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Interesting email from our m8 Korrupt on Gulli over in Germany. He tells p2pnet about phishing activities on Rupert Murdoch's MySpace, which is touted as a…
China is now the most infected country in the world and Asia contains half the world's infected computers, according to security company Prolexic. The figures…
Shirley Tyus of Columbia thought her ship had finally come in. The former nurse’s aide was notified she’d won, incredibly, not one, but a fast succession of…
The FBI says scam artists are putting a new twist on a death threat hoax. In early December, the FBI warned of an e-mail scam where the sender said he'd been…
A new phishing kit has been discovered that is being used by fraudsters to capture victims' personal information online in real-time, Computing reported. The…
London's Metropolitan Police has warned that the U.K.'s local police forces "can no longer cope" with e-crime, and has called for a national unit to be set up…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has frozen the New York Stock Exchange account of the Russian Evgeniy Gashichev and his company Grand Logistic.…
Most sophisticated computer users know about “phishing” — the act of sending an e-mail to a user claiming to be a legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam…
Computer-based crime is costing some firms up to £270,000 an hour but many companies are not doing enough to protect their IT security or make the authorities…
Giving oral evidence to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee currently investigating personal security on the internet, representatives of…
Someone out there wants to use your computer, and they want to use it to bother other computer users. The "Storm Worm" - so named because it commonly bears the…
Debix, the Identity Protection Network, today announced a sponsorship with LooksTooGoodToBeTrue.com, a website funded by the United States Postal Inspection…
Interpol is calling for a global crackdown on cybercrime, with better legislation to support efforts to tackle web criminals. International police are calling…
The crime could be the biggest payout thieves have scored over the Internet. Nordea, a Swedish bank, lost the sum of $1.1 million in increments, spread across…
The criminal case that stemmed from a teacher sending a nude photo to a former female student over the computer that at one time seemed to be over has expanded…
The next time you're at an airport looking for a wireless hot spot, and you see one called "Free Wi-Fi" or a similar name, beware -- you may end up being…
A Nashville woman who was subject of a Dateline NBC story accusing her in an Internet adoption scam, pleaded guilty to identity theft Thursday. Davidson County…
Executives at eBay Inc. are touting security as their top priority in 2007 after an internal survey showed that online scammers may be denting the company‘s…
A member of a business group behind copy-protection software for next-generation D-V-Ds says it is investigating reports that hackers found a way to circumvent…
A team of University of Virginia researchers and students has created a specialized Web-based tool that allows police to easily analyze crimes in their…
Alongside the basic new year's resolutions, vow to keep your personal computer fast and clean this year. That includes keeping your personal information from…
Virus programmers seem to know no limits when it comes to creative ways of making the Internet unsafe. Rootkits, originally programmes designed to help…
With computer viruses and phishing having evolved to organized crime practiced by well-paid hackers who siphon off and then sell your vital information, it's…
Email inboxes are being clogged with what seems like a huge increase in unwanted spam messages. Consumers may wonder where all these messages could be coming…
Data collected by SonicWALL, Inc. from its SMARTLABS network of over one million email users showed increased convergence in the 2006 malware ecosystem, with…
Fraudsters of cyberspace have reared its ugly head, the first of its kind this year, by launching a phishing attack on the website of Ahmedabad-based UTI Bank,…
A Hortonville woman who thought she was helping out a friend she met on the Internet says she's out thousands of dollars. The woman, who didn't want to be…
I will give everyone and the banks in Somerset the word to the wise. If your running a local on-line business or even outside business be careful of scams…
PayPal is beta testing a new tool to help keep user accounts secure. The PayPal Security Key is a small electronic device that account-holders may order from…
The beginning of the new year is the ideal time to make resolutions which should also include your Internet habits. Listed below are a number of suggestions…