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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…
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…