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March 20, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russia: increase of credit card frauds

Economic Crime Unit officers forecast increase in plastic bank cards frauds. Head deputy of the Economic Crime Unit of the Sverdlovsk region Sergei Suntzov…

March 19, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Cyber terrorism suspects will be detained for 30 days in Russia

The State Duma of the Russian Federation passed a new bill at the second reading. This bill increases the term of detention without charge or trial for…

March 19, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer crimes fade into the background

Mechamisms and ways of computer crimes committing are specific and latent. According to FBI, from 85% to 97% of computer encroachment are not revealed. Other…

March 19, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Internet fraud: little tricks and large losses

Computer related crimes may cause weighty circumstances: irreparable loss of especially high-value information, break of important technical facilities, e.g.…

March 18, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
EBay encounters more Internet frauds

Internet swindlers stole customer information that may make a common e-mail scam even more dangerous says…

March 18, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Australia ranks fifth in hacking

Australia is in the the top source of hacker attacks in the Asia-Pacific region because threats to steal information from computers, including banking and…

March 17, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
The largest bank of Estonia under hacker attack

According to the Russian News Agency "Novosti", the press secretary of Hansapank bank experienced a powerful attack of hackers. Actions of perpetrators were so…

March 17, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Hackers: interview with a "Ghost"

[***Ludmila Goroshko***](http://www.crime-research.org/about.html), an analyst of Computer Crime Research Center, managed to interview a former hacker also…

March 16, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer crime at workplace

Zaporozhye region, Ukraine, police arrested a bank local department's employee who allegedly appropriated $20 thousand and more than 16 thousand UAH (about $3…

March 16, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Hackers voted in their own way

Presidential elections in the Russian Federation approached to the head count. Hundreds of committees process voting papers all over the country. Hackers work…

March 15, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russian hacker under arrest

Russia - According to Press Service of Kaluga Department of FSB (Federal Security Service), a proceeding was caused against student of one of Kaluga…

March 14, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Scams and cybercrime

The St. Petersburg Times informed that Florida has a colorful history with scams, from selling swampland to unsuspecting tourists to boiler room phone schemes.…

March 13, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russia: computer crimes statistics

For the first time computer crimes appeared in Russia in 1991 when $ 125,5 thousand were stolen from USSR Vnesheconombank. All world learnt about Levin and the…

March 12, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer crime and cyber terrorism

[Computer Crime Research Center](http://www.crime-research.org/) published a new book "Computer Crime and Cyber Terrorism". It is a collection of scientific…

March 12, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Hackers and web stores

E-commerce is the cause of the record growth of crimes, VeriSign reports. Turnovers of web stores increase rapidly but computer crimes grow faster. VeriSign…

March 11, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Spam: regular users' perspective

In spite of technical prevention of spam flows and new laws on against spam, situation does not improve. According to different forecasts, by midst of 2004…

March 11, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Hacker versus auditor

Vladivostok, Russia - Officers of Vladivostok Regional Police Office, Department "K" detained a hacker, who attempted to sell information stolen from auditing…

March 10, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer crime: information for consideration

Computer Crime Research Center published an analytic report on criminal activity in the Internet. Statistics shows increasing number of hack attempts and…

March 9, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Worms will be $245 million worth for ISP in the USA

Experts of Sandvine company that is engaged in P2P (point-to-point) networks maintenance consider that expenses of American Internet service providers (ISP) on…

March 9, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
How much do computer viruses cost?

Vladivostok, Russia: One pupil tried to trade computer viruses through the Internet. Officer of Department "K" on fighting crimes in high tech field was his…

March 9, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Internet fraud: volumes are increasing

According to certain data, there are 30 kinds of illegal operations with cards in the Internet. The most spread are payment using non-existing cards, creating…

March 8, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Cyber terrorism: myth or reality?

Some sceptics think that "cyberterrorism" is fiction. They think it is necessary in Ukraine or Russia for an "article in the budget", money that can be…

March 7, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer Crime & Organised Crime

The [**mi2g**](http://www.mi2g.com) informed Thursday that correlation between organised crime, politically and ideologically motivated hacker attacks as well…

March 6, 2004 · Pasadenastarnews.com
Sniffing out computer crime

PASADENA -- Thinking of sneaking a peek at a pornographic Web site from your company's computers? Or sending a trade secret to the competition? Better think…

March 6, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
50% of porn sites come from former USSR

Experts state that porn comes to the Internet mainly from CIS countries (former UUSR countries). It is about 50% of all porn websites. ECPAT International, an…

March 6, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Novarg/MyDooM: total damage increases

Economic losses in January 2004 are estimated to be in the range of $2,3 to $2,9 billion from all attacks of malware and numerous software vulnerabilities,…

March 5, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Internet: hacker war

Expert virus researchers at Sophos have declared that a state of war exists between the creators of the MyDoom, Netsky and Bagle worms, both of which have…

March 5, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Arrested for distributing child porn over the Internet

A 41-year-old El Dorado Hills man was arrested on distribution of child pornography charges after policemen seized video from his home showing he engaged in…

March 4, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Internet is a target for terrorists

International terrorist groups tied with Islamic fundamentalists are preparing unprecedented attack on the Internet. Consequences of this attack can be…

March 4, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Two Russian students arrested for threatening CIA

Students were charged with "Deliberately False Report of an Act of Terrorism" (Article 207 of the Criminal Code of Russia). As reported, night February 26-27…