A woman, trying to get out of an abusive relationship, goes online to buy plane tickets for herself and her two small children, and then she sends an e-mail to a friend about her plan to leave. As she works to clandestinely put things in order, she doesn't recognize her husband has installed spyware onto the computer and will soon know everything she's planning to do.

Adobe and Sun have released patches for several critical
vulnerabilities that affect their respective Flash Player and Java
Runtime Environment. Many of these vulnerabilities can be exploited to
execute arbitrary code on victims' computers just by making them access
a malicious URL using any application that invokes Flash Player or JRE.

Some users of the smashing Yoomba email calling service are accusing the system of spamming their email contact lists by sending out email notifications to their most active 50 contacts.

BitDefender Labs released  a warning today about a new threat called Trojan.Spammer.HotLan.A which uses Hotmail and Yahoo accounts to send e-mail spam.

The mystery surrounding the end to fictional British boy wizard Harry Potter's saga deepened today with a computer hacker posting what he said were key plot details -- but publishers warned the details could be fake.