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November 25, 2004 · Scotsman.com
Child Porn: Special Needs Teacher Spared Jail

A special needs teacher was today spared jail despite admitting downloading more than 2,500 indecent images of children. Ralph Bell, 38, of Bankhall Road,…

November 24, 2004 · mi2g Intelligence Unit
Growth of radicalism within Open Source - SCO under attack again

The main SCO Group web site ([sco.com](http://www.sco.com/)) has been intermittently accessible on Tuesday and Wednesday, having been down on Monday,…

November 24, 2004 · Scotsman.com
Former Police Chief Faces Jail over Child Porn

A former British Transport Police chief superintendent today admitted a string of child pornography charges after a police raid uncovered 657 images on his…

November 23, 2004 · PC Authority
Better hackers behind attack boom: Verisign

Security events in the third quarter jumped 150 percent over the same period last year, fuelled by more sophisticated hackers writing better code who are more…

November 22, 2004 · KlasTV.com
Identity Theft Scams Persist: Shred Your Data

Nearly 10 million people in the United States were victims of some type of identity theft last year. It costs businesses and consumers just more than $47…

November 22, 2004 · Philly.Com
Priest gets 30-month term in kiddie porn

The Rev. Matthew J. Kornacki had multiple apologies to make before he was sentenced to federal prison for possessing kiddie porn images. Kornacki, 57, a…

November 21, 2004 · sundaymail
Child porn scandal: net bursts

Only one in seven of the 700 Scots accused of buying internet child porn in a massive police investigation have been convicted. The vast majority of the…

November 20, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Richard Clarke on Cyberterrorism and Iraq

Richard Clarke, former counter terrorism advisor to the US National Security Council, has revealed that before invading Iraq, the U.S. government used the…

November 20, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Plastic Card Fraud: Increase in Russia

Companies, banks, other businesses try to hide the facts of data theft, cyber fraud, because they fear to lose investors’ and partners’ confidence. That’s why…

November 20, 2004 · ZDNet UK
Microsoft's answer to phishing: Two IDs

Banks are looking to bring down the number of phishing attacks by adopting two-factor authentication, which would require people to produce two forms of…

November 19, 2004 · Kanzas City Star
U.S. attorney charges 15 Kansans in child pornography cases

The U.S. attorney in Kansas on Thursday announced indictments against 15 Kansas residents, including five in the Kansas City area, for receiving or…

November 19, 2004 · Kanzas City infoZine
Security Incidents and Cyber-Crime

The number of security incidents recorded in the third quarter of the year has risen sharply according to a study by VeriSign which also claims that the…

November 18, 2004 · FBI
ID Theft/Credit Card Protections

The Federal Bureau of Investigation wants everyone shopping this holiday season to enjoy purchasing gifts for loved ones and friends without the fear of…

November 18, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Trojan steals banking information

Computer Security Experts warns about new Trojan Banker-AJ. With the help of this program fraudsters steal money from the accounts. The most alarmed clients of…

November 17, 2004 · Onlypunjab.com
SBC Unresponsive to, Identity Theft, Internet Fraud, Complaints

After receiving multiple email containing what was clearly internet fraud with links leading to web pages cleverly disguised as eBay with the sole purpose of…

November 17, 2004 · Port Macquarie News
Internet fraud scares off seniors

Elderly people have so much to gain from the internet, but they are being scared off by internet fraud and fake emails, according to a man who has introduced…

November 16, 2004 · The Age
Crusty security no protection at all

Internal fraud is the most underestimated security threat to Australian organisations, warns a former federal computer crime investigator. The duties of those…

November 16, 2004 · The Cornell Daily Sun
Panel Discusses Threat of Cyberterrorism at Workshop

he first reaction of the United States government to the Sept. 11 attacks was to order the immediate grounding of all airplanes. In the hours that followed,…

November 16, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russia - the second child porn manufacturer

Experts of National Children's Homes (UK) issued report on the origin of child porn in the Internet. Russia took the second place after U.S. in producing child…

November 15, 2004 · Business Standart
Prove your identity for surfing in cyber cafes

Internet surfers in over 50,000 cyber cafes across Karnataka now need to show an identity proof before they browse the web. The state government with an aim to…

November 14, 2004 · deepikaglobal.com
Identity check made compulsory in Karnataka cyber cafes

Bangalore, November 14 :Internet surfers in over 50,000 cyber cafes across Karnataka now need to show an identity proof before they browse the Web. The State…

November 14, 2004 · ISRAEL21c
Israel spearheads drive to open the information society to all

What divides the world's 'haves' from the 'have-nots'? It used to be access to food, health care and education, but nowadays it's just as likely to be access…

November 13, 2004 · Kerala Next
Terrorism ; Cyber crime tools could serve terrorists: FBI

Terrorism News, MIAMI: The hacking and identity theft tools now earning big money for mainly eastern European organized crime could be used by terrorists to…

November 12, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
''Break In'': the hackers' weapon

Hackers become more dangerous when joining into groups. They can shut down not only separate web-sites, but the whole Internet zones. The organized criminal…

November 12, 2004 · ZDNet UK
FBI: Hidden threat inside cybercrime

**The hacking and identity theft tools now earning big money for mainly Eastern European organized crime could be used by terrorists to attack the United…

November 11, 2004 · CANOE
War on cybercrime against kids widens

OTTAWA -- Ontario's fight against Internet crimes that target children got a boost of up to $5 million yesterday. Monte Kwinter, Ontario minister of community…

November 11, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Digital Media – the most vulnerable for illegal information access

70-80% of the information about a certain object can be received legally by use open sources: magazines, newspapers and the Internet. However, other methods of…

November 10, 2004 · This Is London
New online fraud scare

Fresh fears about the security of online banks were raised today after a major new loophole was exposed. About one million Morgan Stanley credit card holders…

November 10, 2004 · KnoxNews
Child-porn images found on priest's computer

More than 5,000 pornographic images and about 150 child pornography movies were found on a church-owned laptop computer used by the Rev. Stephen Fernandes,…

November 10, 2004 · Sun-Sentinel.Com
Online companies facing huge losses in battling Web extortion

To an old-time bookie like Mickey Richardson, $500 in protection money was chump change. So when he got an e-mail from gangsters threatening to bring his…