Google today is celebrating Freddie Mercury’s 65th birthday, one of the greatest rock starts of all times and a brilliant songwriter. Google honored Freddie with an amazing music video doodle on its home page.

Although users are annoyed with the recent changes that Facebook has made, cyber criminals are taking advantage of it by creating pages like “Need Old Profile back”, which has already attracted over 59,000 people to “like” it. This is an attempt by cyber criminals to hack your Facebook account, so DO NOT “like” or share the page with your friends.

If you are invited to join the event “Facebook Giving 100000 Apple iPod Free. Must Invite All Friends to Get It”, the best thing to do is to sign out of Facebook, and get back to work. Before that, make sure you report this “event” as scam (or fake) to the Facebook Security team by clicking here.

YouTube in collaboration with The New York Times is marking the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attack by launching a dedicated YouTube Channel, featuring special videos and content from the New York Times, archived news broadcasts from September 2001, and personal stories of those people whose lives were deeply affected by the attacks.

Just three weeks after the launch of the “Bug Bounty Program”, social networking giant Facebook, announced that is has paid out US$40,000 in rewards so far to expert hackers who have successfully identified and reported security loopholes on the site.

Leading frontend and mobile development for Google Translate Josh Estelle , announced in a post that the Google Translate team have developed and come up with a Chrome extension called Google Translate for Google+, which uses the power of Google Translate, to automatically translate any post into more than 50 languages.

The scam titled – “Cameron Diaz Hot and Topless Leaked Video”, which has a message that states – “Cameron Diaz showing her incredible hot Boobies. She portrays a Dominatrix and having Fun with some Dudes and Girls” is a click-jacking scam, and is spamming the entire social network.

Facebook has started rolling out the new “Live Ticker” feature to an increasing number of users, and would eventually be making it available to all users. While the new feature is positioned above the chat box on the right side of the page, many users are finding it annoying and disturbing.

As the Hurricane Irene barrels up the East Coast, users on the Internet should lookout for scam messages and phishing attacks related to the storm news. It is likely that scammers will create phishing attacks and other malicious activity, and publish them across the Internet.

Twitter users are being hit by a new phishing attack where affected users are sending DMs to their friends, which contain links to fake website that looks exactly like the Twitter login page.

According to The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), users registering on websites like Facebook, which collect information from users, are asked to enter their (real) date of birth at the time of registration. This indicates that users (children) below 13 years of age are restricted from creating the account. The same law is now applied to Google Plus and Google Accounts as well. Google is now requiring new users to enter their real birth date while registering on their social networking site Google Plus, or any other services provided by Google.

After the announcement made by HP on ending its smartphone and tablet production, it dropped a bombshell on consumers with the TouchPad selling for just $99. And if you were lucky enough to grab one, then you just got luckier. HP is giving away six premium apps for free, which normally sell for $15.

Inspired by the insanely popular and one of the most addictive games of all time, Angry Birds, a bunch of geeks from a Noida-based company called Geek Mentors Studio, have designed a game called “Angry Anna”, which encourages online users to “Play to support Anna Hazare” in his battle against corruption in India.

Everyone wants to own the newly launched Samsung Galaxy S2, and undoubtedly it is one of the best Android powered smartphone existing in the mobile market. However, scammers on Facebook are creating fake pages, which ask users to complete a few steps in order to get the smartphone for free.

In competition with Instagram and PicPlz, Facebook is planning to roll out its own photo filters for its mobile application sometime soon. Facebook said that they will introduce almost a dozen photo filters, including some that are similar to Instagram like old-style camera lenses and grainy film. Facebook will also try to introduce new styles of filters with the hopes of drawing users away from other photo apps.