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112 government websites hacked in three months
Number of internet frauds involving Rs 1 lakh and above have declined over the last three years from 269 cases in 2009 to 125 cases in 2011, IT minister tells the Lok Sabha

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How cybercriminals are infecting networks
82 percent of malicious websites are hosted on compromised hosts and if compromised hosts are the norm, cloud and hosting services can't be trusted, stats new security research from Websense Security Lab

Microsoft seizes servers in Zeus cyberfraud
By recruiting computers into networks called botnets, Zeus logs the online activity of infected machines, providing criminals with credentials to access financial accounts

Improved Security

Deals increase with need for more network security
Traditional security defenses used by large companies leave blind spots that provide "a big doorway for cyber criminals to walk through", according to Websense Security Labs