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Christopher Maxwell will have to pay more than $252,000 in restitution to a hospital and the Department of Defense for his role in attacking thousands of…
Ok, first... In Los Angeles, Jeanson Ancheta was sentenced to a 57 month in jail for operating a network of infected machines which included military server…
For someone accused of perpetrating the biggest military hack of all time against U.S. computer systems, Gary McKinnon is surprisingly modest. The self-taught…
Concluding the first prosecution of its kind in the United States, a well-known member of the "botmaster underground" was sentenced Tuesday to nearly five…
Small firms have been warned to be on their guard against increasing levels of cybercrime by West Midlands IT firm Adecs. The Coventry company has been going…
Six computer users in the Mid-south have been sued by the Recording Industry Association of America for illegally downloading music. It's a Federal Crime that…
Symantec is planning to revamp the Phish Report Network, an online project aimed at cutting down on "phishing" identity theft attacks. On Tuesday, the security…
Calls are coming into the metro area trying to scam you out of your money. A Hinds county woman says she was contacted by someone pretending to be from the…
According to Internet security company, Panda Software, zombie computers are now the biggest source of spam on the Internet. A zombie is a computer infected…
To the United States, he is a seriously dangerous man who put the nation's security at risk by committing "the biggest military computer hack of all time." But…
CHI 2006's last presentation on security contained a mixture of good and bad news. Rob Campbell (who was at pains to say that he was only presenting the work…
A study conducted by Harvard and Berkley shows that people, even those that should know better, were still likely to be fooled by phishing sites. According to…
A scam sent through WebMail last week, targeting the UA campus, has prompted police and university officials to warn about giving away personal information…
The chip maker, which launched its vPro brand for business desktops April 24, aims to increase PC security by stepping up the vPro machines' abilities to…
Cloudmark, Inc., the proven leader in messaging security solutions for service providers, enterprises and consumers, has identified and begun blocking phishing…
The Airline Risk Management Survey, a new piece of research commissioned by Airline Business and leading airline insurance broker Aon, is the first detailed…
When Antioch resident Keith Kelpsas received a congratulations letter in the mail, he thought his ship had finally come in. He believed he had won a $100,000…
The cost of computer crime in the UK has doubled in the past two years and fraudsters are becoming more sophisticated, IT security experts have warned.…
At the beginning of this month we ran a warning from the Mid-South Better Business Bureau that Huntingdon area residents were being targeted for identity…
The cost of computer crimes in the UK has doubled in the past two years. Tony Neate of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) said "with some 11,000 people…
Renee Boland remembers visiting the profiles of her daughter’s friends and discovering questionable photographs. “I was shocked when I saw the pictures of…
Five individuals were charged with criminal copyright infringement in Charlotte, North Carolina, as part of an ongoing federal crackdown against international…
A new type of ransomware, which freezes an infected PC and then demands affected users send the hacker money via Western Union, has emerged, according to…
A British computer hacker facing extradition for breaking into United States military computers said today that computer administrators fail to take easy steps…
A Central Texas businessman says someone stole $15,000 from his bank account and a University of Texas hacker may be to blame. Personal information from about…
Kgabo Sepuru says he's passionate about freedom, and it shows. He's been a software developer for nearly 15 years and is one of the driving forces behind free…
Online fraudsters and data thieves are more frequently using bot networks to get home and business PCs to do their bidding, with some estimates of the number…
If you are a large e-mail sender constantly subjected to phishing scams, all parts of your organization must be on the same page to combat the problem, Eric…
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) will be staffed 24 hours a day by about 100 police, computer technicians and child welfare…
The rapid rise of the global economy is reshaping the way New Jersey companies do business, creating new opportunities and challenges. This weekly column…