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Valentine's Day offers Internet con artists a great cover for their illegal craft: Using love as a lure, scammers sweet-talk their victims out of personal information the can use to rob you. Here's what you need to know to avoid falling for a fraud.

During the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, much criticism was leveled at World Health Organization officials, accusing their response of being too heavily influenced by the pharmaceutical industry. But according to a panel of independent experts, that wasn't the case.

Solving technical issues on your computer can be pricey if your warranty has expired, you've been downed by a virus or one of the accessories is on the blink. But on September 28, Hewlett Packard will host HP Expert Day, allowing frustrated computer owners to solve all those annoying glitches and...

Security researchers have identified two vulnerabilities in Apple's iOS that could potentially allow malicious attackers to gain complete control of other people's iPhones, iPads and iPods, according to an advisory by Vupen Security.

Just because the note says "Buy.com" on it doesn't mean you should buy it: Consumers are being warned about order confirmation emails that appear to come from Buy.com, but may actually contain a virus and redirect people to other websites operated by criminals. The Better Business Bureau serving...

One of the most oft-repeated warnings about computer viruses is that if you visit an adult-themed website you're more likely to get a one than shopping online or reading the news. Computer security company Avast! wanted to test this Internet assumption. So the company analyzed infected web sites...

In the beginning, most computer viruses were simply aimed at causing trouble for users and giving the virus creator bragging rights. But increasingly, these individuals and organizations are writing viruses aimed at making them rich. The most recent example is a virus that threatens to publish your...

Despite the use of anti-virus programs, the safety of banking and shopping online continues to be threatened by hackers and malicious software creators who take advantage of the fact that most of us use the same computer to bank online as we do to play on Facebook or let our kids, and their...

It's bad enough that the H1N1 swine flu pandemic has caused such widespread public anxiety, and it's worse that the vaccine has become its own source of concern, whether due to the shortage or spurious fears about its safety. Now, the bottom-feeders known as phishing scammers are exploiting the...

For Genzyme Corp (GENZ), this year seems to have been plagued with one piece of bad news after another. On Wednesday, the biotechnology company announced that it was dropping development of its experimental kidney disease drug after it failed to show significant improvement over the company's...