Watch the video overview of the threats expected to increase during the next year and security trends to watch for in 2010. This video covers the following emerging security exploits and 2010 security predictions from Websense Security Labs:

Every day, approximately 89.5 billion unsolicited messages (i.e. spam) are sent by computers that have been compromised and are part of a botnet.

Trend Micro released a report titled "The Future of Threats and Threat Technologies", in which they analyzed the current situation and made some predictions for 2010 and beyond.

The House of Lords questioned two security firms today on the technical measures needed to protect nations against cyber-attacks and IT infrastructure failure.

Malware writers have revamped code that uses a popular Twitter command to generate hard-to-predict domain names, a technique that brings stealth to their drive-by exploits.

Last month, the FBI warned that hacker attacks on law firms were increasing. Specifically, the Feds noticed a rise in phishing emails with malicious attachments: just one click and the user’s computer can be exploited by the hacker.

The personal information of former, prospective, and current undergraduate students at Eastern Illinois University may have been stolen when a hacker gained access to the university's Office of Admissions server.

Adobe on Tuesday patched seven vulnerabilities in Flash Player, six of them for critical bugs that hackers could use to hijack Windows, Mac or Linux machines.

SQL injection placed No. 3 on Verizon's list of the 15 most common attacks in its data breach report. Preventing SQL injections can be the difference between data security and a screaming headline. Here are a few short tips on how to help protect your databases and applications.

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The multiplayer leaderboards for Modern Warfare 2 on the PlayStation Network are compromised, showing records that are impossible to achieve.

Hackbloc's HackThisZine's new edition is out (version 8.0) in beautiful full-colour glossy printable pdf or old-school text-only. HackThisZine is a technology zine written by political radicals and anarchist hackers from all across the globe.

Apple has sent a clear message to any developers who try to game its iTunes App Store. Software developer Molinker has been kicked out, along with more than 1,000 of its iPhone applications.

A Romanian hacker has posted a proof-of-concept attack exploiting vulnerabilities on the Pentagon's public Website that were first exposed several months ago and remain unfixed.

Malicious web sites and botnet activity continued to dominate the cyber securiy landscape over the past 12 months, with 10 major botnets now controlling at least five million computers, according to Symantec's MessageLabs Intelligence division.

Online crime could become more direct and aggressive in the coming months, according security experts.

Virus Bulletin (VB) conducted its latest test in November, posting the results this month. The security research company evaluated 43 antimalware products (product submission deadline was October 28) for the 32-bit version of Windows 7 Professional. The basic requirements for a product passing the test is detecting, both on demand and on access, in its default settings, all malware known to be "In the Wild" at the time of the review, and not detecting any false positives when scanning a set of clean files