Brian Donohue

As the tech and investment banking worlds eagerly anticipate Facebook’s long-awaited initial public offering, the world’s largest social network is trying to put stops to a suspicious, but arguably benign, plugin. Read more »

The number of malicious programs that target Google's Android mobile platform is growing at an alarming rate, according to data from anti-malware company F-Secure.  Read more »

An application programming interface (API) error on the popular Kickstarter crowdfunding website exposed the plans and descriptions of more than 70,000 yet-to-be launched projects. Read more »

Unknown hackers penetrated production servers and compromised databases belonging to the Bitcoin exchange, Bitcoinica, making off with some $87,000 worth of the digital currency, according to a statement published on the Bitcoinica Web site.  Read more »

Senator Al Franken (D-MN) is demanding answers to questions about the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) practice of gathering data from wireless providers in order to monitor individuals’ movements using mobile phone location data. Read more »

Apple released security updates yesterday that fix various vulnerabilities in Mac OS X and the Safari browser. Read more »

Researchers from the security firm AegisLab discovered more than 15 fake antivirus and free SMS applications on Google’s recently rebranded content market place, Google Play. Read more »

Some 63 percent of mobile device users are unsure about whether they trust the security of mobile technologies, according to Juniper Network’s Trusted Mobility Index [PDF].

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Microsoft released seven bulletins fixing 23 vulnerabilities in their patch Tuesday announcement today. The Redmond, Wash., software giant rated three of the bulletins as ‘critical,’ all of which could lead to remote code execution, and the remaining four as ‘important.’ Read more »

A new exploit kit hit the scene recently, and according to Arseny Levin of Spiderlabs, the RedKit exploit kit contains an API that generates new host-site URLs every hour. Read more »