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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…
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…
Two vulnerabilities were found in Mozilla Firefox that combined allow an attacker to run arbitrary code. The Mozilla Suite is only partially vulnerable. By…
In sharpening their statutes, many jurisdictions are deciding that federal mandates, approved after highly publicized sex crimes against children in the…
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…
As part of its growing antipiracy campaign, Microsoft is testing a program that offers free licensed versions of Windows XP Professional to some customers…
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…
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…
**Companies-developers of spyware created a 2 billion dollars a year industry. ** The number of computers infected with spyware remains high, despite the…
"During the month of April, several older viruses maintained their spot on the chart," said Gregg Mastoras, senior security analyst at Sophos. " The Zafi…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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,…
SAN FRANCISCO -- A senior computer security adviser to President Bush has joined a New Jersey technology startup that protects home Internet users from…