According to a report by the New Jersey (US) situated SHU (Seton Hall University), an e-mail has come into the inboxes of the university's members showing the caption "MailBox Quota Exceeded," whose source is an id that's not of the University, while the message carries a web-link leading onto an external site. IT News and Announcement division of shu.edu published this on March 18, 2011.

Researchers at Trend Micro the IT security company have been putting great effort to find a certain criminal, the person behind Tequila botnet whom they've named Mr. L. State the researchers, the person profusely exploited harmless Web-surfers, mainly belonging to Mexico and Chile. Moreover, as per latest discoveries, Mr. L continues with his traditional tactics related to data theft and money usurping. Trendmicro.com reported this in news on March 21, 2011.

Panda Security, a provider of cloud-based security software, when declaring its first "K-12 (Kindergarten-12 Education IT Security Report" said that illegitimate user access or malware outbreaks struck 63% of schools a minimum of two times every year.

Security researchers at Iconics, Datac and Control Microsystems, 7-Technologies and Siemens discovered 34 security flaws within software which were capable of letting remote hackers run malicious code, gain admission into sensitive data, or interrupt the functioning of physical equipments via attacking SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) software deployed on computer servers. Msn published this in news on March 23, 2011.