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The recent natural disasters in China and Myanmar have led to scams to steal money intended for donations. Users urged to exercise caution after Children in Need weekend. Watch out for small unauthorised transactions. A Chinese man has been sentenced to two years in jail after hacking a Red Cross web site launched for the victims of China's recent earthquake. Spammers preyed on popular current events in May capitalising on the global economic slowdown, petrol prices and natural disasters. The new year is supposed to signal a fresh start for us all, but web threats will continue to reign in 2008, wreaking havoc just as they did this year Information security experts warned users today to be on the lookout for legitimate-looking websites exploiting Monday's massacre at Virginia Tech. Popular BitTorrent search engine IsoHunt remains off the air after its hosting services were suspended two days ago. Panda Software is putting more than $600,000 in cash and product donations up for grabs as part of a new grant program designed to promote better access to secure technology across the globe. An Oregon grad student said today that he had no intention of scamming people when he registered a number of Hurricane Ernesto-related domain names. A spike in the number of registered Tropical Storm Ernesto-related domain names, as the system churns toward the Florida coast, has some information security experts thinking fraud could be on the way, too. A Miami man has been indicted on charges he sold phishing kits that included software used to develop a phony American Red Cross-run Hurricane Katrina relief website. A national survey of privacy practices found that only 65 of the top 236 doctoral universities and liberal arts colleges in the U.S. have privacy notices linked to their home page, in spite of the fact that almost all of these schools engage in practices that put individuals’ privacy at risk. Two hackers have some more spending money in their pockets after figuring out how to run Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system on an Intel Mac. The trend of hackers and cybercriminals using botnets to conduct large-scale denial-of-service attacks increased at an “alarming rate” during the second half of last year, new research has revealed. Charities and other non-profit organizations are to get protection from hackers and cybercriminals as a security company began offering free digital certificates and vulnerability scanning to websites that raise money for good causes. Security experts today warned instant messaging (IM) network users to beware of a newly intercepted trojan named W32/Banbra.BOK, which is using the rise in holiday season web commerce to secretly steal banking passwords from unwitting surfers. Two Britons were sentenced today for their part in creating a worm that infected thousands of computers and formed a botnet that launched DDoS attacks on networks and websites worldwide. The FBI is investigating several reports of fraudulent sites pretending to be charitable organizations collecting money for victims of Hurricane Katrina.