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May 11, 2006 · securitypronews.com
Hacker botnets attack!!!

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…

May 11, 2006 · blogs.chron.com
Cybercrime pays?

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…

May 10, 2006 · latimes.com
Biggest military hack

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…

May 10, 2006 · northcountrygazette.org
Spammer gets 20 years of jailtime

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…

May 9, 2006 · tmcnet.com
Beware! Cybercrime

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…

May 9, 2006 · wmcstations.com
Downloading music online is a computer crime

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…

May 8, 2006 · networkworld.com
Symantec initiative to fight phishing

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…

May 8, 2006 · wlbt.com
Avoiding phishing scams

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…

May 7, 2006 · itwire.com.au
Zombie computers the biggest source of spam

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…

May 6, 2006 · REUTERS
Hacker hunting UFO's

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…

May 5, 2006 · PC WORLD
Anti-phishing toolbars efficient

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…

May 5, 2006 · blogs.chron.com
Phishing study

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…

May 4, 2006 · wildcat.arizona.edu
Phishing hits bank's customers

A scam sent through WebMail last week, targeting the UA campus, has prompted police and university officials to warn about giving away personal information…

May 4, 2006 · PC mag.com
Intel will lay a hacker trap

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…

May 3, 2006 · marketwire.com
VoIP phishing attacks

Cloudmark, Inc., the proven leader in messaging security solutions for service providers, enterprises and consumers, has identified and begun blocking phishing…

May 3, 2006 · flightglobal.com
Online risk profile: computer crime

The Airline Risk Management Survey, a new piece of research commissioned by Airline Business and leading airline insurance broker Aon, is the first detailed…

May 2, 2006 · contracostatimes.com
Phishing scams: processing fees

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…

May 2, 2006 · Vnunet.com
Cyber criminals get more sophisticated

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.…

May 1, 2006 · jacksonsun.com
Targeted for identity theft

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…

May 1, 2006 · itvibe.com
Hackers are young

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…

April 30, 2006 · timesleader.com
Parents' problems, online activity

Renee Boland remembers visiting the profiles of her daughter’s friends and discovering questionable photographs. “I was shocked when I saw the pictures of…

April 29, 2006 · tmcnet.com
Computer criminals charged

Five individuals were charged with criminal copyright infringement in Charlotte, North Carolina, as part of an ongoing federal crackdown against international…

April 28, 2006 · Scmagazine.com
Trojan freezes PCs

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…

April 28, 2006 · PC WORLD
Hacker extradited into the US

A British computer hacker facing extradition for breaking into United States military computers said today that computer administrators fail to take easy steps…

April 27, 2006 · kvue.com
Fraudsters steal money from bank accounts

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…

April 27, 2006 · tectonic.co.za
Hackers for free software

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…

April 26, 2006 · SecurityFocus
Hackers use bot nets

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…

April 26, 2006 · dmnews.com
Bank of America vs phishing

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…

April 25, 2006 · news.bbc.co.uk
Raids on net paedophiles

The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) will be staffed 24 hours a day by about 100 police, computer technicians and child welfare…

April 25, 2006 · northjersey.com
Brazilian cyber crime

The rapid rise of the global economy is reshaping the way New Jersey companies do business, creating new opportunities and challenges. This weekly column…