A pic of what appears to be an odd-looking iPhone with volume, mute and front-facing camera on the wrong side, along with a warped-looking screen and rounder edges… faaaake?

China (or is it iChina?) is the king of the cloners, the land where fake electronics can be more popular than the real deal, where intellectual property rights are but figments of western imagination and where not just electronics are faked, but even entire shopfronts.

Rupert Murdoch’s woes continue as his UK newspaper, The Sun, is hacked by Lulzsec with a fake story falsely claiming Rupert Murdoch passed away overnight at the age of 80 through the intake of “palladium”.

Similar to the RogueAV malware on PCs that falsely informs end-users that their computers are infected with all manner of nasties, MacDefender claims to be security software that is instead attempting to extort a payment from you to clear the fake infections and to stop a slew of filthy porn pop-ups polluting the screens of 'infected Mac users.

Non-functioning replicas of the Intel Core i7 processor have been delivered to customers of a well-known online retailer.

Just because itsecure.microsoft.com sounds like an authentic Microsoft subdomain, that doesn't mean it is safe to visit.

Macrumors has published a “concept photo” of an iPhone nano next to a standard iPhone 3G, but it looks like a photoshopped shrinking of the beloved existing model, and thus looks totally faaaaaaaaaake. What do you think?

Around 1 billion people around the globe are estimated to have tuned in to watch the spectacular opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. I wonder how many of them realised that some of those fantastic fireworks they were watching had been created by a computer visual effects team?

Many people consider the setting up of a fake profile on a social networking site as almost the done thing. However, as the UK High Court ruled today, when you do it to exact revenge on someone else then you better be prepared to face the legal consequences...

Security vendor AVG has issued an updated version of its AVG 8 anti-virus software that fixes the fake traffic issue that has caused a huge online backlash amongst web masters the world over...