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July 10, 2005 · The Australian
Child porn cases

Dozens of men accused of downloading child pornography from the internet may have been wrongly prosecuted, according to expert prosecution and defence…

July 9, 2005 · Daily Southtown
Computer crime: tips from police

Detectives on guard for online scams Wednesday, July 6, 2005 By Juliana Keeping Special to the Daily SouthtownInternet scam artists today are a prevalent…

July 9, 2005 · TorontoSun.com
Computer crime is ever-increasing

More than half of all Canadian computer owners were victims of Internet crime and didn't know it, according to a 2005 study commissioned by McAfee, a North…

July 8, 2005 · News.scotsman.com
Sasser boy facing jail

A German teenager is facing a jail term after admitting yesterday to creating and unleashing the "Sasser" computer virus that crashed systems across the world,…

July 8, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russia, Biggest Ever Credit Card Scam

CardSystems Solutions Inc. admits it made a huge mistake after some 40 million credit card accounts ended up in the wrong hands. Some of those account numbers…

July 7, 2005 · Australian IT
Acrobat flaw

Adobe has issued a warning that flaws in versions of its popular Acrobat document reader for Linux and other Unix-based operating systems could allow a hacker…

July 7, 2005 · InformationWeek
Viruses change us

The threat of spyware and viruses being secretly downloaded on their computers has caused the majority of consumers to change their online behavior over the…

July 6, 2005 · Tahoe Daily Tribune.com
Beware: virus, FBI warns

An FBI agent issued a warning to computer owners about fraud and a fake e-mail with a link for protection against the Trojan horse program which actually ends…

July 6, 2005 · Maiami Herald
Cybercrime cost about $400 billion

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE - News), the leader in Intrusion Prevention and Security Risk Management…

July 5, 2005 · ZDNet UK
Microsoft unveils a new unpatched IE flaw

Microsoft has issued a security advisory for Internet Explorer, after a research firm published a working exploit to demonstrate how attackers could take…

July 5, 2005 · addict3d.org
Apache HTTP server vulnerability

Discussion Apache is prone to an HTTP request smuggling attack. A specially crafted request with a 'Transfer-Encoding: chunked' header and a 'Content-Length'…

July 5, 2005 · idm.net.au
McAfee on cybercrime

Cybercriminals have split into different classes, ranging from amateur cyber delinquents to professional cyber gangs, but they both share the same purpose of…

July 5, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Cybercrime: virus activity

Sophos, a world leader in protecting businesses against spam and viruses, has published a report revealing the top ten viruses and hoaxes causing problems for…

July 4, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Piracy court case

In a major blow to technological innovation today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favour of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in a huge P2P case. Since the case began in…

July 4, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Credit card fraud is paying

The Ukrainian law enforcement detained an Internet con artist who allegedly created quite an efficient scheme of covering his tracks and stole quite a sum out…

July 3, 2005 · wired news
Google maps hacks

The internet's two largest search engines are begging to get hacked. On Wednesday, Google opened a set of programming interfaces for its popular Google Maps…

July 3, 2005 · Times On Line
Child porn in Britain

DOZENS of men accused of downloading child pornography from the internet may have been wrongly prosecuted, according to expert prosecution and defence…

July 3, 2005 · THE STAR
New record for phishing attacks in May, IBM

The number of phishing attacks detected by IBM Corp. rose to a record high in May as massive volumes of scam e-mails were pumped out by criminals seeking to…

July 2, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Internet fraud: con artist sentenced to 3 years of jail

Novgorod City court has refused to commute punishment for the Novgorod local man charged of Internet fraud. According to the Novgorod police department, a…

July 1, 2005 · Yahoo!News
New Wi-Fi Hacker Attack

To truly understand a criminal, you have to get inside his mind and think as he does. Follow his steps. See what he sees. LucidLink Wireless Security has done…

July 1, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Cybercrime in Russia

The ever-increasing number of computer crimes is outrunning the trend of computerization in Russia. According to the According to the Information center of the…

June 30, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Hacker Cracks Google Video Security

The Norwegian who became a hacker hero for developing software to crack DVD encryption has posted a programme to break the lock on Google’s new video viewer.…

June 30, 2005 · PC Pro
National Hi Tech Crime Unit Arrests Phishing Gang

If you ever wondered whether the threat of phishing and identity theft is being overblown by security companies, the National Hi Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) has…

June 29, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Tracking Pedophiles

Cops might just have a new weapon to fight pedophiles: the Child Exploitation Tracking System. CETS is a computer system that allows global police agencies to…

June 29, 2005 · thebostonchannel.com
UConn Personal Data Exposed to Hackers

University of Connecticut officials have discovered a 20-month-old security breach of a computer server that contains Social Security numbers and other…

June 29, 2005 · economictimes.indiatimes.com
Sun's sting operation

In yet another call-centre scandal, which has further exposed the security chinks in Indian BPO companies, the UK-based tabloid 'The Sun' reported on Thursday…

June 28, 2005 · news.earthweb.com
MasterCard: 40M Credit Card Accounts Exposed

In what is considered one of the largest security breaches, MasterCard International said information on more than 40 million credit cards lay exposed at…

June 27, 2005 · Americas Network
Gartner Reports That Viruses and Worms Are Top IT Security Threats

Firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention, and anti-virus software are the high-priority defenses information technology (IT) managers are pursuing this…

June 27, 2005 · ZDNet UK
Microsoft Internet Explorer vs Mozilla Firefox, Opera 8.01

Microsoft does not plan to update Internet Explorer to prevent a spoofing attack that could trick users into giving out personal information to hackers. In the…

June 26, 2005 · The Inquirer
Microsoft's anti spam tactics

Despite the fact that Microsoft is practically forcing ISPs to adopt its Sender ID anti-spam methods, Sysadmins and network professionals don’t believe it will…