According to TechCrunch, a new phishing scam targeted at the Facebook users sends a message from Facebook 'friend' claiming for creating a new account and asks them to resubmit details using the given link, as reported by m-net on March 28, 2008.

Mozilla recently launched Firefox 2.0.0.13 update to rectify the security vulnerabilities in the software. The new release will patch several critical loopholes in the software that could be misused by hackers to insert malicious code and fake content, as reported by Heise on March 26, 2008.

According to the statement published on April 3, 2008 by ChannelWeb, Microsoft announced that it is planning to launch eight security patches to fix holes in its Internet Explorer (IE) and Windows Operating System (OS). The announcement was made in advance before the scheduled release of Microsoft's monthly "Patch Tuesday" on April 8, 2008.

The Storm Trojan launched a fresh campaign on March 31, 2008 as spam mails crafting messages for April Fools' Day bombarded users' inboxes, reported several security firms.

According to e-mail analysts from the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center, Symantec Corp., F-Secure Corp. and others, e-mails with various subject lines on April Fools' Day were spammed out on March 31, 2008.

According to Rajat Khare, Director, Appin, an IT security consulting company, India's corporate sector is facing losses by 8-10% of its overall revenue due to incidents of phishing and hacking, as reported by Financialexpress on March 30, 2008.

Security experts are warning that a newly developed technology called 'knowledge-based authentication' could work as a convenient tool for hackers to capture users' online accounts.

Proofpoint Inc., a vendor for solutions of loss prevention and e-mail security, announced on April 1, 2008 that the PARC (Proofpoint Attack Response Center) has observed a rise in spam to enterprises by over 50% during first quarter in 2008 along with short term peaks at around 60%.

The number two Web portal of Korea, Daum Communications, has been infringed but the country kept it under covers for eight long months, from July 2007 to February 2008.

According to the news reported on March 31, 2008 by Hackinthebox, the chief officials of Jobs.ie, an online job agency, revealed that on March 27, 2008, CVs of the applicants submitted to their agency were downloaded through a non-Irish Web address.

On March 27, 2008, a marketing executive (36) was arrested by Mumbai crime branch's Cyber Crime Cell (CCC) from Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh, India, for attracting investors through a fake Internet site of the ADAG (Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group).