The Glider

AFP - Facebook on Wednesday said a software "bug" let a hacker impersonate the social network's founder Mark Zuckerberg in a comment posted to his public fan page at the website.

AFP - Mozilla and Google on Monday took steps toward giving people more online privacy but each said hurdles remain to creating simple "Do Not Track" buttons for Web browsing software.

AFP - Cyber criminals are selling stolen credit card details for as little as two dollars each and renting computer networks for spam for 15 dollars as part of a vast online black market, according to a report released Thursday.

AFP - Russian computer security provider Kaspersky Lab on Thursday announced that it had sealed a major share deal with global private equity firm General Atlantic.

AFP - Two hackers were charged Tuesday with breaking into the AT&T mobile network and stealing data from 120,000 users of Apple's iPad tablet computer, including several celebrities, US officials said.

AFP - Intel said Tuesday that US anti-trust regulators have cleared its 7.68-billion-dollar acquisition of computer security firm McAfee but the deal is still being examined in Europe.

AFP - After taking down the websites of Visa, Mastercard and others with cyber attacks, supporters of WikiLeaks tried but failed on Thursday to knock online retail giant Amazon.com offline.

AFP - A 23-year-old Russian man charged with operating one of the world's largest spam e-mail generators has been ordered held without bond, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

AP - A Russian man accused of masterminding a vast worldwide spamming network is due to appear in a Wisconsin federal court.

AP - Iran's president accused Israel and the West of being behind a pair of daring bomb attacks that killed one nuclear scientist and wounded another in their cars on the streets of Tehran on Monday. He also admitted for the first time that a computer worm had affected centrifuges in Iran's uranium enrichment program.