You may not be familiar with the term ‘rogue software’ but there’s a very good chance that you or someone you know either has experienced it, or will in the near future. Keep reading for a look at a few important pieces of information on rogues that may help to keep you, your friends or your family from falling for this growing malware threat.

In Lavasoft CEO Jason King’s commentary on the cyber attacks that targeted Google and dozens of other high profile targets, he noted that these so-called Aurora attacks were heard about and felt all around the Web, and around the World, making them of interest to us all to see what else develops. In just one week since that report was published, there have been a number of developments and interesting industry commentary on this.

So, for those following this story, here are a few of these updates:

Lavasoft’s CEO, Jason King, recently had the opportunity to write a guest piece on SearchEngineWatch.com, with insight into the cyber attacks against Google and other high profile targets - it’s a good read for those wanting to learn more about Google’s revelation last week, and how it has

Interesting statistics were released this week in an industry report from our fellow security vendor, Panda Security:

Cyber criminals produced more malware in 2009 than they did in almost 20 years. 25 million new strains of malware were created this past year; a combined total of 15 million strains were created throughout the past two decades.

SC Magazine has the full report here.

PC World has posted an encouraging write-up on the battle against one of the world’s biggest botnets – known as Mega-D. According to the article, a researcher at security company FireEye coordinated an international effort to bring down Mega-D, which is said to have infected an estimated 250,000 PCs and accounted for nearly 12 percent of all spam (per MessageLabs stats).