An appeals court in the United States has discarded the murder conviction as well as life sentence pronounced for an individual from South Florida following a virus infection on the PC of one court reporter which caused the official transcript of the trial being deleted, published WAtoday on January 5, 2012.

The SANS ISC (Internet Storm Center), during the final weekend of 2011, estimated that the allegedly known lilupophilupop.com malicious software alternatively the SQL-insertion assault by lilupophilupop.com lately struck a total 1,070,000 URLs. The number is greater than the 80 web-pages the Center counted during early-December 2011, says Mark Hoffman, handler at SANS ISC. Darkreading.com published this on January 5, 2012.

E*Trade the second most extensively used online broker in Australia, and part of ANZ Bank, lately closed a few of its services for 2011 Christmas as also 2012 New Year holidays because of a cyber assault, which occurred from overseas. Smartcompany.com.au reported this on January 12, 2012.

Julien Sobrier, Researcher at Zscaler was apprehensive about a suspicious advertisement announcing a free Flash Video player in Google Reader containing adware/spyware, as reported in news in HELP NET SECURITY on December 4, 2012.