The 10 most commonly used passwords on the Web have been revealed as part of an analysis of tens of millions of Internet accounts.

Imperva, a data security firm, said it had analyzed around 32 million passwords that had been exposed in a recent hack of the RockYou Web site.

In December last year, a hacker breached the site's company database and gained access to the unencrypted usernames and passwords of all its 32 million users. After studying the security breach, Imperva has come up with a list of the most commonly used passwords.

Posted by Kyle Reiners at 12:00

Windows 7 adds a number of new security features, but social engineering attacks mean that you can’t let your guard down.

Experts agree that Windows 7 has enhanced security to ward off attacks on vulnerabilities in old software. But what if a money-minded online scammer can persuade you to download malware onto your PC?

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in Adware, Spyware and Trojans at 09:41

As always, hackers are busy trying to get you to download their latest virus and hopefully make some money from it somehow. This time they are targeting people that are using search engines to look up Apple’s iPad. When you type keywords like “Apple Tablet” and “Apple iPad rumor” into search engines, you will get spam results and the scary part is that these regular looking sites will install spyware and viruses unto your computer.

Posted by Kyle Reiners at 16:27

Today, one security firm reported that there were about 5.5 million pages infected with malware in the last three months of 2009. Some of those pages were commonly visited sites: "In those three months, sites for Fox Sports, technology blog Gizmodo, and the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan, were exploited to deliver malware to unsuspecting visitors."

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in Adware, Spyware and Trojans at 06:46