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Symantec Corp. said Monday it will release in September a beta version of a security software product that hardens a computer's defenses against e-commerce and…
Police in India have arrested an HSBC employee in connection with a scam believed to have taken more than £200,000 from the accounts of UK bank customers. The…
Three computer experts have been arrested over an alleged international plot to spread viruses via e-mail. Police say the viruses run without the knowledge of…
Security within Australian organisations is being threatened by the confusion between the concepts of IT security and information security, researchers Frost &…
High tech companies often talk a good game when it comes to security, but apparently the fact that they are heavily dependent on digital information and…
The confidential account details of thousands of banking customers have been exposed to fraud following a blunder by the Australian High Tech Crime Centre…
Five leading online service providers will jointly build a database of child-pornography images and develop other tools to help network operators and law…
Click fraud can be hazardous to your portfolio – and becomes more so each day. That warning should run as a red alert to investors about to buy shares of any…
Microsoft's Global Phishing Enforcement Initiative has netted its first criminal: 23 year-old Jayson Harris from Davenport, Iowa was sentenced to 21 months in…
A former technology manager was sentenced this week to a year in prison and six months of home confinement for placing a so-called "time bomb" on his…
Jayson Harris, 23, was also ordered to pay $57,000 (£32,000) in damages. Harris had pleaded guilty on two counts of wire fraud and fraud. Harris operated the…
**The FBI is warning web users of phishing attacks targeting users of a popular social networking web site. The scam is designed to steal personal…
The top cyber-crime investigator for the Monroe County Sheriff's Department has himself been arrested for computer tampering. 44 year old Investigator Michael…
The Internet sites of three Maine newspapers were hacked into during the weekend by someone who replaced legitimate Web news pages with replacement pages…
Social networking sites, where millions of people communicate with friends and family, are emerging as the next frontier for Internet pickpockets. These…
The first university course of its sort is to be launched in the UK by the University of Abertay, Dundee. The course will comprise of lessons teaching students…
Protecting oneself from cybercrime requires know-ledge of the computer itself and good judgement. “First and foremost, use common sense,” said Christopher…
Computer crime is costing firms up to £270,000 an hour but many companies fail to tell the police because they do not want adverse publicity, according to a…
Launching an easily deployed, no web application change approach to the problem of protecting risky transactions in online financial services, Business…
The city is struggling to repair its computer systems -- a vital resource for many administrative services -- after suffering two big disasters less than 48…
A flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Excel spreadsheet could allow criminals to remotely control a computer, the company confirmed Monday. Microsoft, the world's…
A new Internet worm capable of stealing bank details and other personal data from users is circulating via Orkut, Google Inc.'s (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile,…
A phishing email claiming that The National Australia Bank (NAB) is bankrupt has caught more than 1,000 of the bank's customers in its net. The email warns the…
Several complaints of Internet fraud in Athens have been reported to the Athens Police Department in recent weeks. According to a news release from the police…
Six years ago, cybercrime such as online financial fraud, computer tampering, Internet child pornography and sexual exploitation of a child barely registered a…
According to Net monitoring body Netcraft, a security flaw in the PayPal site is allowing phishers to exploit victims via a cross-site scripting attack. The…
This week computer experts from the EU Member States have been exchanging their views on how to stop the increasing number of crimes which are carried out in…
A new vulnerability has been found in Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program, just a few days after the company fixed problems with several of its applications…
This week computer experts from the EU Member States have been exchanging their views on how to stop the increasing number of crimes which are carried out in…
Microsoft has long received criticism that Windows is an insecure operating system, and that basic maintenance tasks such as backing up a hard disk are too…