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This week it’s become apparent that Facebook and its switch over to automatically displaying an @facebook.com email address for all users is causing more of a problem than it inevitably would have had “nothing” gone wrong. The folks responsible for making big changes such as the switchover we’ve reported on earlier with Facebook ‘s contact emails are certainly used to being shoved around a bit each time they decide that a big aesthetic or behind-the-scenes change has to be made to the social network. What they’re probably not entirely prepared for is when a bug – such as the one creeping up their leg right now – is revealed. One of the larger bugs to come out of this ordeal is a situation in which the newest email to be added to the Facebook contact list is used for notifications. In this case, that means that anyone who relied on their notifications to see when Facebook needed their attention would have to check their Facebook email – available only on Facebook – to see if they had a...

Malware has increasingly become a problem for Android , with most malicious apps intended to send premium text messages in the background that will rack up a nasty phone bill. Android might also be used to setup botnets and send spam emails, according to Terry Zinck’s blog on MSDN . He discovered that standard spam email messages were being sent from Yahoo! Mail servers on Android devices. Zinck took a closer look at the header information and signatures that were being sent out with the spam. All the messages come from compromised Yahoo! accounts and sent through Yahoo! Mail servers, and all also seem to finish with the “Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android” signature. Zinck postulates that a hacker has developed a botnet that can access Yahoo! Mail accounts on Android devices and send spam messages as a result. Yahoo! does provide the IP address of where the emails came from, with origin countries including Chile, Indonesia, Lebanon, Oman, Philippines, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Uk...