Financial planning firm GilmanCiocia has agreed to indemnify its CEO and chief compliance officer for civil penalties levied against each by the SEC. At the same time, the company revealed its form 10-K that it had missed the deadline for paying part of a $450,000 civil penalty ordered as a result of the cases, which involved the fraudulent sale of variable annuities by some of its representatives to senior citizens. That information came as the company improved both its bottom line and revenue for the year ended June 30.

Just so nobody misses the point - there's no evidence that the incidence of spam and malware being generated is improving. "What we have seen is a significant uptick in the area of malware related to the expanded use of social networking sites. Although we are isolating the malware, it blows my mind how significant it has become," says Jim Bourke, principal with Red Bank, N.J.-based WithumSmith+Brown.