July 3, 2008 — Malicious spam emails allegedly sent on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud servers are making some commentators critical of the security risks that arise as the potential power of cloud computing opens up to all users, including spammers.
April 4, 2008 — Hackers broke into a Welsh government website to install a malicious JavaScript in an attack that mirrors the vicitimized pages of the Trend Micro website in mid-March, as reported Friday by computer security analyst firm Sophos.
February 27, 2008 — Seventeen suspects were recently arrested in Quebec, Canada for turning thousands of computers into zombie machines and causing an estimated $45 million of damage in other countries.
September 14, 2007 — Security vendors Sophos and McAfee announced on Thursday that two US Department of State Web sites in Russia should be avoided because they could contain malware.
July 30, 2007 — Internet security company Sophos reported last week that the number of Web pages infected with malicious code has spread nearly six-fold since the beginning of this year.
June 4, 2007 — Online security firm Sophos announced on Monday the results of its latest report into malware threats, which reveals that 9,500 infected Web pages were discovered each day during May.
April 20, 2007 — A number of individuals have registered domain names related to the Virginia Tech massacre, including URLs such as vatechshooting.com and vtmurders.com, with some of the domains selling upwards of $US1 million.
January 22, 2007 — Threat management solution provider Sophos announced on Monday that the United States is the worst for malware hosting and spam-relaying according to its annual security threat report.
