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November 9, 2004 · Internetnews.com
Report: A Misplaced Sense of Security?

Despite feeling safer now than a year ago, 20 percent of businesses in a network security survey of 300 IT staffers in companies with more than $30 million in…

November 9, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Stolen source codes for selling

Anonymous hacker group launched on-line shop selling stolen source codes of the famous software products. Among items for selling are codes of Cisco PIX…

November 8, 2004 · News Today
Cyber laboratory on the anvil

There is a plan to set up a cyber laboratory to aid Cyber Crime Cell attached to the Central Crime Branch of the city police to further enhance investigative…

November 8, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Web's prowling predators

The information age has brought about unparalleled instant connectivity. It has also introduced a scary scenario for the pop cultural narrative: the wide-open…

November 6, 2004 · This Is London
Security breach at Cahoot bank

The website for online bank Cahoot was shut down for around ten hours yesterday after the discovery of a major security breach that meant customers could log…

November 6, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
New kind of the Internet fraud represented by Russians

Russian “spammers” represented new kind of Internet fraud. Thousands Australians received messages proposing participate in two-week trainings on the Internet…

November 5, 2004 · Foreign Policy
Haven for Hackers

South Korea has the highest percentage of broadband Internet users in the world. Yet, the country’s cybersecurity record is one of the world’s worst. Last…

November 5, 2004 · BizReport
FBI Pursuing More Cyber-Crime Cases

**A former technology company executive charged with hiring hackers to attack a competitor's Web site has joined the FBI's most-wanted list, the latest sign of…

November 4, 2004 · NEW SCIENTIST
Zombie networks fuel cybercrime

IN JUNE, the websites of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft disappeared for hours when their servers were swamped with hundreds of thousands of simultaneous webpage…

November 4, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Two Traffic Police officers became heroes of porno-story through the student's fault

Recently, a student of the local University in Mordovia (Russian Federation), distributing porno stories through the Internet, pleaded guilty for calumny. He…

November 4, 2004 · ITNews Australia
Phishers recruiting money mules

Phishers are recruiting money laundering "mules" in the UK with "make-money-at-home" offers tendered via email, said a security firm this week. According to…

November 3, 2004 · Sunday Mail
Parents face porn claim risk, says MP

PARENTS sending family pictures over the Internet could be accused of child pornography under planned new laws, the State Government has been warned.…

November 3, 2004 · PC WORLD
Secret Service Busts Internet Organized Crime Ring

**Feds allege 1.7 million stolen credit card numbers were involved in global scam.** In what it called an "Information Age undercover investigation," the U.S.…

November 3, 2004 · NEWS TARGET Network
United Nations working group to tackle spam, cyber-crime

**Overview** * More than 250 experts wrapped up two days of talks in Geneva November, 1 on the creation of a United Nations working group which could deal with…

November 2, 2004 · ITV.Com
Online paedophile crackdown urged

**Children's charities are launching a joint campaign with the police to call for more resources to tackle internet paedophiles.** They claim that some…

November 2, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Illegal Internet Access – the Most Popular Internet Crime in Russia

For 10 months 2004 Kurganski Branch Joint Stock Company "UralSviazInform” received 21 complaints from Internet users about the fact of queerly quick spending…

November 1, 2004 · Port Macquarie News
$9000 lost in internet scam

A woman lost $9000 in an internet banking scam at Port Macquarie last week. Police told the News the victim received an email last Monday claiming to be her…

October 31, 2004 · NEWS.com.au
Law faces child sex computer challenge

LAWS relating to child pornography will need to be crafted to keep pace with the changing nature of the crime, Police Commissioner Mal Hyde has warned. Mr Hyde…

October 31, 2004 · The Indian Express
Online extortion: Internet crime on the rise

LOS ANGELES, OCTOBER, 29: When Mickey Richardson got an e-mail from gangsters threatening to bring his online sports betting operation to its knees, he paid…

October 31, 2004 · Lancaster Online
CAP leader’s computer seized

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - MacDonald Stacks, the longtime executive director of Community Action Program of Lancaster County, resigned Friday, a day after a state…

October 30, 2004 · North Texas e-News
Attorney General lands 10-year sentence against child predator

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott this week obtained a maximum10-year sentence following a guilty plea entered by child predator Nicholas Andrew Fallat, 33,…

October 29, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Ukraine: Cyber policemen receive government awards

Recently, Minister of the Interior Nikolay Bilokon rewarded cadets of High Schools at the Ministry of Internal Affairs. There were three cadets of Donetsk Law…

October 29, 2004 · COMPUTERWORLD
Secret Service busts online organized crime ring

OCTOBER 28, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - In what it called an "Information Age undercover investigation," the U.S. Secret Service today announced that it has…

October 29, 2004 · EcommerceTimes
ISPs File Next Barrage of Anti-Spam Lawsuits

**Earthlink filed a federal lawsuit in Atlanta, Georgia, accusing 50 "John Does" of violating the federal CAN-SPAM Act and various other state and federal…

October 28, 2004 · Forensic Computer Service
Cyber Crime Analysis-Litigation Support...

We provide a full range of investigative services for individuals and businesses for private and litigation purposes. Our data security experts also provide…

October 28, 2004 · Petoskey News-Review
Police arrest man for internet fraud

Police have arrested an Emmet County man on charges that he defrauded several people out of thousands of dollars under the guise of fraudulent electronic…

October 27, 2004 · BBC News
Child porn threat to betting site

**Online betting site Blue Square has been attacked by criminals threatening to e-mail out child pornography in its name unless it pays 7000 euros (£4,863). **…

October 27, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Law Improvement: The legal base in fighting cyber crime

Problem of cyber crime induced many states to reconsider their own legislation. Nowadays more than 100 countries (including 60% Interpol members) have no laws…

October 26, 2004 · NEWS.scotsman.com
Police Win Award for Internet Gun Tracking System

A British police force has won international recognition after developing a hi-tech system to track the illegal sale of firearms on the internet, it emerged…

October 26, 2004 · CommsWorld
The World Notices the Spyware Threat

The first story I posted online on this site dealing with spyware was in January 2003, when the site was two months old, “Spyware Getting Nasty”, in which I…