The e-mail addresses and passwords for over 4,000 Comcast customers found their way on to document sharing site Scribd.com for over two months.

Twitter users have been subjected to attack from a phishing gang operating out of China looking to harvest usernames and passwords, according to reports.

Sick of junk mailers, scammers and phishers clogging up your inbox with rubbish? A new scheme from two net giants aims to allow legitimate mail through and confine the rubbish to where it should be - for a cost.