Last November, the FBI arrested six Estonian nationals and shut down their DNSChanger operation. This cyber criminal ring had infected about 4 million machines with malware worldwide, about half a million of them in the United States. FBI caught 'em. End of story, right? Well, not entirely.

LG had the privilege of kicking off Monday’s marathon of press conferences at this year’s Consumer Electronics show.

LG is known as a manufacturer of smartphones, televisions, washing machines, refrigerators and other appliances, and the company took pains to make announcements that covered a variety of its products.

When researchers set out to test the effectiveness of two different behavioral weight-loss interventions, they thought the one involving face-to-face contact would yield better results. After all, don’t dieters need support and encouragement?

One in three college grads said that access to social media sites like Facebook and the ability to choose their own devices was more important to them than salary when considering a job offer. This according to a study of 2,800 college students and young professionals worldwide conducted by Cisco. More than 40% went so far as to say that they would accept less money for a job that was down with social media at work on a device of their choosing if it also included telework.

Social network sites may be changing people's brains as well as their social life, research suggests.

Brain scans show a direct link between the number of Facebook friends a person has and the size of certain parts of their brain.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Police say a Louisville man who stole a laptop made a critical error: he signed on to his Facebook page while the victim was monitoring the laptop remotely.

Some people have made strides in AIDS research by obtaining PhDs, winning research grants and applying years of dogged work in the laboratory -- but the latest breakthrough came from amateurs playing games on the Internet.

Facebook's facial recognition software might not be so harmless. A recent study from Carnegie Mellon finds that the technology can help researchers locate people's social security numbers, just from the information on their Facebook profiles and their photo.

Ecommerce firms need to think about how the 'attractiveness' of their websites can help generate trusting customers, a new report from the University of Melbourne suggests.

Its' study shows that despite the plethora of online scams and dubious websites, internet consumers are 20 percent more trusting of websites than they were five years ago.

However, this increased trust is tempered by the fact that 30 percent of online shoppers are less loyal to online businesses than in 2007.

The “TDL-4″ botnet now has more than 4.5 million infected PCs running on it and is the “most sophisticated threat” to computer security today, according to Kaspersky Labs researcher Sergey Golovanov.

Botnets are groups of malware-infected computers that are used for malicious activities, such as sending spam, stealing personal information, launching hacker attacks, and infecting other computers with viruses. They are so hard to defeat because there are so many infected machines.