Last month someone obtained certificates from Comodo allowing them to “impersonate” major web sites. This breach of security may lead to changes in the way certificates are handled by browser software.

On Friday, Gmail Motion was seen as a prank. However. It seems that some of the motions used in the “demo” actually work. Who’d a thunk?

Hackers have obtained millions of e-mail addresses for customers of several banks, Walgreens, Marriott Rewards, and others. It is expected the addresses will be used for targeted phishing attacks in the coming months.

In an effort to shut down illegal file-sharing, the US Departments of Justice and Immigration and Customs Enforcement seized a number of domains. While those domains have been shut down, the sites are back in business on “new” domains.

The Transformer runs Android 3.0, offers 9.5-hour battery life, can be “docked” to a full keyboard, and has a 1280 x 800 touchscreen making it a blend of netbook and tablet.

Some sites really get into the spirit of the day. This article provides a list of some of the more interesting pranks being offered today.

There are a lot of phone running the Symbian OS right now. But with Nokia switching to Windows Phone 7, will the users “upgrade” to Microsoft or another operating system?

Google knows a lot about you. Now they want to add a face to all that data. There is discussion of adding a facial-recognition app for mobile devices. Google is denying the report.

There was a moment of panic recently when a mysterious folder on the desktop of new Samsung laptops was noticed. It seems the folder contains files for Microsoft’s Live Application multi-language support.

Ten billion accounts, more than enough for everyone on the planet, have been created. Almost half of them are still active.