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January 20, 2011 · Infosecurity-magazine.com
Cybercrime as a business is taking off

A major new report from Panda Security, authored by technical director Luis Corrons and his team, claims that cybercrime as a business is taking off in the…

January 10, 2011 · Scpr.org
Regional forensics computer crime lab opens in Orange County

Law enforcement agencies throughout Southern California now have a new tool for fighting crime: a new regional computer forensics crime lab in Orange. Inside,…

January 5, 2011 · UPI.com
Computer crime rising in U.S.

PRINCETON, N.J., Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Increasingly, Americans are being victimized by computer crimes, Gallup's 2010 crime survey finds. Eleven percent of U.S.…

January 5, 2011 · Computer Crime Research Center
Fake White House holiday e-mail is cyber attack

WASHINGTON (AP) — It looked like an innocent e-mail Christmas card from the White House. But the holiday greeting that surfaced just before Christmas was a…

December 29, 2010 · Zdnet.co.uk
Apple and smartphones top 2011 cybercrime targets

Security firm McAfee expects malicious activity in 2011 to target smartphones, URL shorteners, geolocation services like Foursquare, and Apple products across…

December 24, 2010 · Lasvegassun.com
Stopping cybercrime

Nearly 100 law enforcement officers last week got a firsthand look at how easily an identity thief can pick an electronic pocket. As they sat in a UNLV…

December 20, 2010 · Theregister.co.uk
Euro cops mull crowd-sourced cybercrime data

Crowd-sourcing cybercrime reports could help the fight against online crime, according to a senior European Union official. Rob Wainwright, director of…

December 17, 2010 · Computer Crime Research Center
UK First in the Battle Against Cyber Crime

The international 'Cybercrime Security Forum' will launch in London in May 2011, in response to growing threats to British Business and recent government…

December 15, 2010 · Computer Crime Research Center
Call to set up cyber crime complaint departments

The two-day international conference of Interpol concluded on Monday in Dubai, with participants calling for an establishment of departments to receive public…

December 14, 2010 · BreakingNews.ie
Warning over cybercrime scam

Consumers were today warned of a scam where cyber criminals call consumers, claiming to be from Microsoft or other legitimate technology companies to tell them…

December 9, 2010 · ABC.net.au
The Business of Cybercrime

Globalisation offers many benefits to consumers and businesses. Unfortunately, it also offers plenty of opportunities for organised crime. Rather than going it…

December 7, 2010 · The Vancouver Sun
Cyberthreats to the retail industry

Retail businesses are an ideal target for cyber criminals plotting everything from credit and debit card fraud to identity theft. In fact, what has been…

December 6, 2010 · Compassnewspaper.com
West Africa cybercrime summit targets Nigerian scam

Microsoft and government agencies are hosting the first-ever cybercrime summit in West Africa this week to tackle what are best known as Nigerian scams. Known…

November 26, 2010 · ITNews Australia
Cybercrime response a win for self-regulation

The Federal Government has broadly accepted all 34 recommendations of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications’ report on Cybercrime.…

November 25, 2010 · The Province
Cybercrime permeates Internet

The Internet is no longer the friendly meeting place it once was -- the dangers that lurk within its precincts are intensifying. "The Internet is becoming…

November 24, 2010 · tech2.com
Nasscom And CBI To Team Up And Fight Cyber Crime

With the Indian Government and IT industry facing the wrath of Cyber Crime on an almost daily basis, The CBI had decided to join hands with Nasscom to contain…

November 23, 2010 · First Coast News
Baker County Child Porn Arrest

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Police have arrested a man in Baker County on child pornography-related charges, Attorney General Bill McCollum announced today. Randall…

November 23, 2010 · Infosecurity-us.com
India top law enforcement agency to set up cybercrime center

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is teaming up with the country’s National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) to establish a…

November 19, 2010 · Theengineer.co.uk
Anti-cybercrime software mimics DNA matching process

A Scottish university spin-out has attracted £170,000 of funding to commercialise an anti-cybercrime software based on the same algorithms for DNA sequence…

November 15, 2010 · Dp-news.com
Syria falls prey to banking cyber crime

Syrians have been warned that the banking cybercrime malware Zeus Trojan is a threat to online users in Syria. Since the first version of Zeus Trojan, the…

November 11, 2010 · Companies.mybroadband.co.za
Cybercrime strikes more than two-thirds of Internet users

The next time you surf the Internet, consider this: You might be just one click away from becoming the next cybercrime victim. A study released from security…

November 5, 2010 · Softpedia.com
Cybercrime-Fighting in the eForensics Team

Swinburne University offers the first postgraduate course in eForensics, as a response to the necessity of having professionals with the skills necessary to…

November 4, 2010 · Btob.co.nz
Cyber crime threat for unprotected mobile devices

New Zealanders have taken charge of protecting their identity on social networking sites, but are leaving themselves vulnerable by not securing their mobile…

November 3, 2010 · Catholicsentinel.org
Feds investigate Wisconsin parish cybercrime

Federal law enforcement officials are investigating how criminals stole $121,000 electronically from a parish in the Milwaukee Archdiocese. St. John Vianney…

November 2, 2010 · Examiner.com
Government declares a war on cybercrime

Nothing better than a government issued war. The American government has now declared a "war on cybercrime," in an effort to combat rising economic damage from…

November 1, 2010 · Deccanchronicle.com
Reputation tech can beat e-crime

Over three-quarters of Indian internet users have fallen victim to cybercrime, according to the Norton Cybercrime Report: The Human Impact. Unfortunately, even…

October 29, 2010 · Ft.com
MTS hacks into cybercrime for app skills

Russia’s MTS mobile phone company is seeking to create the country’s first market for mobile phone applications with a little help from an unorthodox supplier:…

October 28, 2010 · Rnw.nl
Netherlands popular with cybercriminals

A computer crime network in the Netherlands was dismantled on Monday, and the main suspect arrested in Armenia less than a day later. A Dutch expert has hailed…

October 27, 2010 · Abcnews.go.com
FBI: Crime Ring Stole $70 Million Using Computer Virus

An Eastern European cybercrime ring stole $70 million from US banks, the FBI announced today. In additions to the dozens of individuals charged in the U.S. and…

October 26, 2010 · Computerworld.com.au
Commonwealth Bank served as training ground for global phishing attacks

When international organised crime groups launched the first wide-scale phishing attacks in 2003, their targets weren’t the United States or the United Kingdom…