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The FDIC on Friday urged banks to enhance their protections against spyware, to limit the risk that customers' personal data may be stolen. The guidance from…
Israeli technology firm Blue Security has reportedly set up a plan known as the "Blue Frog Initiative" to hammer spam websites with thousands of complaints.…
The Australian Bankers Association is still grappling with two-factor authentication for Internet transactions and has almost hit a "brick wall" in its…
Spanish authorities are reported to have arrested 310 people as part of an international investigation into one of the Internet's most active "419" or…
Investigators had no doubt Johnny Oxendine was visiting child-porn sites on the laptop computer he used while working for Lockheed Martin Corp. Three hard…
More than 40 million credit card customers are at risk of fraud after hackers pilfered data from a US company that processes online transactions. CardSystems…
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Yesterday Ukrainian police approved the fact that they arrested a group of people and Dmitri Golubov as a leader of the group suspectedly committing crimes…
A new instant messaging worm that masquerades as Apple Computer's iTunes application and drops adware on infected Windows PCs has been found. The worm, dubbed…
A California, Mo., man with two previous sex offenses on his record was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison Wednesday for producing and transporting child…
The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced that Roman Meydbray, 27, of San Jose, California, the former Information…
According to the Better Business Bureau, the international lotto scam that recently tricked an Ocala woman is No. 6 on the BBB's list of top 10 scams. Scam No.…
The sheer scope of the impact is mind-boggling. A recent security breach at a major credit card processor reportedly exposed more than 40 million card-holder…
Internet fraud is costing the National Australia Bank about $1 million a month and it could blow out to as much as $30 million a year by 2008. The NAB figures…
A newly discovered and as-of-yet unpatched security vulnerability in Windows XP could let an attacker remotely crash computers. The flaw affects the Windows…
Banks across the UAE were hit by a wave of hacking attacks last month, with at least two banks reporting they had fought off the hackers. National Bank of…
Eleven pornographic images - some girls, some boys, some of both, one from Missouri, 10 from around the world, all graphically sexual in nature. A 48-year-old…
Mozilla's SpeadFirefox.com community marketing site became an unwitting spam platform after it was hit by "unknown remote attackers," the site's managers said.…
Intel's compilers recognize when they're running on an AMD processor, and generate code that either degrades performance or causes it to crash. That's one of…
A retired South Texas police sergeant is accused of downloading child pornography on a city-owned computer while he was on duty. Santiago Salinas, 48, was…
A downward turn in overall cyber crime has hit its fourth year, said the 10th-annual survey on computer crime released Thursday, and average financial losses…
Latest market studies have reported that after all the hype surrounding spam mails and anti-spam utilities; users are still falling big time to the frauds…
The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit has been called in after the local force failed to find any suitable leads. Computer crime experts at the National Hi-Tech…
A Labour MP is attempting to raise the maximum sentences that can be handed down on UK citizens who are convicted of hacking and DoS attacks. Tom Harris, MP…
The Mozilla Foundation has fixed several security flaws in its Firefox browser but has left people in the dark about what some of the issues entail. Firefox…
The international recording industry today welcomed the adoption by Ukraine of a landmark CD plant law that is a decisive step in the fight against the…
30 hours of community service and a suspended jail sentence have been handed down to Sven Jaschan after he admitted writing the Sasser worm A German judge on…
MasterCard's recent admission that 40 million customers could be affected by the lastest in a string of high-profile breaches has bankers scrambling to keep up…
The IFCC (Internet Fraud Complaint Center) received over 200,000 complaint submissions for 2004, an increase of 66.6% from 2003. The total dollar loss from all…
Postini, the industry 's leading provider of email security and management services, today announced that phishing attempts in June were once again on the rise…