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A disgruntled hacker with a personal grudge against Symantec, which provides anti-virus software to leading Fortune 500 companies, could be behind a new,…
An agency dedicated to tackling electronic crime in Wales has been launched. The unit will bring together government, police, academics and business in the…
He was duped, defrauded and cheated out of $3,500. The 19-year-old KU student is sitting on a substantially overdrawn bank account, and he says it’s because he…
t looks like an e-mail from your bank, or some other business you know. But it's actually a fake, a carefully crafted e-mail designed to scam you out of your…
Think of a TV programme with a crime scene and there are usually some common components – a body, a bloodstained weapon and a couple of glasses covered in…
The increasing storage requirements of consumers and businesses has become a plague for computer-crime investigators, a former special agent told attendees at…
The European Union will officially launch a crackdown on cross-border scams, including Internet fraud, this week. The scheme, called the Consumer Protection…
Employers’ body the CBI is calling for a national strategy to clarify where responsibility for internet security lies. There are few clear regulations…
They can be found at coffee shops, book stores and hotels. There used to be just a few. Now they are quite literally everywhere. For the technologically savvy,…
Despite the arrests each year in Colorado of hundreds of predators who attempt to meet children on the Internet for sex, few of those arrested in stings do any…
A global financial scam ring attacked more than 65 financial institutions and e-commerce corporations worldwide and stole personal information from these…
For the second time in a week, the Delaware County government Web site was infiltrated by a hacker Saturday, causing visitors to the site to see a map of…
Barbara Brownell received some good news in the mail the other day. "I just won the German lottery," she said with a laugh, noting that she received a letter…
A computer security breach by a hacker who stole TJX Cos. customer data was broader than initially feared, and started 10 months earlier than first thought,…
True or false: If a check ''clears'' within the typical one to five business days but later is discovered to be fake, the bank customer who deposited the check…
Businesses are being urged to effectively recycle confidential material in order to reduce their vulnerability to internet crime. According to information…
Online coupons can be a convenient way to cut costs, but experts warn about potential fraud. NBC 5 reported that crooks sometimes create counterfeit coupons…
A security researcher has discovered two fairly serious flaws in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser and Mozilla's Firefox. Michal Zalewski, who posts to a…
Cyber criminals are stepping up their focus on the Middle East, as more people go online, experts warned this week. The alert follows the busting last week of…
A Princeton University computer science professor who bought several Sequoia electronic voting machines off the Internet claims he found no hardware security…
Hackers are no longer motivated by notoriety – it's now all about the money. Guillaume Lovet, Threat Response Team Leader at security firm Fortinet, identifies…
The online news site USA Voice isn’t going to win any kudos from media critics. Not for its “news” stories and not for its Fox News-style slogan, “USA Voice:…
Internet service provider ihug says customers targeted by a hacker were responsible for backing up their own sites because they were bound by the conditions of…
Police have registered criminal cases against the owners of two computer firms and their four salesmen were also arrested here in Clifton for defying the…
The head of Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency says that because of decades of faulty police work, crime kingpins have a one-in-20 risk of prison. Sir…
Hacking isn't a kid's game anymore. It's big business. Online black markets are flush with stolen credit card data, driver's license numbers, and malware, the…
Focus has once again fallen on the need to combat online fraud as a Bidorbuy seller made off with over R 100 000-00 from buyers who never received their goods.…
China has detained six men in their 20s for writing or profiting from a computer virus dubbed the "joss-stick burning panda" which has infected over a million…
US security company PandaLabs is warning PC users to be on guard against any romantic messages received by email as they may contain malicious code. The…
With the recent amendments being approved by the Cabinet, the Information Technology Act 2000 (The Act) is all set to silence critics with its new Avatar. The…