According to from Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education, Cyber Threat Analysis Center, ESET North America, black hat SEO manipulators know all too well that mean people will search for news, and they also know how to make their malicious sites show up early in the search results. Cyber criminals also use a slew of and phishing techniques to lure people into malware traps.

"Always stick with well known sites for your news information," advised Abrams. "You can go to sites you haven't heard of before, as long as they are coming recommended by friends and you know that your friend actually did recommend them. That means a simple email, IM or post doesn't cut it& you don't know if your friend's account was compromised. You need to have a dialog with your friend." CSO Magazine.

And for those in finance who are watching social-networking trends, with the idea of including them in the corporate plan, there's even some insight about . According to Twitter, Sunday night the site had its highest sustained rate of tweets ever. From 10:45 p.m. to 2:20 a.m. Eastern time there were an average of 3,000 tweets per second, with this "microblogging site" peaking at 5,106 tweets per second and at 11:45 p.m., when President Obama finished his remarks, there were 5,008 tweets per second.

To put those numbers in perspective, during a 20-minute period while this year's Super Bowl was being played, traffic rose above 3,000 tweets per second, peaking at 4,064.