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A new survey released by Internet security firm Trend Micro today found that smartphone users are more worried about losing their phones or the personal data on them than being alarmed of the threat of Web infections or phishing software that is be increasingly found on them. (Full Report Powerpoint)

When you think you’ve see it all and are sick of it up to your eyebrows… here comes more internet hell. This time the malware utilizes click fraud by hijacking the results displayed when users search for something online. So prepare to make changes to your Internet habits yet again to avoid a terrible fate…

Botnets aren’t just dangerous because they can steal massive amounts of personal data and launch denial-of-service attacks. They can also self-destruct, leaving the owners of affected machines in the dust. The controllers of one such botnet recently hit the kill switch for one reason or another, taking down some 100,000 infected computers with it.

The cyber criminals behind the ongoing blackhat search engine optimization attacks, have re-introduced an old social engineering tactic – the use of fake and malware friendly search engines.

And your web surfing can become truly miserable once you have become malware infested from these cyber thugs…

The findings from a April 2009 Threatscape Report by a prominent network security provider – Fortinet®, painted an alarming increase in malware attacks worldwide.

The report shows the highest monthly malware volumes detected this year – with online gaming and adware threats prominent.

China received the brunt of malware attacks in April, doubling its share from the previous month.

Apple computer users with the false sense of security against virus and malware attacks have a reality check coming – very soon!

The Apple platform is vulnerable to exploits and viruses, but has basically been left alone, not because of ingenious security, but because their operating system (OS), platform’s small numbers compared to the PC users platform has not enticed the malicious virus coders up till now, but that is dramatically changing according to experts. Thank the iPhone’s popularity – a victim of their own success.

Thousands of Web sites have been rigged to deliver a powerful piece of malicious software that many security products may be unprepared to handle.

Now, most recently its the Russian cyber assault on Kyrgyzstan, or as of 1993 – The Kyrgyz Republic, that passed virtually unnoticed in western media preceded by just weeks the Kyrgyzstan parliament’s decision this week to boot the United States from a vital air base at Manas. This has far reaching affect could create strategic chaos in the region for the United States.