Five 2010 stories that nobody predicted

Usually around this time of year, pundits guess what we'll be seeing in the year ahead. On the computer security front, we're hearing that 2011 will be the year of mobile malware, that criminals will take to the cloud, and that social network security is destined to become a bigger and bigger problem.But if the past is any guide, nobody will see the top 2011 security stories coming. A look at the top news stories of 2010 shows that the incidents that really captured the public's attention were the ones that nobody predicted.

1) Google was hacked, perhaps by China. 2) A worm targets critical industrial systems in Iran. 3) Russia busted hackers, but 4) the hackers got off with a slap on the wrist. 5) Anonymous gets taken seriously.