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The arrest of a wholesale VoIP entrepreneur last week for fraud and hacking points to much more than a criminal mind cheating the system – it brings to light…
New research conducted by security company Aladdin's Content Security Response Team has confirmed what many in the security community have suspected - the…
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has issued a consumer warning about scams that convince consumers to provide personal banking details via…
The patches, part of Microsoft’s monthly scheduled patching cycle, address problems in the Windows operating system, the Office productivity suite and Windows…
10-11 July 2006 on the base of the Saratov Center for the case study of the organized criminality and corruption with the support of the embassy OF THE USA in…
A computer hacker has got into the US agency that guards the country's nuclear weapons stockpile and stolen the personal records of at least 1,500 employees…
A hacker stole a file containing the names and Social Security numbers of 1,500 people working for the Energy Department's nuclear weapons agency. But in the…
Almost two thirds (64 per cent) of servers controlling spam traffic are located in Taiwan, according to a survey by email security firm CipherTrust. Such…
When we first reported on zombie PC networks a couple of years ago, the idea seemed kind of novel. Infect the machines with a malicious program, instruct them…
Occasionally a criminal is so, well, clever that you have to admire him even as you wish that he spends the rest of his life in jail. Take Arnold Rothstein,…
Though Microsoft has gone back and forth for years on really putting Windows 98 and Windows ME into their “End of Life” clauses that will prevent them from…
The thrill-seeking teenager is no longer the face of computer hacking. Sophisticated computer experts looking to profit from their technical skills are driving…
Sophos has incorporated several new features in a security software package released Wednesday that allows network administrators to manage security for…
Federal authorities arrested one man in Miami and another in Spokane, Wash., today in connection with what they said was a hacking scheme involving the resale…
The bloke who claimed that he was asked by a US elected official to build a program which would hack into electronic voting machines is standing for election.…
Security teams have discovered a new instant messenger (IM)-based phishing attack aimed at stealing the account information of users of the popular social…
Despite repeated warnings, people still get hooked by "phishing." Now there's a renewed effort to get people to resist the temptation to respond to what looks…
One of the hottest new courses on U.S. college campuses is a direct result of cybercrime. Classes in digital forensics — the collection, examination and…
One of the chief selling points (if a free browser can have a selling point) of Mozilla Corporation's Firefox browser has been its reputation of being more…
The Tokyo-based group is alleged to have stolen from approximately 700 people a total of 100 million yen (approximately $900,000) by drawing victims to a fake…
A new flaw found in Microsoft Corp.'s software could be exploited to cause a denial-of-service attack on certain applications although the bug isn't viewed as…
The hacking of two public school computer systems in the past three weeks is a warning for computer users everywhere, cybercrime investigators said. "Data is a…
The hacking of two public school computer systems in the past three weeks is a warning for computer users everywhere, cybercrime investigators said. "Data is a…
With identity theft much in the news these days, many of us have found ourselves wondering just how safe our personal information is. And we're right to worry.…
Manchester Police will not pursue the hacker who held a UK woman to ransom after moving her computer files into a locked folder. Filenappers used a virus,…
Crime comes crawling in off the web, invading your house without breaking a window or picking a single lock. These are predators that are nearly as invisible…
Bigger budgets and beefed-up staffing would help local law enforcement agencies in the battle against online sex predators. To effectively go undercover and…
Sending alerts on breaches of Internet security will be explored as part of wider steps to combat hackers and cybercrime, the European Commission said on…
(Japan Economic Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)KYOTO, May 30_(Kyodo) _ The Kyoto police on Tuesday arrested a man suspected of belonging to a phishing…
In a new Hollywood drama, Torrentspy.com, a BitTorrent search engine, has accused the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) of hacking its servers. The…