In the face of ongoing criticism about the social network’s security efforts, Facebook has taken the wraps off two new security features – SSL connections and social authentication.

In a supremely ironic situation, especially given the recent furor over the social networking site’s privacy rules, it looks as though Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s fan page on the portal was ‘hacked’ yesterday evening.

Vodafone’s Australian operation is reported to have tracked down the source of a data leak, which caused uproar amongst its users. The source now appears to be one of its cellular dealers.

It’s been a while since the loosely-grouped Anonymous hacking group caused a sensation by organising a series of DDoS attacks against a number of high profile financial sites linked with snubbing WikiLeaks.

Oracle has released a staggering 66 new fixes across 28 product lines in its January 2011 security advisory.

Research in Motion (RIM) will introduce partitioning software on its BlackBerry smartphone devices to allow users to separate personal and corporate data.

Dozens of military, government and education websites have been hacked and are up for sale, according to researchers from Imperva’s Hacker Intelligence Initiative (HII).

Researchers from AppRiver are reporting ‘opinion poll’ emails arriving on the internet, supposedly from fast food outlet McDonald’s, and offering recipients the prospect of a $250 reward.

Guidance Software, the company behind the popular range of EnCase digital forensics software, has extended/ported the forensics application to support the Apple iPad, iPhone 4 and iPod touch.

Google co-founder Larry Page is to take over as chief executive in April from Eric Schmidt, who will then become executive chairman.