama has gotten someone who has held a similar job in a previous administration and has varied experience.
• Privacy Guide for Kindle, Other E-Book Readers The Electronic Frontier Foundation put together a guide to the privacy policies and practices of Google Books, Amazon's Kindle, and other readers.
• Facebook Trojan: Brazen, but (Luckily) Benign Third-party application called "Phutos" was able to mimic Facebook's native functionality.
• Cybercrooks Target File-Sharing Networks Security experts at Kaspersky Labs warn that cybercriminals are shifting their focus from worms and spams to file-sharing services.
• Privacy Worries on Facebook? Just Wait A CMU researcher warns that technology needs to strike a balance between privacy concerns and useful data mining.
• Italian Police Arrest Hacker Sought for Fraud Italian police have arrested an alleged hacker who is accused of defrauding banks and mobile phone operators out of several million dollars.
• Twitter's DNS Provider Denies Hack Rerouting was managed from within Twitter's own account, says the microblogging site's domain manager.
• World Tech Update: Lawsuits, RFID, and PhotoDNA The EC ends its investigation of Microsoft, the FTC files a lawsuit against Intel, TeliaSonera launches an LTE network, and PhotoDNA helps find missing children.
• Google’s Dashboard Approach to Privacy Dashboard gathers privacy controls and settings for most Google services onto one page--but only for Google accounts.
• Bugs and Fixes: Zero-Day Patch for Internet Explorer 6 or 7 A critical bug in IE; plus patches for Office, Java, Shockwave, and Mac OS X.
• Predator Drone's Video Feed Hacked on the Cheap U.S. officials say Iraqi militants have obtained access to the drone’s video feeds by using $26 programs like SkyGrabber.
• Twitter Goes Down: Apparently Hacked? Twitter went down for a time late Thursday night, amid reports of a possible hack.
• Is Backing Up Online Safe? LaTonya Powell asked if online backup is really secure
• Mobile Tech: 11 Invaluable Accessories for On-the-Go Gear We’ve handpicked a clutch of the most useful travel gadgets, including a TSA-friendly suitcase, handy paper speakers, and a super-portable photo printer.
• Firefox Update Fixes Three Critical Flaws Version 3.5.6 of the open-source browser shores up security and stability issues.
• Mozilla Patches 10 Security Bugs With Firefox 3.5.6 Mozilla patched 10 bugs in Firefox, half of them critical, in the browser's rendering and JavaScript engines, media and video libraries, and other components.
• Android App Alert: Mobile Defense Hits the Market Want to protect your Android phone in case it's lost or stolen? An app just made widely available makes it easier than ever -- and it won't cost you a single cent.
• Adobe Reader Under Zero-Day Attack Online crooks are using an e-mailed .pdf to exploit a new zero-day flaw in Adobe Reader and Acrobat and install a Trojan.
• Adobe Probes New In-the-wild PDF Bug Adobe confirmed late on Monday that hackers are exploiting a vulnerability in the most up-to-date version of its PDF viewing and editing applications...
• Microsoft Patch Fixes Office 2003 Lockout Bug Microsoft on Saturday fixed a bug that locked out Office 2003 users from accessing documents safeguarded with the company's rights-management security technology.
• Facebook Privacy: Zuckerberg's Profile Unzipped Facebook CEO's Facebook page reveals the ups and downs of the social networking site's new privacy settings.
• Microsoft's 4 Challenges in 2010 2010 is a critical rebuilding year for the software giant, which must grow its assests and fend off hot rivals.
• Mozilla Endorses Bing Over Google Privacy Issues A Mozilla executive suggested Firefox users move to Bing for search functions, citing concerns over Google's stance on privacy.
• Fake Microsoft Endorsement Fuels Scareware A phony antivirus software package actually contains malware, in a new scam.