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Police in Greater Manchester yesterday arrested 45 people suspected of downloading pornographic images of children from the internet. The arrests followed…
An aggrieved teenager, sacked from his £120-per-week job, has taken revenge on his bosses by bombarding them with five million emails, effectively crippling…
Stephen Singular is a highly regarded journalist and freelance writer. Apart from his book Presumed Guilty -- An Investigation into the JonBenet Ramsey Case,…
According to the Information Technologies Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, 6% of total computer crimes were registered in 2001, 36%…
'You have flunked'. The SMS was enough to unnerve not only Ram, an engineering student, but also his entire family. But the panic was soon found to be…
Rising, one of China's leading anti-virus software firms, recently discovered that Chinese hackers had opened a new website offering a made-to-order virus…
A man charged with hacking into search system company AltaVista's computer networks about two years ago is now employed by Microsoft Corp, reportedly working…
Development of scientific progress related to introduction of modern information technologies led to appearance of new kinds of crimes as illegal infringement…
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning announced the arrest of Jeffery D. Meyers, a 36 year old foster parent. Meyers has been charged on ten counts including…
More than 99% of all websites linked in spam messages are based in China, South Korea, the US, Russia and Brazil, a new survey of Commtouch, a company engaged…
South Korean National Police Department will create a new unit of computer anti-terror by the end of this year. Police management came to the necessity of such…
Today spam is about 70% of all emails in the world. These data are given by American company MessageLab involved in developing of program-filters. The volume…
According to Washington ProFile, every fifth under age user of the Internet runs the risk of online sexual abuse. These statistics are given in the report of…
The threats facing Britain's Internet-enabled companies and consumers are so great that new laws are needed to fight the problem, and fix the mistakes made by…
Robert Martin Brown, a 50 year old Newark man, was arrested by the San Jose police on suspicion of sending sexually graphic material over the Internet to an…
July 28, 2004 officers of Russian cyber police (Department K of the Ministry of Internal Affairs) nipped in the bud activities of a big organized criminal…
Spanish police investigates a global scale lottery scam. It was organized by several criminal groups based most likely in Madrid, Spain. Scammers created…
The publication of a review of Britain's cybercrime laws by an influential group of MPs and peers this week has been welcomed by the IT industry. Broad…
An influential group of MPs has put forward suggested reforms to the UK cyber laws, to take account of 21st Century computer crime. The All-Party Internet…
**Source [Wall Street Journal](http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB108851802560750205,00.html) (subscription) and Associated Press ** WASHINGTON -- The Supreme…
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The FBI opened a new lab Tuesday dedicated to detecting computer-related crimes and training federal, state and local police to catch…
Dmitri Androsov, a student of Chelyabinsk, Russia, became the most famous Russian hacker of the last week due to 16 thousand of indecent phrases that he sent…
A hacker of Leninogorsk, Russia managed to illegally withdraw 15,000 of American dollars from accounts of foreigners and co-citizens. All victims visited a…
The authors of the last malicious action to spread computer viruses exploiting earlier unknown flaw in the Internet browser are people of Archangelsk, Russia.…
According to AME Info, investment in fighting cyber-crime remains critically low, and a general ignorance of its consequences is leaving businesses across the…
*Spam, fraud, viruses assault Internet's 'killer' application...* USA Today For years, consumers and corporations raved about e-mail's potential. Now they're…
An International legal organization "Reporters without borders" announced a report on obstacles to the free flow of information online -- "Internet Under…
A bill that outlaws spy software that secretly monitors Web activities is advancing towards a vote by the US House of Representatives A congressional panel…
US police officers arrested an AOL employee and charged him with conspiracy in a plot to flood AOL subscribers with spam. Federal prosecutors say that Jason…
If you are a parent of a child between the ages of 10-17 it is likely that your child is receiving unsolicited pornographic images. These are typically sent by…