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Children around the world unsuspectingly now hold weapons of mass destruction in their hands! These children may become the next generation victims of a new…
About the same time the American FBI revealed that it has gone out and tried to count the number of PCs that have been taken over by criminals for use in…
Internet companies, retailers and the government must do far more to protect people from the dangers of the "lawless Wild West" of cyberspace, an influential…
A South Australian farmer was lured to Africa with promises of marriage and gold then held hostage for 12 days. Des Gregor, 56, from Hoyleton about 120km north…
Security researchers in Germany continued to pull down exploit code from their sites last week, scrambling to comply with a German law that makes illegal the…
W32.Deletemusic: This is the greatest idea I’ve read about in a long time. As named, It’s a computer virus that destroys music files on infected computers.…
Ben Charnota is an unlikely computer nerd: an outdoorsy guy who didn't know a lick about technology until college. As a boy in Wisconsin he kept his ear glued…
Six men have been arrested in the Netherlands over an alleged internet scam that cost an Australian $US1.5 million ($1.76 million), police said Wednesday. The…
Each new report of stolen personal data by a hacker leaves computer users everywhere feeling more vulnerable. But there are a variety of measures a computer…
If you receive an email that seems to be from your bank, don't reply to it - give your bank a call instead. :: Check your bank statements for suspicious…
Cybercrime may consist of mostly ones and zeros, but it's costing Americans plenty of dollars and cents. According to a study by Consumer Reports, damage to…
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) recently announced the availability of My Internet Protect, a security knowledge mining, alerting and notification service for identified…
Terrorists could exploit a newly discovered software flaw to hijack massive computer systems used to control critical infrastructure. A security researcher at…
The survey of 2,000 households with Internet access shows that you now have a one in four chance of becoming a cyber-victim. Cybercrooks can do more than steal…
I came here thinking it would be easy to tell the white hats from the black hats among computer hackers. But at the Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences,…
U.S. consumers lost more than $7 billion over the last two years to malicious software and e-mail phishing schemes unleashed by cybercrooks, according to a…
Storm wave is biggest email attack on the Internet in years Be careful of those emails with breaking news or e-greeting card attachments which are becoming…
US federal agents are reaching out to computer hackers for help fighting crime and terrorism as a tug-of-war between privacy and public safety continues on the…
Every bit of Internet security advice you've ever read warns you to clamp down on incoming access to the computers on your home or office network. Turn on a…
Hackers have taken the computer virus to a new level with an elaborate "pump-and-dump" scheme that manipulates stock prices, experts say. The Storm, a worm…
A common Internet scam has found a new victim, prompting the Richmond RCMP to issue a warning Tuesday. A man approached Richmond RCMP at Vancouver…
raud levels in the UK are at record high, with the internet involved in almost all instances of fraud, according to the latest KPMG Fraud Barometer report. In…
The Kerala IT Mission and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing or CDAC has launched a web portal, the first of its kind in the country, to check cyber…
An investor is due back in court next Sunday, accused of issuing two dud cheques totalling BD1,100,000 to finance a hi-tech communications project in Bahrain.…
That gift card you spotted on the Internet offered at a nice discount look enticing? Buy it and you may be helping a cybercrook complete a slick…
A survey conducted by 192.com Business Services has revealed that over 70 per cent of Internet retailers are failing to report fraud losses or fraud attempts,…
With over half of computers attacked by viruses in the first half of this year, China has become one of the most serious computer virus-stricken regions in the…
The makers of peer-to-peer file sharing software such as Limewire are no strangers to controversy. Hollywood has been battling file-sharing over the Internet…
Fraud is running at record levels, according to a study by business services firm KPMG. The value of frauds in the first half of 2007 totalled £594m, more than…
Internet fraud is a growing threat as more and more consumers go Online to buy everything from flowers to furniture. Internet Bedroom Furniture Leader,…