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May 22, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russian Internet will be protected from computer crimes

May 20, 2004, Vladimir Putin, the President of the Russian Federation, signed a decree "On measures to assure information security of the Russian Federation in…

May 21, 2004 · In The National Interest
What the United States Should Do in Ukraine

No political event in Europe this year is more important than Ukraine’s presidential elections next October. They amount to two clear-cut choices between…

May 21, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
A man who sold chid porn nabbed

A 20-year-old admitted downloading a stash of child pornography on to his computer before peddling it to other internet users. Nathan Weedall, of Hungerford…

May 20, 2004 · The Dartmouth Online
The USA at risk of cyberterrorism

Cyberterrorism expert Andy Cutts of Dartmouth's Institute for Security Technology Studies addressed the Dickey Center's War and Peace discussion panel Friday,…

May 20, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
The Fourth Annual Conference "Information Technologies and Security"

***June 22-26, 2004 the Fourth International Conference "Information Technologies and Security" will take place in Partenit (Partenit, Crimea, Ukraine).*** The…

May 20, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russia: Citybank clients scammed

Yesterday CityBank announced about its non-participation in mass distribution of letters through e-mail requesting to specify data on plastic cards. Client…

May 19, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Ukraine declares a war on piracy

ZAPORIZHZHYA (CCRC) - As the new Criminal Code of Ukraine became valid in 2001, law enforcement actively joined the fight against computer piracy. According to…

May 18, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Online job fraud

Online job sites like Monster.com, CareerBuilder and HotJobs have given employers a better way to find workers, but it turns out that crime rings are targeting…

May 18, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer crimes to block business activity

Crimes related to an unauthorized access to information systems communicated through the Internet or related to a break of physical exchange of information are…

May 17, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Ukraine fighting "pirates"

The US continue to demand from Ukraine to strengthen fight against production of pirated compact discs. Though intellectual property rights are still being…

May 15, 2004 · MSNBC News
Ukrainian Hacker Story

The piracy prevention department at software maker Autodesk Inc. spends a lot of time on auction Web sites, looking for illegal sales of its products. One day…

May 15, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
We train students and experts...

Ukrainian magazine "Power, People, Law" interviewed the [***CCRC director Dr. Vladimir Golubev***](http://www.crime-research.org/). **What is the background…

May 14, 2004 · Yahoo!News
Online Co. Shuts Down Site With Beheading

*According to Associated Press, The al-Qaida-linked Web site that first posted a video of American civilian Nicholas Berg's beheading was shut down Thursday by…

May 14, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russian hackers nabbed in Spain

May 13, Spanish police arrested three Russians in Barcelona on suspicion of forming a transnational criminal group. This group was involved in withdrawing more…

May 14, 2004 · Opinion Editorials
Resist Using Nick Berg as a Prop

They didn't just kill him. They posed him, filmed him, decapitated him and uploaded the footage knowing we'd all see it within twenty-four hours. They sawed…

May 14, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
7 years for doubtful photo business on the Net

E-library of 100 000 child porn photos was seized from the 55-year-old man, including images where he had sex with sleeping 10-year-old daughter. 55-year-old…

May 13, 2004 · eTaiwanNews.com
Al-Qaida terror chief beheads American civilian on videotape

*As eTaiwanNews.com informs, a group of men stand over a bound man, who identified himself as Nick Berg, a U. S contrsctor whose body was found in Baghdad on…

May 13, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Ukraine: new bill to regulate unauthorized access to information

ZAPORIZHZHYA (CCRC) - Ukrainian Parliament accepted a law on fines for unauthorized access to computer information related to restricted or being owned by the…

May 12, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Convention on Cybercrime wins support in Ukraine

Science and Education Committee of Ukraine considered a people's deputies' legislative initiative on an amendment to the Criminal and the Criminal Procedural…

May 11, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
E-Legal: Fighting Internet Crime

***According to most experts, today Internet Crimes poses greater cyber security threat than 5 years ago. In spite of law enforcement and special services…

May 10, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Who hacks? Who cracks?

All computer criminals can be divided into the following separate groups by purposes and spheres of their activities: 1. Hackers are users of computer systems…

May 8, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russia: Computer crimes statistics

ZAPOROZHYE (CCRC) - Increase in crimes in the sphere of computer information is a more quick process than computerization in Russia. Criminals are not afraid…

May 7, 2004 · BBC News
Experts divided on Sasser future

**According to BBC News, global computer experts are divided on whether the Sasser worm will now fade away, or become yet more of a threat.** Some believe the…

May 7, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Who are these cyber criminals?

Studies conducted, in particular, in Australia, Canada, the US, Germany helped to divide computer criminals into three main categories by age: - 11-15 years…

May 6, 2004 · TheMoscowTimes.com
Sasser Computer Worm on the Loose

According to TheMoscowTimes, the Sasser worm slipped into tens of thousands of computers around the world over the holiday weekend, slowing down Internet…

May 6, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
How to avoid Internet fraud

Now Internet fraud amounts hundreds of intricate and dangerous cases, new appropriate laws, methods and techniques are actively developed. But it is difficult…

May 5, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
What is hacking?

Hacking is unauthorized use of computer and network resources. (The term "hacker" originally meant a very gifted programmer. In recent years though, with…

May 4, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Fighting Child Pornography

In time of intensive global computerization humanity faced plenty of challenges, which have quickly turned into real threats to economic and social well-being.…

May 4, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer Crime Classification

According to Economic Crime Unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine official statistics for 4 months of 2001 year, 7 crimes, in 2002 – 25, for 6…

May 3, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
FraudWatch warns of the escalation of Internet fraud

As PR Web informs, FraudWatch International warns Internet consumers of the escalation of Lottery scams circulating via email. These scams involve advance fee…