• Facebook Invasion: Beware of New 'Smart' Worm

  
  Hot on the heels of a reported hijacking of hundreds of Facebook groups, a new variation on an old worm is crawling its way into the social network's walls.

• Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010

  
  The Gartner Symposium serves up a selection of hottest issues and challenges for technology management in the next year.
• T-Mobile Customers Suffer Data Breach
• PlayStation Helps Feds Catch Pedophiles
• The PC World 100: Best Products of 2009
• Teen Jailed for Hacking Scientology Site
• Google's Free Airport Wi-Fi: Five Ways to Protect Yourself
• Kaspersky Unveils Antivirus for Mac
• Fake Payment Request Attack Ramps Up
• Top 5 Social Engineering Exploit Techniques

Security How-Tos

• How to Automate Windows 7 Backups How to set up and automate backups in Windows 7.
• Protect Your Privacy on Facebook and Twitter Here's how to safeguard your identity and your personal data in the age of the social Web.
• Which Updates Should I Install? When Dick McGraw checks Windows Update, he wonders which patches he should download and install
• What is Antivirus 2010? Lonerlady asked the Answer Line forum about this very insistent program
• Turn an Old Floppy Into a Password Safe If you're handy with a glue stick, you can put an unused 3.5-inch disk to good use as a "fake rock."

Security News

• Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010 The Gartner Symposium serves up a selection of hottest issues and challenges for technology management in the next year.
• PlayStation Helps Feds Catch Pedophiles The federal government is using Sony's PS3 to crack passwords and investigate suspected child pornographers.
• Teen Jailed for Hacking Scientology Site A New Jersey man was sentenced to a year in prison plus $37,500 fine for his role in a DDoS attack last year.
• Fake Payment Request Attack Ramps Up More than a million trojan-laden spam attacks are masquerading as a payment confirmation request.
• BlackBerry Security Exec Warns of Smartphone DDoS Attacks BlackBerry and smartphone security in general hasn't garnered much attention or concern over the past few years--at least from a consumer, or user, perspective. But that may change.

Security Playing in PCW Video

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  Palm Pixi: An Inexpensive Entry-Level Smartphone The Pixi, the second smartphone to run Palm's Web OS, could be considered the Palm Pre lite.
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  How to Automate Windows 7 Backups How to set up and automate backups in Windows 7.
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  Digital Demolition: Hard Drive vs. Flame Thrower! The ioSafe external hard drive is designed to withstand home catastrophes such as floods and fires. But can it survive the 3000-degree fire cannon?

Security Reviews

• Palm Pixi: An Inexpensive Entry-Level Smartphone The Pixi, the second smartphone to run Palm's Web OS, could be considered the Palm Pre lite.
• Avira AntiVir Personal Free Antivirus Software Avira AntiVir Personal offers great, thorough protection and top-notch scan speed, but some nontechies might find its interface frustrating.
• Panda Cloud Antivirus (Beta) Free Software Panda Cloud Antivirus provides great protection in an easy-to-use application, but it's still too deep in development to recommend.
• Comodo Internet Security Free Antivirus Software Comodo Internet Security is not a good antivirus choice, owing to its lackluster malware detection and its tendency to produce false positives.
• PC Tools Threatfire 4.5 Free Antivirus Software PC Tools' free behavior-based antivirus utility serves as a great supplement to your existing security software.