McAfee has also posted a list of the most popular vulnerabilities used by malevolent URLs in China last year.
As cyberwar becomes an increasing concern in the light of such stories, India says that its army is all tooled up and ready for action.
Conficker's April 1 kicker
April 1 came and went, and Conficker failed to kick off. The date, which was when Conficker's .C variant (aka D, G, and X), and was scheduled to begin contacting command and control servers, passed without incident. Even though the worm didn't suddenly begin downloading and executing malicious payloads, it's still worth keeping an eye on. Look at a world map of infections here.
Scammers capitalized on the Conficker hysteria by poisoning search results to deliver malware.
Several tools have been released to scan for Conficker, including this one, this one, and this one, but some people are more worried about the specialized, smaller botnets that fly under the radar.
Neeris, an existing worm, has been updated to use the same exploit that Conficker uses.
Denial of service
TheRegister.com had its web site hosting and domain name registration site hit by a denial of service attack. Hosting firm GoGrid was also hit by a denial of service attack, as was UltraDNS.
A street car no-one desires
UK residents turned into vigilante privacy warriors after one of Google's street view camera cars tried to make its way down their street. They blocked the car, one of a fleet that takes photos for the firm's street view mapping system.
No wonder people are nervous about these cars. One of them was responsible for nailing an errant husband who was paying his wife's friend an unexpected extra-marital visit when he was supposed to be away on a business trip.
A Canadian MP wants laws updated to make the position clearer on Google's street cars.
Miscellaneous
The internet may have been developed to withstand large-scale disruption, but that hasn't stopped the European Commission from proposing a strategy to protect the infrastructure from just that. On the other side of the pond, legislation introduced this week would give the President carte blanche to shut the internet down in a cyber-emergency.
The Cloud Security Alliance will officially launch at RSA, with a white paper on the subject.
Google's Postini says that spam has finally climbed back to levels experienced before spam hosting firm McColo was taken offline last November.
Controversial UK online advertising firm Phorm faces a backlash after several major internet companies were persuaded to consider boycotting it.