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Researchers at UCSD have determined the return on investment for spam generated by the Storm botnet. While the per-message response rate is astonishingly low,…
In Japan, where crime is generally very low, computer crime appears to be booming. The Japanese Ministry of Justice have released figures showing that arrests…
A survey of 70 of the world's biggest internet companies found growing concern over a range of new threats from malicious hackers, many of them rival criminal…
New administration will continue to tap into high-tech tools. If Obama gets his way, all Americans will have broadband Internet access, whether they live in…
The spread of CAPTCHA-breaking tools has resulted in a sudden surge in the use of blogging sites such as Google's Blogspot to host spam adverts, security…
The iPhone is apparently still a big target for would-be malicious hackers. With the iPhone 3G now available around the world, and Apple now the second largest…
Security research firm Sophos on Wednesday discovered attackers have launched their own presidential campaign. Attempting to exploit President-elect Barack…
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari promulgated the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance on Thursday, making cyber-terrorism punishable with death or…
Microsoft's six-year effort to improve computer security is paying dividends, according to a report the company plans to release today, but human errors, such…
The spread of CAPTCHA-breaking tools has resulted in a sudden surge in the use of blogging sites such as Google's Blogspot to host spam adverts, security…
There are new details about a virus that could potentially disable Apple gadgets. A hacker who failed to get a job a Apple has generated a lot of Internet buzz…
The amount of spam containing dangerous attachments designed to infect PCs with malicious viruses increased by eight times between July and September this…
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct 30, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The NO on Prop 8 Web site was hit by a massive cyber invasion called a distributed denial of…
The Senate yesterday referred a Bill for an Act to outlaw perpetration of financial crimes through such electronic devices as mobile phones, internet and the…
Cell-phone spam still trails computer spam, with the typical cell-phone user receiving at most a few spam text messages per year rather than the thousands that…
More than nine per cent of all emails which arrived in companies' inboxes in the third quarter of 2008 were legitimate, according to research. The claim comes…
GLENDALE, Calif., Oct 22, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- PandaLabs, Panda Security's malware analysis and detection laboratory, today issued a security alert…
Authorities said Tuesday they have shut down one of the largest spam operations in the world, a vast network involving countries from New Zealand to China and…
Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN) and Microsoft have partnered to educate the country's youth on cybercrime and to provide opportunities for them to use their…
Government and independent investigators are still trying to figure out who, exactly, hit Georgia's websites during its August war with Russia. Now, one of the…
Madrid, Spain (AHN) - Spain's largest operation against online child pornography yielded a large catch of 121 people. Aside from the arrests, Spanish police…
STUART, FL, -- A second arrest has been made in a child pornography case. Federal authorities have arrested Georgia resident Laura Culver, W/F, 08/26/55.…
French President Nichols Sarkozy was the victim of an internet bank attack, according to government officials. The attacks occurred in September when Sarkozy's…
In a sign that cybercrime can reach even heads of state, French police are scrambling to investigate the hacking of French president Nicolas Sarkozy's personal…
Phone Spam Filter, the best website in the United States for finding telemarketers and phone solicitors, announced today that it has successfully processed…
In a reprise of a summer tactic, hackers are trying to trick people into infecting their PCs with malware by sending them e-mail that poses as bogus…
BERLIN, Conn., Oct 16, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- CapeMax, LLC proposes to solve the global spam problem once and for all by employing a new patent…
Microsoft has released its monthly Windows security update, this time with 11 bulletins fixing 20 problems. It’s the first bulletin to rank problems both for…
Friends of a Negrense doctor were nearly victimized by a hacker who gained access to her email address and sent messages saying she had been mugged in London…
PEOPLE LIKE Pentagon Hacker Gary McKinnon often discover they have Asperger's Syndrome late in life. The UK government is more concerned that he discovered it…