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CCRC informed [earlier](http://www.crime-research.org/news/04.04.2005/1109/) of a theft of the Russian Central Bank's database that had been allegedly stolen…
Toronto police had been seeking "the girl in the pictures" for months. She appeared in nearly 200 images traded over the Internet by those who took sick…
The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., is investigating a recent security breach on its computer network. This comes…
A recent rash of Waukesha area residents scammed by Internet "phishing" artists funneling money to Russia has police concerned what the money is being stolen…
**FBI agents have searched the property of at least 10 people suspected of involvement in electronic break-ins at the US data broker LexisNexis.** Agents…
**A day after launching Netscape 8 and touting the browser's security features, Netscape has released an update to fix several serious security flaws.** The…
Comodo, the online security specialists, today announced the release of Comodo AntiSpam Desktop 2005. Free to install and use, AntiSpam 2005 employs a unique…
An Internet scam cost a man $2,000 after someone convinced him to cash fake money orders to help an overseas student study in Orlando. The victim said he just…
Netscape on Thursday plans to release the final version of Netscape 8, a browser that includes features to protect Web surfers against online scams. Early test…
hirty-five percent of the software installed on personal computers worldwide was pirated in 2004, a one percentage point decrease from 36 percent in 2003. Yet,…
A 10 million dollar lawsuit has been filed by the parents of a minor against Internet giant Yahoo! (yahoo.com) and a man who founded a Yahoo! Group for the…
Corporate insiders who sabotage computers so sensitive they risk endangering national security or the economy commonly are motivated by revenge against their…
**National Hi-Tech Crime Unit should give piracy a lower priority** Earlier this month sentences were handed down to UK members of DrinkorDie, the…
A Yemeni court on Saturday convicted four Yemenis of stealing $332,000 from Canadian oil company Nexen Inc. through Internet fraud, judicial source said. The…
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) and Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) announced a forum and panel session entitled, "Battling…
REDMOND, Wash. -- May 13, 2005 -- The dynamic nature of the Internet and technology can make the protection, maintenance and optimal performance of PCs a…
Providers of identity technologies need to work together more efficiently to beat the onslaught of phishing attacks and identity theft, according to security…
A US hacker has been jailed for 12 months for using a Trojan horse virus to break into US Department of Defense computers. The Indiana man, 21, was part of an…
Larry Johnson, special agent with the Secret Service, Joanne McNabb, chief, Office of Privacy Protection, California Department of Consumer Affairs, and…
The possibility of a mobile virus infecting a car's communications system conjures up images of zombie vehicles travelling driverless around the streets, but…
Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to shut down "one of the world's largest spam operations," which sent millions of…
As we recently [informed](http://www.crime-research.org/news/28.04.2005/1188/), the CCRC director Dr. Vladimir Golubev took part in the 6th workshop on…
MasterCard International Inc. said Tuesday that it has shut down nearly 1,400 phishing sites and more than 750 sites suspected of selling illegal credit-card…
Cisco, Intel and BT have announced a joint initiative focused on wireless security. In particular, they aim to ensure that equipment supports the new WPA2…
TOKYO - In the fortified control room of a major Internet security firm, a beleaguered team of experts slouched behind glowing computer screens, tracking…
ZION, Ill. May 11, 2005 — When the father of a missing 8-year-old found her bloodied body in a ravine, next to her lifeless best friend, it seemed every…
**Entrust and the Anti-Phishing Working Group Discuss Why New On-line Threats Require New Security Approaches** Entrust, Inc., a world-leader in securing…
With the InfoSec Europe exhibition in London, where more than 300 exhibitors crowded and some 100 products - aimed at end-users, businesses and governments -…
A global investigation into the theft of a key piece of software that forms the "backbone" of the worldwide web has led to an arrest of a suspected hacker in…
A Manchester man was sentenced Monday to four months in a federal community corrections facility as part of one year of probation for an Internet scam in which…