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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…
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…