The popular social networking site Facebook has been in the news a lot lately. You find an e-mail in your queue mentioning '' FBI vs. Facebook.'' You open it up and your personal information is exposed to criminals.

In a windowless underground computer lab in California, young men are busy cooking up viruses, spam and other plagues of the computer age. The companies that make their living fighting viruses aren't happy about what's going on in Ledin's classroom.

Orange County has temporarily taken down its online database for researching real estate documents after the system was exposed to a computer virus last week.

Two security researchers have developed a new technique that essentially bypasses all of the memory protection safeguards in the Windows Vista operating system, an advance that many in the security community say will have far-reaching implications not only for Microsoft, but also on how the entire technology industry thinks about attacks.