Under that system, green, at the bottom, signals a low danger of attack; blue signals a general risk; yellow, a significant risk; orange, a high risk, and red, at the top, warns of a severe threat.

It must be manually activated from an “Account Settings” page on Facebook.

A WEF report released as a preview to discussions planned at the conference this week highlighted cyber attacks and the possibility of “all-out cyber warfare” as a major threat.

In the lawsuit, Oracle claims that Google “knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle’s Java-related intellectual property” in the development and distribution of the Android operating system.

The latest Google Chrome 8.0.552.237, available for all platforms, patches a total of 16 documented vulnerabilties, including one critical bug for which Google paid the first elite $3133.7 award to researcher Sergey Glazunov.

The price of a malware toolkit has risen substantially, Scroggie said, from about $15 in 2006 to more than $8000 today.

U.S. prosecutors have charged two men with stealing and distributing email addresses for about 120,000 users of Apple Inc’s popular iPad.

A new social networking worm in the vein of Koobface is currently doing the rounds.

David Nichols studies the way psychedelic drugs act in the brains of rats. But he’s haunted by how humans hijack his work to make street drugs, sometimes causing overdose deaths.

Company suspends three senior executives in what is potentially one of the biggest commercial espionage cases in recent years.