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September 13, 2005 · Kanzas City Star
Users beware: pirates nearby

Naga Jayadev loves the freedom of connecting from a Westport coffeehouse to his corporate office in McLean, Va., using only his laptop computer and a wireless…

September 13, 2005 · PR Newswire
McAfee will protect against worms, spyware, spam

PR -- McAfee, Inc., the leader in Intrusion Prevention and Security Risk Management, today announced that it has extended its Deployment Assistance Program to…

September 12, 2005 · The Inquirer
A critical flaw in Microsoft Windows

Software giant Microsoft has given advance warning that it is planning to release a patch for a critical flaw in Windows. Vole is not saying what the problem…

September 12, 2005 · Vnunet.com
A flaw in Firefox

Firefox is susceptible to a buffer overflow attack that is deemed highly critical. The flaw was discovered by security expert Tom Ferris and affects all…

September 11, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Beware using cards online

LONDON (Reuters) - Half of adults used plastic to shop online last year, the UK payments association said on Thursday. A report published by APACS (the…

September 10, 2005 · Long Island Press
Child Porn Arrest,

The Computer Crimes Section detectives arrested a 45-year-old man on Sept. 2 for possession of child pornography. Suffolk police say Robert Allen of…

September 9, 2005 · kvue.com
Former student-hacker sentenced

Christopher Andrew Phillips was sentenced to five years probation and ordered to pay $170,056 restitution for hacking the computer system at the University of…

September 9, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
IT criminalysts meet for forum, cybercrime

Forensic experts and senior police officers from around the world are gathering in Dublin today for a conference on tackling serious crime. Around 150 officers…

September 8, 2005 · Channel Register
Fears over e-banking in UK, research

A recent study by analyst Forrester Research has unearthed conflicting views about the safety or otherwise of online banking. The survey of 11,300 UK net users…

September 8, 2005 · InformationWeek
Cisco flaws could damage Net

Cisco on Wednesday confirmed that routers and other devices running the newest versions of its IOS (Internetwork Operating System) are vulnerable to serious…

September 7, 2005 · Sophos
Islamic Porn Trojan

Experts at SophosLabs™, Sophos's global network of virus and spam analysis centers, have warned users about a Trojan horse which tries to interrupt surfing of…

September 7, 2005 · softpedia
Yahoo hosts phishing websites

Anti-spam group Spamhaus accused Yahoo of being a host for thousands of phishing sites. Spamhaus is a non-profit organisation which is involved in anti-spam…

September 6, 2005 · ABC Newc
Kazaa file sharing infringes with copyright, ruling

The music industry has vowed to pursue any company engaged in illegal file sharing after the Federal Court ruled that Sharman Networks was guilty of infringing…

September 6, 2005 · Business Week
ID theft crackdown

Count Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), a feisty foe of Big Government, as a new believer in federal action to thwart identity theft. In advance of a Commerce…

September 6, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Chip-and-pin against credit card fraud

The increased use of technology may actually make identity theft worse, according to research from the University of East Anglia. In a speech at the BA…

September 5, 2005 · chinatechnews.com
China holds antis-pam forum

China's highest level anti-spam summit was held in Beijing this past weekend. Representatives from businesses that account for more than half of the world's…

September 5, 2005 · Vnunet.com
Mytob on top, August charts

Security vendors are now reporting on the August virus figures, and it looks as though Mytob has topped all the charts. Mytob variants accounted for over half…

September 4, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Microsoft vs great evil of the Internet

At a High Technology Crime Investigation Association event on Wednesday, Microsoft Latest News about Microsoft announced plans to launch a Web site that will…

September 3, 2005 · PC Pro
Hacker war

Different groups of hackers are competing with each other to create the greatest number of infections. According to security firm Kaspersky, cyber wars…

September 2, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Images of strategic objects unleashed, Google Earth

Satellite photos of major security facilities in Korea, including Cheong Wa Dae and the bases of the U.S. Forces Korea, are posted on the Google website, the…

September 2, 2005 · The Inquirer
Phishing and viruses stats

It seems our friends the phishers and virus writers take holidays like the rest of us. According to security outfit Postini, there was a 90 per cent reduction…

September 1, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Zotob author may be a mastermind of more than 20 viruses

The teenager arrested on suspicion of writing and distributing the Zotob Windows 2000 worm may have authored more than 20 other viruses, it has emerged. The…

September 1, 2005 · CNET News.com
Google vs Microsoft, round 2

Google asks court to void Lee's Microsoft pact, discusses another chapter in the case that took place last week when Google asked a federal judge in California…

August 31, 2005 · sda-asia.com
Microsoft to fight phishing with a new toolbar for Internet Explorer

Microsoft has revealed that anti-phishing features would be made available to Internet Explorer 6 users through an update to the company's MSN Toolbar. The…

August 31, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
US man pleads guilty to selling Microsoft

A Meriden man has pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to the theft of the source code to Microsoft's Windows software. William Genovese Junior…

August 30, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Zotob and Mytob were originated by Russian hacker

One of the two men arrested last week on charges of creating and mailing the Zotob bot worm also authored some, but not all, of the many Mytob worms in…

August 30, 2005 · PC WORLD
Cybercriminal and the army of zombies

In 2004, after months of putting a virtual tail on a hacker who called himself Pherk, FBI agent Timothy Nestor had the guy right where he wanted him. Though…

August 29, 2005 · COMPUTERWORLD
Anti-spam problem

Trying to stop junk email by filtering out words such as ‘sex’ didn’t work for Jeff Andrew, because incoming emails to his recruitment firm eJobs also used the…

August 29, 2005 · ynetnews.com
Hackers: Trojan horse couple arrested

Court in London goes over formalities and Britain prepares to hand over Michael and Ruth Haephrati to Israel for trial over affair that stormed Israel Modi…

August 28, 2005 · The New York Time
Alleged worm hacker detained

Two men were arrested overseas on Thursday on charges of unleashing a computer worm that infected networks across the United States nearly two weeks ago, the…