Cyber criminals used Twitter on August 30, 2010 to distribute malware through links directing towards what they claimed was an update to the famous micro-blogging client TweetDeck.

As per the news published by ITPRO on August 27, 2010, cyber criminals have made an attempt to trick users into downloading rogue anti-virus software with the help of a fake comparison service.

A sociological study was conducted by a security company G Data Software on women aged 30 years on the security provisions they take for their systems. It was found that most of the women do not pay much attention to secure their computers with anti-virus.

William J. Kilfoil (Chief of Police, Port Washington) has alerted the residents against an ongoing e-mail scam. This fake e-mail is sent by an anonymous person stating that he came to London for a short trip but unluckily he was robbed at the hotel, where he stayed. All his assets including cell phone, cash and credit card were stolen but he still had his passport with him.