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Essex County DA, FBI, Massachusetts State Police and Business Law Authority will spotlight computer crime at the North Shore Technology Council business…
Soon, you may wish that's all you had to worry about online. These days, hackers are going ever more covert in their effort to get their hands on a new goal:…
A Wichita, Kan., man has received five years in federal prison for hacking into 13 Army computers to steal credit card numbers and account information. Matthew…
Ireland will play host to international cyber crime training events for European law enforcement officers at the Garda College in Templemore,…
The Scorpions have arrested the alleged kingpin in an internet banking fraud ring. The 28-year-old suspect was arrested at his Cape Town home. He has been…
The F.B.I. wants internet users to be aware of a new online scam. Investigators say the e-mail is a two part scam that claims to be from director Robert…
A Florida man was charged today in federal court with hacking into two computer systems as part of establishing a "bot" network of compromised computers from…
How did the G8 24/7 High Tech Crime Network come about? In 1997, the G8 had their ministers of justice and interior come together and create a 10-point action…
Amid the autumnal tourist traffic and relaxed café culture of the Cote d'Azur a meeting will take place this week aimed at tackling one of the biggest criminal…
The web pages of Finnish metal group Nightwish were targeted by hackers on Friday, according to a statement posted on the group's website Saturday. A hacker…
Credit-card company Visa International says retailers are falling behind China when it comes to protecting customers' data. Visa's research has revealed only a…
Hours of investigative and evidence processing work have already been recorded and more is likely to come, but an FBI agent last week who specializes in…
Metasploit, which regularly publishes exploit code for its flagship open-source attack testing platform, has released a new module designed to disguise any…
Millions of home computers are being attacked every day in the UK by potentially harmful junk emails, according to price comparison website uSwitch. A total of…
A Wichita man who hacked into 13 U.S. Army computers to steal credit card numbers and account information was sentenced to five years in federal prison, the…
Less than 24 hours after the launch of Internet Explorer 7, security researchers are poking holes in the new browser. Danish security company Secunia reported…
The growth of technology has changed our lives dramatically. Computers were viewed as a luxury or even an extravagance 30 years ago. We relied on television,…
In a twist on phishing, cybercrooks are hijacking instant-messaging accounts to lure people to their information-thieving Web sites. Traditional phishing scams…
Apple is apologizing to consumers after a limited amount of video iPods shipped from the factory, complete with a computer virus. What's more, it was a Windows…
When in the Internet, data are unprotected and totally exposed. To protect users from hackers and to grant their anonymity, SecurStar offers the appropriate…
Dear Reader: I am writing to you with warm wishes from my home in Nigeria. I am the nephew of a very wealthy oilman here in my country. Unfortunately, my…
Google's newly launched Code Search is proving useful for finding website vulnerabilities, but also for locating potty-mouth coder insertions. It seems…
The marketplace for phishing toolkits, which can allow technophobe criminals to quickly and easily set up spoofed versions of banking Web sites, is booming,…
The personal records of thousands of U.K. consumers have turned up on a computer recovered from criminals in the U.S. London's Metropolitan Police Computer…
An investigation has been launched into data recovered from a computer in the US that was found to contain information from hacked computers based in the UK.…
Bank customers, do not reveal your PIN or password and computer logon details to anyone seeking to obtain them by phone or e-mail. And those who receive calls…
The personal information -- including some credit card and bank account numbers -- of about 70,000 people who gave money to Brock University has been stolen…
Scotland Yard today issued an urgent warning that Britain was under a mass attack by hackers. Thousands of homes have been targeted by an organised crime gang…
Criminals covet your identity data like never before. What's more, they've perfected more ways to access your bank accounts, grab your Social Security number…
The Metropolitan Police is setting up an e-crime co-ordination unit to bring together all agencies that deal with internet crime. The unit will be a…