Pregnancy groups warn of ‘Preggophiles’ stealing Facebook photos of baby bumps

Three different birthing groups have warned their members about people who use a fake woman’s name to join Facebook groups in order to get hold of baby bump photos.

Chet Chat Podcast 211 – A virus on a *Mac*? Is NOTHING sacred?

Episode 211 of our weekly security podcast – a quarter-hour of news with attitude. Enjoy. Update Tuesday, Firefox’s zero-day, more Android bugginess, a firmware virus for your Mac …and a tax fraudster busted.

FBI catches swatter who said “you can’t catch a hacker”

A Texan teenager has pleaded guilty to one count of threats to kill, after an investigation by the FBI pinpointed him as the source of several hoax bomb threats and “swatting” calls to police in Minnesota, Ohio and Massachusetts.

Adobe and PageFair claim ad blockers will cost business $22 billion in 2015

The rapid growth of people using ad blockers is costly to publishers and advertisers – and the trend looks to only grow worse for website owners as ad blocking comes to mobile devices.