Mozilla has ceased a Firefox extension from its add-on repository for last one month after the revelation that it stole user's login details. A legitimate extension also added to the blacklist owing to a vulnerability that helped in the execution of malicious code remotely.

Beth Phillips, the US attorney for the Western District of Missouri, a New Jersey man pleaded guilty on July 13, 2010 in the federal court for his involvement in a worldwide mail spamming case connected with two Missouri brothers, as per the reports by MISSOURIAN on July 14, 2010.

The Star USA Federal Credit Union has asked its members to be careful of a phishing scam presently circulating on Web. The scam claims to have come from the Credit Union. The Star USA Federal Credit Union (FCU) consists of Buffalo, Charleston, St. Albans, Huntington, Beckley and Teays valley as its branches located in the USA.

The Trend Micro security experts have released a warning about the growing black hat search optimization (BHSEO) campaigns, which take advantage of the fake YouTube pages and Flash Player updates to make the users install malware on their systems.