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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…
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…