One weapon in the war for information assurance is enforcing legal penalties: “A hacker has pleaded guilty to infecting hundreds of thousands of computers with malware in order to steal money from Paypal accounts. He could spend 60 years in prison and face a US$1.75 million fine.” Of course, given that so much mischief originates in S. Korea and China, (although contracted for by Western hooligans), those of us concerned with the safety of the Internet would have to consider financing a) legislation, b) enforcement and possible c) incarceration costs for this method to actually work.

The term ‘trusted news source’ takes on another meaning: Visitors to IndiaTimes.com, a major English-language Indian news site, risk infecting their computers with a deluge of malware, according to Mary Landesman, senior security researcher at ScanSafe.
“It’s an entire cocktail of downloader Trojans and dropper Trojans,” Landesman said Friday, putting the number of malicious files involved at 434. This includes scripts, binaries, cookies, and images.

Perhaps from the Stasi memorial files: If everybody is spying, is there any privacy to violate? “Think your wife may be cheating on you? Wondering who your boss might be talking to? “Learn the truth. Spy today.”
So reads an ad for “Bluetooth Spy Pro-Edition,” one of nearly 200 mobile phone spyware products currently listed for sale on eBay.
The software, which costs as little as $3.99, can be used to view photographs, messages, and files on the phone, listen into phone conversations, and even make calls from the phone being spied upon.”