An erstwhile employee of Transportation Security Administration (TSA), proved guilty of installing malware onto a computer utilized for scanning airline passengers, has been punished with a 2-year imprisonment along with an order to hand over $60,000 to TSA as compensation for damages. WIRED THREAT LEVEL published this in news on January 12, 2011.

Security researchers from RSA the security company say they've identified a compilation service of Zeus binaries within the secret world of cyber-crime that assists novice scammers incur low expenses while launching their own activities.

Microsoft, on January 11, 2011, as part of its monthly release of security bulletin under Patch Tuesday that happens on every month's 2nd Tuesday, issued merely 2 patches, repairing an overall 3 security flaws among which just one has been labeled "critical," the highest rating on the software giant's 4-stage scale.

In its monthly report for 2010, security firm, GFI Software claimed that the latest analysis of New Year and Christmas malware attacks seems to reflect that hackers took advantage of the holiday season to conduct a series of themed attacks, as reported by infosecurity on January 11, 2011.