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India is to finally get a data privacy watchdog to oversee the country's IT and business process outsourcing (BPO) offshore outsourcing industry and to address…
A 47-year-old Westbrook man who lost everything he owned in an Internet scam and then defrauded others is going to prison for 18 months. At Thursday's…
If you were looking for high-paying, part-time job, a classified ad promising $2,700 a month for “only a little of your time” probably sounded too good to be…
Country singer Carrie Underwood's MySpace page has been hacked by a cell-phone ringtone promotion. Over the last 24 hours, fans of the "American Idol" winner…
Loan officer Dennis Torres is still kicking himself for what's happened. He mistakenly gave sensitive information on what he thought was his bank's secured…
Research reveals 74 per cent of IT directors admit lack of trust in their network security Seventy-four per cent of senior executives feel exposed to…
In today's edition of the Wall Street Journal Europe Jim Hendler (a computer science professor at RPI) and I discuss the implications of the recent…
A Chinese man is suing information security giant Symantec for the collapse of his computer following an anti-virus update from the company last month. The…
Turkish and Russian computer hackers who stole money from people’s bank accounts by spreading a virus that reveals users’ internet banking details are being…
Google's desktop search application is vulnerable to an exploit that allows a determined attacker to remotely run most programs installed on a victim's…
Since the Internet was invented, computers all over the world have been in danger of getting a fresh virus able to destroy your operating system. Luckily,…
A top spammer known as the "Spam King" has been arrested after years of investigations and experts say it could result in a short-term dip in the volume of…
Google has bought Internet security startup GreenBorder Technologies, which creates secure connections to protect e-mail and Web users from malicious or…
Hackers can drop malicious code into systems running Mozilla's Firefox when the browser is armed with any of several high-profile add-ons, including Google…
A Chinese lawyer began proceedings on Tuesday to sue Symantec Corporation, the world's largest security software provider, for the collapse of his computer…
An authority on computer hacking says the best way to defend a system is to think like a hacker. Chris Gatford from Pure Hacking has been on the Gold Coast…
Just so you know who the real thieves in this country are, please allow me to share an observation about a story the Morning Sentinel ran on page C7, May 24:…
Even though the total number of identity-theft cases seems to have decreased, several consumers and financial institutions still are not doing enough to…
An independent European Union panel, which advises the European Commission and EU governments on data protection issues, has warned U.S. based Google Inc. that…
The Council of Better Business Bureaus and American Kennel Club are warning consumers about a new scam involving 'free' puppies being promoted on MySpace, in…
Convenience Of those who have signed up to the new way of sorting out their finances, 53 per cent said they bank online because they believe it to be…
The names and Social Security numbers of thousands of students at the University of Colorado Boulder have been exposed by a computer hacker, the university…
Government Information Office (GIO) staffers have been prohibited from bringing work home after an incident in which hackers exposed restricted information, a…
On Wednesday the Committee on Legal Affairs of the Bundestag (the lower chamber of Germany's Federal Parliament) approved without any changes the controversial…
Expert feels that only a tiny proportion of cyber crime incidents are actually reported world over. Individual users are more exposed to computer crime than…
A BLEADON woman is warning people not to be caught out by a lottery scam. Sheridan Barmaki, aged 48, of Shiplate Road, received a letter from La Primitiva…
Russia's coordinated attacks against Estonia's computer systems earlier this month were cited as one of the many reasons why the European Union countries…
Nearly 700 hacker attacks were registered, targeting the polling system of Information Services (IS) during European parliament (MEP) elections in Bulgaria, IS…
A new credit card scam has struck restaurants across the UK, highlighting the importance of maintaining a high level of identity authentication. Fraudsters…
"Check out this animation of Bush!" says a message popping up in your MSN Messenger. If you click on the link that follows to see the president of America…