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Law enforcement agencies in Ukraine took five people under arrest for involving in an international computer-crime ring that drained off an estimated amount of…
Cyber experts with United Nations have cautioned about a recent trend in online attacks originating from African countries. “It is important to note that the…
MUMBAI: The plethora of online Nigerian frauds, instances of hacking and obscene text messages might be spiralling endlessly, but the city is yet to see a…
An independent organisation set up three years ago to help the victims of online crime will close next month due to lack of funds. Over the years E-Victims has…
Several Apple devices including the iPhone and iPad have two critical security weaknesses for which no patch exists, the German government warned last night.…
Cybercrime costs American companies a median loss of $3.8 million a year, according to a study released Monday by security firm ArcSight and the Ponemon…
The entertainment industry is continuing its mission to clamp down on suspected illegal filesharing websites around the world. Four sites have been closed in…
The study, sponsored by IT security vendor ArcSight, surveyed 45 US companies for a window of four weeks, over the course of nine months. While the first ever…
Cybercriminals are increasingly focussing on money, a new report suggests, and improved organisation means that “toolkits” have been developed to methodically…
According to Tan Wei Ming, senior manager of government relations for Symantec Asia-Pacific and Japan, the underground economy for stolen data "remain…
Cyber crime and scam mails have done a lot of damage to Nigeria’s image. Therefore, the Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC, is partnering with the…
The Government Railway Police (GRP) want to build a cyber crime cell of their own, but are unable to commence the functioning of the cell in the GRP…
That’s according to Microsoft’s latest Security Intelligence Report (SIR) which gleans data collected from approximately 500 million computers worldwide to…
BILOXI, MS (WLOX) - Cyber criminals beware. A growing number of law enforcement agencies in South Mississippi are actively pursing crimes committed through the…
Microsoft Corp. has announced a business coalition, the Internet Fraud Alert group, aimed at combating computer crime. In addition to the software giant,…
The United States is not in a cyber war and cyber war likely will never occur independently of a physical armed conflict, said James Andrew Lewis, director of…
With the coming of 3G, the next wave of cyber attacks will be on the mobile phone, said cyber security expert Vijay Mukhi, at a seminar on the penultimate day…
Security research firm Bkis earlier this month warned of a vicious virus targeting both Skype and Yahoo! Messenger. BKIS said in a blog post the attack…
The war against cyber crimes has been given a boost in Osun State . At the just concluded annual conference of Association of Vice-Chancellors of Nigeria…
Public prosecutors in Mumbai recently received training from the cyber crime investigation cell (CCIC) of the Mumbai police on cyber crime issues. Each of the…
Mumbai Advising parents how to protect their children from pornography will be one of the police’s major objectives during the Cyber Safe Mumbai drive from May…
The recent spike in unsolicited and mysterious telephone calls may be part of a new scheme to use telecommunications distributed denial of service (DDoS)…
Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Stephen Smith, today announced Australia’s intention to accede to the Council of Europe…
The cost of cybercrime to businesses has doubled to more than £10bn over the past two years, research to be released today will reveal. The survey by…
India has risen to the fifth spot in the world's cybercrime ranking for 2009 from the 11th spot in 2008 and now only lags behind the US, China, Brazil and…
Cybercrime is becoming an increasing security threat for a number of firms as methods are becoming 'more sophisticated', it has been claimed. Symantec, a…
A United Nations committee on international crime prevention is split on how to deal with cybercrime. Some countries want the existing European convention to…
The number of new malware samples detected year-on-year has grown from under 500 000 in 2005 to 16 000 000 in 2009. As such, the presence of cybercriminals has…
Yaman Akdeniz from the Bilgi University School of Law said that Turkey's future signature of the Council of Europe's 'Convention on Cybercrime' is not a…
The government of Vietnam has refused to acknowledge the 'groundless' accusations made by Google's Neel Mehta and McAfee Chief Technical Officer George Kurtz.…