According to a Thursday-released report by cybersecurity firm McAfee, China-based hackers conducted a “coordinated, covert and targeted” campaign of cyber-espionage against some of the leading Western energy firms, downloading sensitive data from their corporate networks.

During his Friday speech at the 47th Munich Security Conference, the UK Foreign Secretary William Hague admitted that the UK government computers were infected the Zeus information-stealing Trojan in December 2010.

A number of attempts were made to hack the computer networks of Nasdaq Stock Market during last year. Federal investigators are still trying to identify the persons responsible for this offence and they are still not sure about their purpose behind doing this.

In a high-profile breach on the Facebook site, the fan page of Mark Zuckerberg – the founder of the popular social networking site – was hacked on Tuesday. Zuckerberg’s fan page breach came close on the heels of the Sunday hack French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s wall, with a hacker posting a message that the president will not run for re-election.

A recently-released Deutsche Bank Equity Research report has revealed that the company's two-month trial of the Apple iPhone - using Good Technology's secure email app - was an "overwhelming positive" experience, despite a few minor hiccups.

According to 2010 Annual Security Report by Cisco, the year 2010 witnessed a dramatic fall in the levels of spam, despite the fact that the increasingly sophisticated social-engineering scams targeted a number of Internet users.

According to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), co-ordinated hi-tech attacks on critical computer systems have the potential to rake a perfect storm with "catastrophic" global implications.

The trial that Sony brought against the 21-year-old hacker George "Geohot" Hotz - who allegedly published the root key necessary for running unapproved code on the PlayStation 3 (PS3) - was slowed down on Friday account of questions pertaining to jurisdiction.

A watchdog has criticized the deceptive nature of some paid-for promotions by celebrities and bloggers and has begun a crackdown on Twitter.

According to security firm NetWitness, the Rustock botnet – the network of infected computers sending spam emails – restarted its activity on January 10, after a lull of several weeks which had witnessed a dramatic decline in global spam levels.