An e-mail scam has made headways into The Ohio State University's (OSU) Webmail system taking over computers of both faculty and students and filling their mailboxes with junk e-mails, as reported by nbc4i on March 26, 2008.

A researcher working with MarkMonitor has found that three quarters (75%) of dubious phishing sites make surreptitious use of Google's search terms that are shared and traded across underground forums, as per reported by Hackinthebox on March 27, 2008.

A former intern with San Jose City Council, Eric Hernandez, 18, has been obliged to community service for 50 hours after admitting his offence of illegally hacking the city's e-mail system. The Judge of the Superior Court granted the defense's plea by reducing the felony charge to misdemeanor.

Michael Wasa, aged 18, and a senior at JP Taravella High in Coral Springs, is facing accusations of intercepting personal data of a large number of district employees. The hack into addresses and Social Security numbers of 37,000 employees endangers the latter of identity theft, according to documents from court, as reported by Sun-Senitel on March 25, 2008.

Randal T. Ellis, aged 19, and belong to Mulkiteo, Washington, was sentenced to prison for three years as well as ordered to make a payment of $14,765 as restitution fees for illegally breaking into the computer system of the Southern California emergency center, as reported by Seatlepi on March 26, 2008.

According to Security Researcher, Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian from Argentina, flaws in Apple's Safari for Windows browser could be exploited to allow hackers to take control of an affected computer, as reported by Webusers on March 25, 2008.

Microsoft Corp., on March 21, 2008, warned that a critical bug affects any computer with Word operating on Windows 2000, Server 2003 SP1, and Windows XP. The warning comes after several weeks since PandaLabs, an online security company, first reported an exploit on March 3, 2008 and one day after another vendor confirmed the ongoing attacks.

A portion of the Website of Sequoia, provider of e-voting machines for the New Jersey election, got attacked in a hacking attempt during the night of March 20, 2008. However, on realizing the problem, the company took down the site and cleaned it of the intrusive material.

WhiteHat Security, a global provider of security for Websites, on March 24, 2008 released its fourth part of the WhiteHat Website Security Statistics Report that shows that majority of the sites continue to be pitifully vulnerable to hacking attacks.

As the tax deadline in United States draws closer, cyber criminals are waging increasing number of spam attacks with the theme of tax in their messages, warn researchers at Symantec. In the newly documented attacks, the tax period is used as a means to entice computer users into loading malware onto their systems, as reported by Vnunet on March 18, 2008.

A new research conducted by Q Interactive in co-operation with MarketingSherpa, a marketing research company, reveals an effective change in the way spam is defined. According to the study, the usual permission-based description of spam as "unsolicited commercial e-mail" has been replaced for a perception-based description of consumer dissatisfaction.

US-based Darfur peace activists, who are initiating efforts for abandoning the 2008 Olympic Games scheduled to be held in China, said that their computer systems encountered cyber attacks from Chinese sources. UKPress published this on March 21, 2008.

A Seattle man has been punished in the federal court for around more than 4 years in prison and 3 years of supervised release for e-mail fraud using a protected system without permission to further identity theft and fraud, on March 17, 2008.

A number of serious security flaws were found in the Kerberos authentication system at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology following which the system's developers adequately patched them.

According to experts, security holes in the server of MIT Kerberos Key Distribution Center could be remotely exploited to take control of the main database, get hold on sensitive information, and cause a DOS condition.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission, on March 20, 2008, terminated share trading in three small-sized business firms for ten days because it thought that the companies were involved in pump-and-dump spam.