Google's Social Search features - which pulls in content from users' social networking contacts - has official entered the mainstream, albeit in beta form.

Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's director of community development, hit out at Google's Eric Schmidt about his company's privacy policy - and recommended that Firefox users move to Bing.

A sting operation carried out by Sky News showed five out of six computer repair shops overcharging for a simple fault - and attempting to access the customer's bank account.

Notorious BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay is set to launch a virtual private network service next week which will offer completely anonymous data transit.

The EFF has launched an on-line toolkit designed to help protect against government intrusion in private telecommunication systems.

Facebook has reverted its Terms of Use back to an earlier version following public outcry over a clause which gave it perpetual rights over hosted content.

Crackers have successfully made off with a full copy of the user database for job site Monster.com - with all of its users' personal details stored therein.

Security firm Chapin Information Services has published the result of an investigation into the security of password management in popular web browsers - and it makes depressing reading.

A camera previously belonging to the Intelligence Services and containing top secret photographs and documentation regarding MI6 field agents was sold on eBay.