If you have a MySpace account, or even worse, have a child who uses MySpace, then I suggest you go immediately to your site and remove any photos, comments, or any other information you wouldn’t want leaking into the public domain.

Of course you might be a little late. Apparently a hacker used a security weakness to break into MySpace servers and steal more than half a million images uploaded by members. And now the photos are being posted free of charge on sites around the web where thousands of surfers have already downloaded them.

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If you receive an electronic card or e-card in the next few weeks that looks anything like a St. Valentine's Day card, be very careful about opening it.

Impatient hackers have begun their romancing season early this year and are sending out millions of spam emails and e-cards that link to infected web sites.

The infection waiting for your embrace is the Storm Trojan, one of the biggest security threats of last year. If you click on the card, expect to have your computer hijacked, data pilfered, and heart broken. Love really can hurt!

There’s not much to laugh about when it comes to identity theft, but this might give you a giggle. In a great case of “serves them right,” wannabe hackers around the world are getting a tough lesson in the laws of the jungle.

A hacking group from Morocco going by the handle “Mr. Brain” has jumped into the growing market for hacking and phishing kits with an irresistible offer to help it get noticed by "customers." It’s offering its kits for free. But there’s a nasty twist. The kit is designed to send stolen information back to Mr. Brain and not to the hackers who buy the kit.

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Maybe I’m too much of a softie, but sometimes I find myself looking for ways to forgive some companies for embarrassing data breaches that expose our data to thieves.

But it’s hard to forgive an organization like the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) whose entire focus is supposed to be on security and yet they still mess it up.

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A new study from the University of Southern California's Center for the Digital Future released yesterday found that for the first time in years there was a sharp increase in online privacy concerns amongst Americans, with 61% of adults concerned about privacy threats when buying online.

Hardly a surprise, when 2007 is now being described as the worst year on record for data breaches. And one of the reasons it’s only going to get worse is called “data utilization and optimization.”

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