An accurate list of the most prolific fraudulent schemes in the previous year has been recently released. “Responsible” for it is The Better Business Bureau of Chicago and Northern Illinois whose director the regional office in Rockford, Dennis Horton, declared that 2007 put nothing new on the table in what regards scams "but there has been some shifting in the ranking of the scams."

It could happen to anyone, but what makes the difference is the attitude. These kinds of thieves are intelligent people. The TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson knows that now, but only after his bank account had been hacked.

What about the attitude? First Clarkson declared in a newspaper that the data lost by staff at HM Revenue &Customs was futile and, in order to prove it, he published his own bank details.

Part of security software vendor CA's Web site was hacked last week and was redirecting visitors to a malicious Web site hosted in China.

Although the problem now appears to have been corrected, cached versions of some pages in the press section of CA.com show that earlier this week the site had been redirecting visitors to the uc8010.com domain, which has been serving malicious software since late December, according to Marcus Sachs, director of the SANS Internet Storm Center.

According to Romanian security company Bitdefender, Google faces these days a new threat in the form of a Trojan like malware which basically replaces text advertisements on Web pages with ads from a different source, thus taking a good bite from Google’s revenue and most likely also causing problems for Webmasters.

PCWorld has recently issued warnings concerning a new software that wants to make a name for itself in the hackers world. What this new malware trend brings to the table is the use of natural language dialogue systems which gaming technologies are familiar with.

Basically, what the software does is engaging in automated enticing conversations with the purpose of gathering personal data from those who resort to the Internet in the hope of finding their sweetheart.

The prediction that iPhone will have its tremendous popularity turned against it as it become a certain target for hackers in the following year, has spread quite rapidly.

Cybercrime will have a new victim in 2008, IT security company Arbor Networks stated on Tuesday. According to ZDNET.co.uk Arbor anticipated "drive-by attacks" as being a potential threat for this mobile device and explained further on how these attacks work as malware implanted in frequently used information, such as images, which then may lead to treacherous actions when rendered in the iPhone's web browser.

U.S. Federal Trade Commission sanctioned a site advertising itself as the world's biggest sex and swingers community for exposing consumers to unrequested sexually explicit pop-up ads.

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico have been hacked in a security incident which raises concerns about the security of American military laboratories.

The Los Alamos attack is the least known to the public while the Oak Ridge lab attack reveals a bot more details. Fears are that the two attacks are interlinked even though there is not enough information to confirm the success of the attack against Los Alamos labs.

ITN (Independent Television News), a leading news and multimedia content company, has seen the benefits of Absolute Software’s ComputraceOne laptop monitoring and tracking service following two recent thefts. In two unrelated crimes, one laptop was stolen from a staff member’s car and another was stolen from an employee’s home. The police were able to identify and charge two alleged thieves.

John Kenneth Schiefer a.k.a acid and acidstorm plead guilty to fraud charges and admitted to infecting more than 250,000 computers with spyware and adware. He faces $1.75 million in fines and up to 60(!) years in prison.