Police in Estonia (North Europe) warn that spam mails, wherein their senders claim they've been hired to kill the recipients, while demanding money to hand over audio tapes that supposedly would reveal those behind the assassination scheme, are currently circulating. Err.ee reported this on March 4, 2011.

After being in prison for over 4-years, Robert Soloway is once again free. The man, referred to as 'Spam King' because he led a spammers' gang, which dispatched a total of 10 trillion spam messages during 2003-07, is currently striving to revive his daily living at Seattle (USA). Betanews reported this on March 3, 2011.

A massive Distributed Denial-of-Service assault struck the well-known blogging site WordPress.com causing disruption in its linkages with several blogs it hitherto hosted. EWeek reported this on March 4, 2011. It was 3rd March 2011, when the assault started immediately prior to 11AM Eastern Time and then continued over the next 2-hrs.

The recent piece of malware found by the security firm Symantec could be a view of the next evolution in malware ridden software. As per the report, the recent software could conceal them in real legal security code, as reported by SecurityProNews on March 03, 2011.