A Facebook phishing attack is on the loose this weekend — the third widespread attack on the site in the past three weeks. The attack attempts to steal your Facebook login credentials, install malware on your computer, and even get your home address

Aza Raskin, the creative lead for Firefox, has just posted about a new type of potential phishing attack , dubbed “tabnabbing.” Raskin has a proof-of-concept and an explanation for how this type of attack could work.

For someone who has been famously wary of the web — to the point where he called Twitter a “tool of terror” — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is becoming quite the social media maven. That’s right, in addition to (surprisingly) getting hip to Twitter , Chavez now has his very own blog

Today, the Federal Trade Commission has permanently shut down 3FN, an Belize-based Internet service provider (ISP) notorious for hosting botnets, child pornography, phishing attacks and various other scams and malware. The ISP has been ordered to pay back $1.08 million which it earned by cooperating and conspiring criminals

Silicon Valley startup Anybots sees robots in the future of your workplace. It’s debuting a two-wheeled mobile robot named “QB” that is equipped with a camera and interactive touch display in an effort to one-up the concept of static teleconferencing

New research from Kaspersky Lab shows that the number of phishing attacks on social networks has increased in the first quarter of 2010, especially at Facebook , the fourth most popular online target.

Twitter users are reporting a new attempt to extract their usernames and passwords — a Direct Message attack that asks “You’re on here?” with a link. Others report DMs linking to a site called “mhansenhome” with the message “’someone posted on their blog about you”. The advice is straightforward: if you get such a message on Twitter, DO NOT click the link or enter your login details on the landing page

A couple of days ago we wrote about a new Twitter phishing attack , which spreads via messages such as “This you????”, followed by a link to a fake Twitter login page. Need proof that the attack is very serious?

The folks at Engadget have managed to dig up a full changelog of the upcoming Palm Pre and Pixi webOS update, version 1.4, and it’s definitely an interesting one.

Yesterday we wrote about a new phishing attack on Twitter , which lured unsuspecting users into giving away their Twitter credentials.