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F a deal’s too good to be true then it’s probably a scam. That’s the message Consumer Affairs is sending during March, which is fraud awareness month. The…
The world looks very different from cyberspace. We've all got our own ideas of the places where the rule of law is lopsided - America with its gun crime, China…
In the same way some e-commerce sites serve up customized content based on a user's profile, cybercriminals are increasingly using personalization techniques…
Someone named rgonzales23455 has posted a record for [iPhone](http://www.apple.com/iphone/) on eBay. And that is despite the fact that iPhone is not shipping…
A woman recently surprised a burglar ransacking the garage of her Bermuda Dunes home while her two young children slept. She tried to escape, but he tied her…
The latest FBI report on Internet crime details nine types of on-line crime, with the most common being auction fraud. About 44 percent of complaints involved…
Last year, a substitute teacher named Julie Amero was teaching classes when her computer started displaying X-rated adware. The system Back up your business…
The system of e-commerce has a long way to go before it becomes a reliable means of buying products and services in India, Consumer and Civic Action Group…
A 20-year-old Sycamore man was charged with two felonies last week after police in California reportedly discovered he was extorting an underage girl and…
Li Jun, maker of the notorious computer virus "Xiongmao Shaoxiang", or "Panda burning joss stick", was arrested on Thursday with the approval of Xiantao City…
The Ministry of Internal Affairs has started inspection of look-alike sites - social resources built by fraudsters for making money. These are, first of all,…
The Medford and Central Point police departments have teamed up to combat the surge in high-tech crime plaguing Jackson County. The agencies announced…
A senior Apple technologist charged with developing anti-fraud and data mining tools at the company will speak during a special session at an upcoming internet…
Young people are putting their parents at risk of online fraud and identity theft through their social networking activities, according to a survey conducted…
Hoover will be where law-enforcement officials from across the country come to learn how to use information-age tools to crack cybercrime. Last week, federal,…
Anne Arundel County Circuit Court is taking a second look at how it digitizes court records after a computer virus sidelined the county government network for…
Rochelle Rothman usually spends about $60 a month for phone service. But she discovered she owed more than twice as much when she opened a recent phone bill.…
Corporate IT managers should re-double efforts to guard against targeted attacks, which will increase in scope and subtlety this year, according to security…
Gateway to fraud Gateway Inc.’s former finance chief and its controller manipulated earnings in 2000, a federal jury ruled Thursday. The jury in San Diego…
A computer virus that has been spreading across the country has struck hard at an area outside of Washington, DC. Authorities in Maryland, say a few hundred of…
Kim Tae-mun, a 26-year-old college student, found himself swindled out of 600,000 won (US$633) last December when he tried to buy a camera online. He ordered…
The eBay villagers are whispering that he can creep through eBay's internal databases and suck the lifeblood of customer accounts — log-ins and passwords —…
In the old days, when scam artists wanted to manipulate stocks in a "pump and dump" scheme, they'd use boiler rooms where cold- calling brokers employed…
A Georgia man was arrested in a scam conducted partly over JDate in which a total of some $1 million was taken from at least 10 women. Hillard Jay Quint, also…
The Black Hat federal event in Washington, D.C. last week naturally showcased such speakers as a U.S. Department of Defense crime fighter, but it was…
SHANGHAI, China, March 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SonicWALL, Inc. today announced that it has opened a new research and development (R The center's strategic…
Both the FBI and postal inspectors are warning anyone who uses a credit card or debit card about an increasingly popular scam called “skimming.” The device…
The USA Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center – DC3 in its slang – freely admits it could use a helping hand from the private sector when it comes to…
The time it takes law enforcement to crack computer-related crimes will be significantly reduced now that local officers are being trained in computer…
A former Intel contractor has seen his conviction for hacking into the company's systems expunged, after a battle lasting more than a decade. Randall Schwartz…