It looks like honeymoon period for Pintrest is over, as the popular content sharing service has now become the target of scams, according to Bitdefender.

A remote access computer Trojan (RAT) designed to steal credit card details from hotel point-of-sale (PoS) applications is being sold on the underground forums, researchers from security firm Trusteer said in a blog post on Wednesday.

Security vendor expects malware to rise by 23 per cent in 2012 due to increased attacks on android devices and social networks

Financial services company, Westpac Group, has partnered with Internet security solutions provider, BitDefender, to offer customers a free one-year subscription to BitDefender Internet Security 2012.

A creative scheme that charges people via SMS for what should be a free copy of Adobe Systems' Flash player is apparently undergoing a test run on a Russian social network, according to security vendor Bitdefender.

An unpatched Yahoo Messenger vulnerability that allows attackers to change people's status messages and possibly perform other unauthorized actions can be exploited to spam malicious links to a large number of users.

The recent spam attack that planted pornographic images on Facebook was not the work of Anonymous, a security researcher said today.

Hackers apparently can be just as careless as their victims.