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(Reuters) - One of the most common sources of computer intrusions has stopped infecting new machines after security researchers working with Facebook released the names of five suspected ringleaders.

Facebook is providing a new way for US or Canadian members of the leading online social network to summon help for friends who may be thinking of ending their lives.

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Recognizing their code bases contain weaknesses and are prime targets for attackers, software companies such as Facebook are beginning to view the research community as more friend than foe.. Facebook and other companies have turned to the research community for help finding flaws, reports Angela Moscaritolo.

The event was launched on Friday with a gathering in Ypsilanti, Mich., featuring Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt.. The eighth annual National Cybersecurity Awareness Month was launched on Friday with a gathering in Ypsilanti, Mich., featuring Janet Napolitano, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt.

Three weeks after launching its vulnerability bounty program, Facebook has awarded one security researcher more than $7,000 for reporting six different issues.. Just three weeks after launching its new bug bounty program, Facebook has already doled out $40,000 for the private disclosure to researchers.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. law-enforcement agencies are increasingly obtaining warrants to search Facebook, often gaining detailed access to users' accounts without their knowledge.

Police say feuds with colleagues led Philadelphia woman to kill 2, wound 1 at food plant. A Kraft Foods plant worker who had been suspended for feuding with colleagues, then escorted from the building, returned minutes later with a handgun, found her foes in a break room and executed two of them with a single bullet each and critically wounded a third, police said Friday.

Australian police say they worked with Facebook to crack online child porn syndicate. An international child pornography ring that operated on Facebook has been brought down with the social networking site's support, Australian police said Friday.

Australian police warned social networking sites on Friday to be alert to illegal child sex activity, after cracking an alleged paedophile porn ring operating on Facebook.

Australian police warned social networking sites on Friday to be alert to illegal child sex activity, after cracking an alleged paedophile porn ring operating on Facebook.

Facebook on Monday launched a Web page devoted to staying safe on the Internet.

Bangladesh lifted a ban on Facebook on Sunday, a week after it blocked the popular social networking site over caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed and "obnoxious" images of its leaders.

Bangladesh lifted a ban on Facebook on Sunday, a week after it blocked the popular social networking site over caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed and "obnoxious" images of its leaders.

Bangladesh lifted a ban on Facebook on Sunday, a week after it blocked the popular social networking site over caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed and "obnoxious" images of its leaders.

Prison forever? Supreme Court rules on sex offenders, juveniles who didn't kill victims. The Supreme Court took two cracks at one of the law's thorniest questions Monday: When can you lock up a prisoner and throw away the key? Not when it's a teenager who hasn't killed anyone, the justices said. But when it's a "sexually dangerous" inmate, maybe so, even if he has completed his federal prison sentence.

Supreme Court strikes down life in prison without parole for juveniles who didn't kill victims. The Supreme Court has ruled that teenagers may not be locked up for life without chance of parole if they haven't killed anyone.

Facebook rolled out a redesign on Tuesday of a "safety center" that provides information for parents, teenagers, teachers and law enforcement on how to safely use the booming social networking site.

Supreme Court debates whether life in prison without parole is cruel and unusual for juveniles. A seemingly divided Supreme Court wrestled Monday with whether teenagers can be locked away forever for their crimes. The question arose in two cases involving Florida men who are serving life prison terms with no chance of parole for crimes they committed as teenagers. Their lawyers argue that the sentences for people so young are cruel and unusual, in violation of the Constitution, because young people have greater capacity to change.

Supreme Court debates whether life in prison for juveniles is cruel and unusual. The Supreme Court appears sharply divided over whether sentencing a juvenile to life in prison with no chance of parole is cruel and unusual punishment, particularly if the crime is less serious than homicide.