Wayne Stenehjem, Attorney General of North Dakota has issued an alert to everyone for being vigilant about an old phishing e-mail campaign, which's supposedly sent from acquaintances looking for assistance. INFORUM published this dated January 11, 2012.

An extremely sophisticated and an enormous-sized 'malnet,' meaning malware network, named Shnakule has been discovered that prompted a few security companies for reconstructing their opinion about cyber-crime activities, reports V3.co.uk dated January 10, 2012.

US-CERT the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team reports that it's presently a target of an enormous phishing campaign. SCMagazine.com.au published this on January 11, 2012.

Two vulnerabilities discovered by the researcher Kaung-chun hung of Taiwan's information and communication security technology center (ICST) which affect the ActiveX components the Siemens' tecnomatix factory link applications. The report also contains bumper overflow and information corruption susceptibilities, reported infosec ISLAND dated January 5, 2012.