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A 20-year-old school dropout has broken into an online banking system and stolen some 50 million won ($A66,111), causing alarm over the security of South…
Phishing attacks are getting harder to spot as cybercriminals become increasingly skilled at disguising their fraudulant Web sites Phishers are becoming…
A Dunedin academic who admitted hacking into his ex-employer's system in the US caused $8290 worth of damage, not the $US441,122.50 ($NZ627,396) claimed by the…
Cryptographers have discovered a way to hack Bluetooth-enabled devices even when security features are switched on. The discovery may make it even easier for…
A man of Ekaterinburg, Russia, was tried and sentenced in charges of distribution of child porn. The accused was condemned to three-years conditional sentence…
**Security expert says the attack that brought down MSN in Korea wasn’t after financial data.** The hacker attack that shut down Microsoft’s Korean MSN site…
IP Crime Congress, 5th - 6th July 2005. Royal College of Surgeons, London. The event is officially backed & fully endorsed by the Patent Office, the Home…
eTrust Anti-Spam, a powerful, easy-to-use anti-spam and fraud-detection solution. eTrust Anti-Spam is the most recent addition to CA's eTrust PC security…
Network equipment maker Cisco Systems and internet portal Yahoo! are combining their efforts to combat email spam and forgery in a step that's expected to help…
The UK government is proposing changes to a fraud law that would mean scammers behind phishing attacks could face up to 10 years in jail. The Home Office has…
It had already been too long since any vulnerability has been discovered in Internet Explorer, so things had to go back to normal. Even if we’re not talking…
A former Perth nurse has been released on bail after appearing in court on child pornography charges. It is alleged a computer at Eamon Albin Starrett's…
The romantic, almost noble notion of the lone-gunman hacker popularised in films such as War Games and Hackers has been replaced by a crude reality - they are…
MasterCard International said it has successfully shut down nearly 1,400 global phishing websites � 300 operating from Asia Pacific � last year through its…
Russian law enforcement have finished the preliminary investigation of a case involving a man of Moscow, Russia, who suspectedly committed fraud using payment…
A growing number of criminals are using internet sites such as eBay to sell counterfeit and stolen goods, police said yesterday. The warning comes just days…
The CIA is conducting a secretive war game, dubbed "Silent Horizon," this week to practice defending against an electronic assault on the same scale as the…
A hacker who broke into the computer system at Jackson Community College may have accessed as many as 8,000 Social Security numbers, the college said Monday.…
The investigation of computer crime involving a group of 39 people was finished in Volgograd, Russia. They committed illegal access to computer information…
Users of instant messaging applications from Yahoo Inc. and America Online Inc. are being warned this week of two new threats spreading via instant messaging.…
Russian police decided to employ hackers. Hackers have created their own enhanced three-level security system. Policemen admitted that it is impossible to…
WASHINGTON, D.C. Acting Assistant Attorney General John C. Richter of the Criminal Division, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs…
**The developer's anti-piracy program reportedly can be easily sidestepped, potentially frustrating its plans to check the use of unlicensed copies of…
A 15 YEAR old Kiwi hacker has been sentenced to three months in a juvenile detention centre and his mum ordered to pay $1496.50 in reparations. The youth was…
The Justice Department will launch a national sex offender registry Web site that will allow people to check state databases with a single search, U.S.…
Microsoft has patched a potentially dangerous flaw on its www.xbox360.com website after security experts warned the software giant of a cross-site scripting…
According to the Infiormation center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, 13723 computer crimes were committed in Russia last year.…
UK banks plan to delay transfers between account holders of the same group by up to a day in order to introduce new security checks. The move is designed to…
Computer users anxious about viruses and identity theft have a new reason to worry: hackers have found a way to lock up the electronic documents on your…
HAckers are increasingly using corporate Internet resourses to launch DDoS attacks against businesses not on purpose to take down networks, but to be used as…