Worst security disasters of 2010

31.12.2010

No wonder Bruce Schneier wants .

At least that was less severe that the embarrassment piled on porn-loving customers of Sky, a UK TV network, after a database hack.

Most bizarre scam of the year? Probably the wealthy musician in New York . Not far behind that was the . People are afraid of calendar symmetries it seems, or perhaps just mathematically phobic.

The biggest security 'injustice averted of the year' was in order to get him sacked (he was caught), with the biggest 'don't mess with gamers' story hosting Call of Duty games. Headshot..!

Malware is normally the big security story of the year and there was one biggie, the Zeus attacks on US, UK and European online banking customers. There were a spate of stories throughput the year, .