Cyber Crime world writhed in immense disbelief and pain yesterday as cyber squads consolidated their latest move. A well-planned move by governments of US and Egypt, the Operation Phish Fry targeted a large number of scamsters in connection with multinational bank phishig case.

Following confirmations from US Department of Justice, 54 suspects were indicted in US alone in Nevada, California, and North Carolina. The most significant arrest was that of the US ringleader Kenneth Joseph Lucas whose name figured in every one of the indictment’s fifty-one counts. Jonathan Preston Clark and Nichole Michelle Merzi were alleged as other key participants.

The world’s lightest notebook is out in the market and brand Sony is behind it. Standing light 1.6 pounds and half-inch thin, the diminutive Sony Vaio X is a pocket wonder. Boasting an 11.1 inch screen and 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio, Bluetooth, Wi-fi, 3G mobile broadband and a solid-state drive, Vaio X illustrates the blurring lines in the mobile-device category.

Electronic giant Sony has designed it primarily for business users and it would be retailed at $1300 from next month. As opposed to standard battery, the Vaio X comes with a super extended-capacity battery that can keep it aflame for up to 14 hours! Available in gold and black, this lithe laptop beauty is made of brushed aluminium and carbon fibre and has a touch pad “commonly associated with touch-enabled smartphones.”
Sony Senior Vice President Mike Abary was happy to remark,"it's one thing to make a notebook thin," but the inclusion of "industry-leading battery life and wireless WAN" means the X Series is "a game changer." To talk of key competitors that would give Vaio X stiff competition, there is Apple's MacBook Air and the Dell Latitude Z.

As Google had just started gathering feedback from users about Google Wave, an army of scalpers and hackers have jumped to grab the invites. Google Wave makes it easy for users to publish videos, text and photos in real time. Invitations from Google are available to test this latest online tool and we have the black brigade already lapping up the invites.

The hackers are reported as having creating search traps to sell bogus anti-virus softwares and stealing user indenties. WebSense and other top online security agencies have revealed that Google searches on the keyword Google Wave are showing results going to fraud Anti-virus selling sites. One Senior Manager at WebSense, Patrick Runald informed, “"The bad guys are looking for interesting topics or keywords that they can use to manipulate search results," Runald said. "They control a lot of computers using malware and create botnets. They keep track of things that interest people as of right now and have these machines take these keywords like Google Wave and do cross-links."
The moral for web users is not to blindly click on Google results related to Google Wave as there’ s every possibility of being redirected to a rogue website of some hacker. The latest byte is that one such invitation to test Wave was offered on eBay and is reported to have raked in offers up to $27,000!