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Tomorrow is D-Day for a dangerous computer virus which has spread throughout the world via email and is programmed to destroy PC files on February 3. Email…
A London-based Israeli couple at the centre of one of the world's largest industrial espionage and computer hacking scandals have been extradited to Israel to…
A fast-spreading e-mail worm is raising alarms because its sole purpose is to obliterate the everyday working documents widely used by consumers, students and…
A Kama Sutra computer virus could delete millions of everyday files on PCs across the world, experts warn. The worm was nicknamed after the love-making bible…
The popular Winamp music player suffers from a zero-day vulnerability that attackers are already exploiting, a security company warned Monday. A patch is not…
A group of security vendors teamed up Monday to establish industry standards for identifying spyware and testing methods for eradicating it as there’s growing…
A US federal judge has sentenced a convicted hacker known as "illwill" to two years in prison for selling the code for Microsoft's closely-guarded Windows…
A year ago Jacqui Rogers, a retiree in southern Oregon who dabbles in vintage costume jewelry, went on eBay and bought 10 butterfly brooches made by Weiss, a…
Internet researchers at Harvard and Oxford universities said on Tuesday they are seeking to enlist Web users in a program to name and shame suppliers of…
Security analysts are warning computer users about a new and potentially destructive Internet worm that can obliterate important documents. The worm, called…
Harvard University's Berkman Center and the Oxford Internet Institute have launched a "Neighborhood Watch" initiative against spyware and other malicious…
The United States, with anti-spam laws in place, still tops the "Dirty Dozen" list of countries that spew the most unsolicited e-mail, a new survey says.…
A boffin at Cambridge University says that the Voice over IP system used by Skype is a brilliant tool if you want to carry out denial-of-service attacks. Jon…
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Computer Security Institute (CSI) announced today the results of its 10th annual Computer Crime and Security Survey: average cybercrime…
Google, the world's most popular Internet search engine, yesterday launched a Chinese-language service that will be stripped of content deemed offensive or…
With help from Microsoft, Washington state filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a company that allegedly used spam and misleading advertising to frighten users…
ISLAMABAD: The world famous Nigerian Advance fee fraud known as ‘419 Scam’, used to send e-mails or postal letters offering to move a billion of US dollar…
**Decision of the Court : ** Partial confirmation of Decision of First Instance Court of Paris 8 July, 2005 **Report of the Dispute : ** The Court rules on a…
It’s getting so you can’t stick your head out onto the Internet anymore without someone trying to sell you something, infect your computer with viruses or…
Online crime in the US alone caused $67.2bn in damages last year, according to a survey conducted by the FBI. The findings were based on a poll of 2,066…
A 20-year-old accused of using hundreds of thousands of hijacked computers, or "bot nets," to damage systems and send massive waves of spam across the…
A nonprofit technology group asked the Federal Trade Commission on Monday to stop a software developer from allowing "deceptive and unfair" methods in…
The chief executive of an Internet portal at the center of a widening securities fraud investigation denied allegations Sunday that he violated securities…
You have probably heard about identity theft, in which people steal other people's personal information to use for illegal purposes. In a new scheme called…
A 19-year-old Spanish hacker broke into a U.S. Navy database, jeopardizing the security of a nuclear submarine maintenance facility in California. The hacker…
Finnish security outfit F-Secure has had to issue a security warning about its own products. In a security bulletin here, F-Secure said a flaw in its software…
Sahil Gupta, the second man charged over the Telecom voicemail hacking incident in April, walked free from an Auckland court last week. Gupta was charged along…
Microsoft Corp. has commended the Bulgarian law-enforcement National Services to Combat Organized Crime (NSCOC) agency for investigations leading to the arrest…
The folks at the new regional computer forensics lab in Centennial say they're going to take a byte out of crime. They led journalists on a tour of the new…
The FBI reports that 9 out of 10 organizations in the country are victims of some sort of computer security incident, and one-fifth are hit more than 20 times…