Every year most of the security vendors’ forecasts predict dramatic spikes in volumes of spam, phishing, botnet activity, and malware. And unfortunately, every year these predictions come true. While we’d prefer not to be sowing…

Source:Keeping safe online: Big threats for 2010 (The New Zealand Herald)

China has run a highly publicized campaign against what officials said were banned smutty and lewd pictures overwhelming the country’s Internet and threatening the emotional health of children.

Source:China to offer more money to report online smut (CIOL)

The Chinese government is to offer greater cash rewards to people reporting online smut, state media have said.

Source:Bring on the web smut reports – China (Independent Online)

Government rewards surfers who shop online porn merchants China has paid cash rewards to more than 200 people who found online porn and reported it to authorities, as a government crackdown on undesirable web content spreads.

Source:China pays cash to porn hunters (TechWorld)

After years of retrenching to survive the credit crunch, online brokerages are looking for ways to not only lure customers wading back into the stock market but to wrest existing investors from other firms.

Source:As economy heals, online brokerages go after investors (USA Today)