According to the security company eSoft, spammers promoting pharmaceuticals websites are shifting their attention away from Google to Microsoft's blogging platform Windows Live Spaces.

According to the online security firm Trend Micro, Microsoft's suggestion to computer users that they keep out certain folders and files from the scanning process of antivirus programs could actually prove dangerous.

As per the news published on WAPT on December 22, 2009, Attorney General 'Jim Hood' (Mississippi, US) has asked people to be careful of a new phishing scam posing as an e-mail from Hotmail.

Kaspersky Lab, an Internet security company, has found that cyber criminals gangs, which create and distribute botnets, are following a new trend. Rather than just attack single computers, they are currently exploiting vulnerabilities and slackness in datacenters.