Like many people, I'm worried about identity fraud. Not paranoid, just generally curious what the chances are that I could be victimized by things like mail theft.

In a new report, McAfee has identified what popular search keywords are most likely to lead to malware. The answers may surprise you, and give you pause as you search for your favorite song lyrics on Google.

Phishers were having a field day with Facebook and Twitter on Thursday.

In what's just the latest Facebook phishing scam, hackers on Thursday broke into accounts and sent e-mails to friends urging them to log on to fake Facebook sites, according to new reports and anecdotes from members.

Be careful who you give your mobile phone number out to.

Women are more affected by identity fraud then men are, according to a new survey that also found that it takes women longer to restore their identities but they also tend to change their behavior afterward.

At least one Facebook account that was hijacked in phishing attacks last week was used to send out spam directing people to a malware site, according to the social-networking company.

Cybercriminals have moved on from search engine optimization techniques and are now creating fake search sites designed solely to direct Web surfers to pages hosting malware, Panda Security warned on Wednesday.

Phishers and spammers have caught swine flu fever and are exploiting fears around the outbreak to try to sell pharmaceutical products or steal information.