An Indian-American man, Rakesh Jyoti Saran (47), of Arlington in Texas has been ordered by a US court on December 11, 2009 to 12 years imprisonment and was asked to pay US$ 68 Million as compensation for his involvement in a complex Internet scam that carried a whopping US$ 200 Million by unlawfully selling addictive medicines to cyber customers and drug users.

Researchers at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies of the University of Portsmouth recently conducted a study under NFA (National Fraud Authority) to find that people who become victims of spam mails, fake lotteries, phishing and identity theft, feel so embarrassed that they restrain from telling police about them.

Zscaler Inc., a leader in the market of SaaS (Security-as-a-Service), published its predictions of ten security threats for 2010 during the 3rd week of December 2009.

According to the Network Box e-threat analysis, Vietnam accounted for over 10% of the global spam. In the month of November 2009, malware threat levels remained higher with Vietnam taking the number one place from last month's topper, Brazil.