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A hacker broke into Google Inc.'s main official blog and posted a false message on Saturday, saying that the company had decided to cancel a joint project with…
Home computers can come under attack from hackers more than 50 times a night. Researchers found their PC was targeted every time it was connected to the…
Just two years ago, Port Charlotte resident Troy Bettencourt was stationed within miles of the White House. As part of a multinational computer crimes and…
Two Romanian nationals are facing wire fraud and identity fraud charges for their roles in a $150,000 Internet auction scheme. According to a 10-count…
While most local police departments are dealing with reports of cyber crimes, the vast majority say they lack money and training needed to combat it, according…
Don't have time to verify potential phishing sites for the benefit of others? I don't blame you. But it's worth checking out PhishTank, if for no other reason,…
With cybercrime among the nation's top threats, cyber-sleuthing has become a hot study area at some Oklahoma colleges and universities. Several state schools…
A Belize business woman, Michelle Young, 38, and Guillermo Pech, 28 along with nine foreign nationals, have been indicted on charges of fraud and drug…
Three Russian hackers convicted of running denial of service attacks against UK bookies have each been sentenced to eight years imprisonment and fined $3,700.…
The open source Firefox web browser is critically flawed in the way it handles JavaScript, two hackers said on Saturday afternoon. An attacker could commandeer…
Another chapter has been written in the saga of the alleged security flaw in MacBooks, the one that supposedly allowed for a hacker to take control of a…
Microsoft has filed a federal lawsuit against an alleged hacker who broke through its copy protection technology, charging that the mystery developer somehow…
The majority of adults who use of social networking sites like News Corp.'s (Charts) MySpace and FaceBook engage in dangerous behavior that exposes them to…
Spam is putting a huge dent in the value of e-mail. The widespread and implicit trust in the use of e-mail as a business and personal communications medium is…
Social-networking sites could give hackers a backdoor into corporate IT platforms and databases, putting businesses at risk for malicious cyber attacks as more…
The US State Department said Friday that it joined the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime and that will come into force in the United States on January…
Trinidad and Tobago remains the engine of growth in the Caribbean but its future is threatened by a lack of adequate cybersecurity measures. This was the word…
MessageLabs, a leading provider of integrated messaging and web security services to businesses worldwide, today announced the results of its MessageLabs…
In the past, virus writers seeking fame and attention wrote their malicious programs to spread as quickly and broadly as possible, boasting to colleagues when…
It takes constant vigilance to combat the viruses that persistently lurk in cyber space. While we all know our PCs are vulnerable to data loss, you might be…
Moves by several European countries to tighten laws against computer hacking worry security professionals, who often use the same tools as hackers but for…
A former student who hacked into Virginia Commonwealth University computers and stole personal information from about 2,100 people pleaded guilty yesterday to…
Charges have not been filed against William Hickey, the 44-year-old Mingus Union High School teacher who is alleged to have downloaded pornography onto a…
A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted six men on charges they obtained financial information in an e-mail scam over two years and used the information to…
The weekend arrest of a Brockton man accused of using stolen credit cards to buy furniture was a step in the right direction when it comes to fighting identity…
First ghosts haunted the Liberal leadership race, now it's gremlins. An Internet hacker took over leadership hopeful Ken Dryden's website Tuesday. The…
Home PC’s and financial service firms fear greater threat from hackers, reveals the latest Internet Security Threat Report issued by the security-software…
Computer software wizards from near and far will camp at the Silicon Valley headquarters of internet search titan Yahoo this week for an overnight…
No one would knowingly leave their open wallet by the side of a crowded public pool and then go for a swim, but most people don’t realize that their computers…
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