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August 16, 2004 · JS Online
Sex offender provides leads in child porn ring inquiry

Before he went to prison last month for repeatedly sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy as part of a Beaver Dam pornography ring, Robert J. Hornyak sat down…

August 16, 2004 · Daily Southtown
Fake FBI guy arrested by real deal

The leader of a Hickory Hills-based prison-ministry organization was arrested Friday on federal charges he impersonated an FBI employee at a conference for…

August 14, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Accused Internet Predator is a Former Teacher

Police say **Worley Dennis,** a former elementary school teacher, used the internet to arrange a sexual encounter with a young girl. **Sgt. Larry Crider, of…

August 13, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
South Brunswick girl falls prey to online predator

New Brunswick, New Jersey--A 13-year-old girl was sexually assaulted at a motel in South Hackensack by a 27-year-old man whom she befriended over the Internet.…

August 13, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Ukrainian child porn ring

In the centre of Kiev, Ukraine, a porn studio disguised as a child model agency has been acting during several years. Parents whose daughters were victims…

August 12, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Information War

Today information-psychological war as the factor of foreign policy is an investigated phenomenon with the diplomatic, economic and armed struggle, developing…

August 12, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Six Man Indicted On Computer Crime Charges

Los Angeles, a federal grand jury August 4, 2004 indicted a Romanian computer hacker and five Americans on charges that they conspired to steal more than $10…

August 11, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer crime hits taxes

The emergence of electronic money and of the global system for electronic payments has formed a parallel banking system with an entire network of semi-legal…

August 10, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Ukraine violates copyright

International Federation of Fonographic Industry recommends the government of Ukraine to toughen penalties for violating copyrights. It is especially…

August 10, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Volunteer youth coach charged with possession of child pornography

**David C. Kanouse** assistant coach with Waukesha Youth Football was charged Friday with possession of child pornography. Teachers, parents, law enforcement…

August 9, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Teenager facing child pornography charges

**Alexander Charles Whitaker** was being held in the Broward County Jail Friday on $300,000 bond. Police found hundreds of child pornography images stored on…

August 9, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Governmental Measures to Protect Information Processes in Ukraine

The whole situation in the national information field of Ukraine and maintenance of its security turns into a threat to the national security of the country.…

August 7, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russia: Department K against Udmurt hackers

According to Valeri Korznikov, Deputy Chief of the Department K (unit fighting high tech crimes) in Udmurt Republic, hackers expanded heavy activities so that…

August 6, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Cyberterrorism: terrorism of the 21st century

Information on new scaled terrorist attacks being prepared caused the necessity of urgent security measures to be undertaken. According to the CIA, Al Qaeda,…

August 5, 2004 · The Register
FBI publishes computer crime and security stats

Every year for the past nine years, the Computer Security Institute and the FBI undertake a computer crime and security survey among companies and institutions…

August 5, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Vostok Media was attacked by hackers

Russia, Vladivostok, August 5, 2:30 am local time, a hacking into the website of Information Agency Vostok Media was committed. The information on the arrest…

August 5, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
How Al Qaeda uses the Internet

A programmer detained in Pakistan told how terrorists used the Internet, CNN.com informed. According to a source in the US government, Muhammad Naeem Noor…

August 4, 2004 · Channelnewsasia.com
Al-Qaeda computer whizz was top terror planner

ISLAMABAD : The Pakistani Al-Qaeda computer expert captured last month was one of the terror network's top planners with a five million dollar bounty on his…

August 4, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Google is hackers' favourite

Google.com, the world's most favourite search engine is one of the easiest tools for hackers, a security expert said last Thursday. Google's ability to cache…

August 3, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Ukraine: Hackers arrested

Officers of the Dniepropetrovsk Department of the Security Service of Ukraine arrested two malefactors who allegedly attempted to steal big money, committed a…

August 3, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Child porn

The question of what constitutes child pornography is extraordinarily complex. Standards that are applied in each society or country are highly subjective and…

August 2, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Al Qaeda prepares a new attack on NY

The United States government on Monday warned of terrorist attacks aimed at specific targets in New York City, Washington and Newark, which could include World…

August 2, 2004 · The Nation
Internet Fraud

*Promises of riches are parting the greedy and naive from their cash* Waiting in the e-mail inboxes of Internet users around the world are devious and…

August 2, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Ukraine: losses from viruses surge

According to the Ukrainian Antivirus Center, losses from virus attacks added up to 45m EURO for the first six months of 2004. As compared to the previous year,…

August 2, 2004 · HindustanTimes.com
Al-Qaeda engineer held in Pak was source for US terror threat

An Al-Qaeda computer engineer captured in Pakistan in mid-July was the source for the most recent terror threat in the United States, the New York Times…

August 2, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Hacker Philosopher

Richard Thieme, author of the new book [Islands in the Clickstream: Reflections on Life in a Virtual…

July 31, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
German banks experience a sudden upsurge of computer crime

German banking sphere experiences a sudden upsurge of computer crime. According to the Federal Union of German Banks, customers that use online operations more…

July 30, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russian computer crime statistics

Russia -- Department "K" (a department on fighting high tech crimes) revealed 4,295 crimes in the sphere of high technologies for the first 6 months of 2004,…

July 30, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
An Indiana teenager runs away with adult from Nevada she met on the Internet

This story is must reading for parents and includes a description of good detective work and use of the Amber Alert. Extended Entry This story is must reading…

July 29, 2004 · ITNews Australia
Internet Attack Targets DoubleClick

***The DoubleClick outage was caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, in which hackers use the firepower of thousands of hijacked computers to flood…