iPhone at risk

Security firms are warning of a vulnerability in Apple's iOS for iPhone, iPad and iPod, says The BBC.

Symantec said it could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of a vulnerable device.

Experts said the threat, at present, only exists on paper, but Apple needs to issue a fix before it becomes a reality.

Six suspected fraudsters have been arrested in the UK and Ireland over their alleged involvement in a bank and credit card phishing scam that affected tens of thousands of victims and resulted in losses of millions of pounds, reveals The Register.

Five men and one woman, aged 25 to 40, were arrested in London and County Meath, Ireland on Tuesday and Wednesday following an investigation led by officers from the Met's Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU).

The five UK suspects, all arrested following raids on addresses in London, remain in custody in central London pending further police inquiries. Each faces possible computer fraud and hacking charges.

Google is halting development on Google Wave, a real-time collaboration tool aiming to combine various forms of online communication, reports CNET.

"Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked," senior VP Urs Holzle said in the blog post. "We don't plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site, at least through the end of the year, and extend the technology for use in other Google projects."

Google debuted Wave in June 2009 to much attention, but there was much debate over what, exactly, the tool would be used for.

For those concerned with privacy, Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave them a few more things to start worrying about, writes News.com.com.

At a conference on Wednesday, Schmidt noted that using artificial intelligence, computers can take 14 pictures of anyone on the Internet and stand a good chance of identifying that person. Similarly, the data collected by location-based services can be used not only to show where someone is at, but to also predict with a lot of accuracy where they might be headed next.

"Pretty interesting," Schmidt said. "Good idea, Bad idea? The technology of course is neutral but society is not fundamentally ready."