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May 10, 2005 · ployer
Google's 15 min DNS headache

Saturday, access to the world's leading Internet search engine, google.com was unavailable for 15 mins. The search page reportedly was down from 6:45 p.m. to 7…

May 10, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
More critical flaws in Firefox

Two vulnerabilities were found in Mozilla Firefox that combined allow an attacker to run arbitrary code. The Mozilla Suite is only partially vulnerable. By…

May 9, 2005 · Watch Right
Crackdown on Molesters

In sharpening their statutes, many jurisdictions are deciding that federal mandates, approved after highly publicized sex crimes against children in the…

May 8, 2005 · Associated Press
Child porn: pastor's case

LOS ANGELES An Orange County youth pastor has pleaded guilty to sending child pornography over the Internet to an undercover F-B-I agent he met at a North…

May 7, 2005 · ZDNet UK
Microsoft grants licenses left and right

As part of its growing antipiracy campaign, Microsoft is testing a program that offers free licensed versions of Windows XP Professional to some customers…

May 6, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Accelerated privacy leak, Google

Google Labs has released a beta version of its Web Accelerator software designed to make surfing the Internet faster and more efficient. The search giant said…

May 6, 2005 · Cxotoday.com
Phishing: Is Instant Messaging Secure?

A recent report from Websense, a security firm and the Anti-Phishing Working Group shows how recent phishing trends have been changing and are in turn getting…

May 6, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Spyware attacks surfers

**Companies-developers of spyware created a 2 billion dollars a year industry. ** The number of computers infected with spyware remains high, despite the…

May 5, 2005 · Sophos
April Top 10 Viruses

"During the month of April, several older viruses maintained their spot on the chart," said Gregg Mastoras, senior security analyst at Sophos. " The Zafi…

May 5, 2005 · PC WORLD
Phishing gets more accurate

The latest figures from the Anti-Phishing Working Group offer cold comfort for anyone concerned about phishing. Although the number of attacks seems to have…

May 5, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Credit cards: $5mn stolen from ATMs

Ukrainian Inter-Bank Payment Systems Member Association (EMA) states that $5 million have been stolen from ATMs owing to credit card fraud in Ukraine during…

May 4, 2005 · Business Week
Military data leak

Just a few clicks were enough to reveal names, training procedures and other secrets the U.S. military thought it had blacked out from an electronic report.…

May 4, 2005 · ZDNet UK
Piracy: Ukraine in "priority watch list"

The United States has placed China on its "priority watch list" of countries failing to give adequate protection to intellectual property rights (IPR) such as…

May 4, 2005 · The Register
Hackers are becoming more sophisticated

Bugs in anti-virus scanners and various media players joined flaws in Microsoft and Oracle software products in a list of the 20 most serious vulnerabilities…

May 4, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer crime statistics

Russia -- Department "K" (a department on fighting high tech crimes) revealed 4,295 crimes in the sphere of high technologies for the first 6 months of 2004,…

May 3, 2005 · Washingtonpost
Ex-Bush Adviser Joins Cybercrime Startup

SAN FRANCISCO -- A senior computer security adviser to President Bush has joined a New Jersey technology startup that protects home Internet users from…

May 3, 2005 · rediff.com
Red Hackers come back!

The "Red Hacker Alliance," the largest and earliest hacking outfit in China has regrouped after a short break. With some 20,000 hackers, the alliance was once…

May 3, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Money laundering and cybercrime

The emergence of electronic money and global systems of electronic payments formed a parallel banking system. It has the entire network of semi-legal financial…

May 2, 2005 · wired news
US form a hacker crew

The U.S. military has assembled the world's most formidable hacker posse: a super-secret, multimillion-dollar weapons program that may be ready to launch…

May 2, 2005 · Rian Novosti
Internet is a threat to Russia

FSB analysts have admitted for the first time that the Internet poses a threat to Russian authorities. Referring to the experience of Ukraine and Georgia, a…

May 1, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russian piracy is on the rise

Two senators known for carefully taking public stands have stepped into the intellectual property arena by calling for the U.S. to get tough on Russia and…

April 30, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Ukraine ranks 57th in e-readiness survey

Ukraine ranked 57th in an annual survey of the world's Web-savviest nations by aggressively rolling out broadband and wireless Internet connections. As…

April 29, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer crimes: reasons and consequences

Computer technologies and international computer systems created a new environment. This environment favors crimes of national and transnational levels.…

April 29, 2005 · InformationWeek
Phishers Play Off Google.com

Misspelled domains have been used by the scabrous almost since URLs were created. Pornographers were among the first to adopt the tactic of registering domains…

April 28, 2005 · Canada.com
Child porn: cop's case

A senior Vancouver police officer has been suspended pending an investigation into possession of child pornography. Province sources say the man is the head of…

April 28, 2005 · REUTERS
Cybercrime costs billions

Cybercrime costs societies billions of euros every year, but it is not easy for European citizens to report that their digital identity has been stolen,…

April 28, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Cybercrime: Eleventh UN Crime Congress

More than 4,000 participants attended the 11th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice held in Bangkok from 18-25 April. The Congress organized…

April 27, 2005 · Silicon.com
IT conference targeted, hackers

Hackers infiltrated an IT exhibition last week and attacked delegates' computers with a new type of wireless attack. Security experts attending the Wireless…

April 27, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
eBay hacker jailed

A former Los Alamos National Laboratory computer specialist was sentenced to eight months in prison on Monday for hacking into and damaging the computers of…

April 27, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Pirates: $1bn losses only to the US

More than 1 million of pirated disks were seized during a raid in Moscow several days ago. This crackdown was not the first and not the last, though there were…