Apple's Ping dinged by spam The new iTunes-based social network is getting hit by comment spam since Apple apparently left it vulnerable through a lack spam or URL filtering, according to Sophos.
U.N. exec: Cyberwar could be 'worse than tsunami' Proposal for a global "cyberpeace" treaty has met "a lot of resistance" from industrialized nations, says head of U.N.'s International Telecommunication Union.
Facebook adds new remote log-out security feature Facebook users who log in from multiple devices will soon have a way to make sure they are only logged in on the computer they are currently using.
Nigerian scam tops list of decade's online cons Notices of winning the lottery and requests from Russian women who want to know you better are also up there on Panda Security's ranking of decade's top Net swindles.
Twitter plans to record all links clicked In a move that could raise privacy concerns, the microblogging site said Wednesday evening that it will record and analyze every link users click on when using its Web site or any of the thousands of third-party apps.
China requires cell phone subscriber IDs New subscribers are asked for identification and existing subscribers are being encouraged to register their IDs with their numbers in what the Chinese government calls a crackdown on spam and fraud.
