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ZAPOROZHYE, Ukraine (CCRC) - A worker of the Nizhegorodski milk plant, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia, put information on his colleagues on the Internet, including…
A new software system aimed at tracking down paedophiles on the internet has been developed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) with the help of…
An essay in an April trade magazine maintains two-factor authentication can't counter emerging threats, and that the industry would be wise to come up with a…
According to recent study conducted by the [Pew Internet and American Life Project](http://www.pewinternet.org/), email users get more spam, but the harmful…
Web hosting providers and web masters may want to take note of TRUSTe, an online privacy non-profit organization, and professional services firm Ernst &…
ZAPOROZHYE, Ukraine (CCRC) - Administrators of the official website of the Ukrainian opposition leader Victor Yanukovich informed about the hacker attack on…
A Sioux Falls man will be held without bond after making his first court appearance Monday on charges he abducted his girlfriend's 8-year-old granddaughter as…
Panda Software is warning users about the appearance of a new kind of online fraud. During the last few hours, several websites have been detected that try to…
Is cybercrime unstoppable? Gangsters continue to get the best of police... Online crime is growing at breakneck speed while law enforcement, try as they might,…
Police are having to turn down requests to investigate computer crime from businesses due to a lack of resources, the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit said last…
ZAPOROZHYE, Ukraine (CCRC) - The image of an evil computer genius who penetrates into global computer networks from a home PC and who steals someone else's…
A week after the publication of an online phishing quiz to educate internet users about fraud, the first results show that over 90 per cent of us are at risk.…
Microsoft continues to apply deadly blows to his number one enemy, Linux. The Get The Facts company through which Microsoft is trying to fight all the pro…
A computer hard drive, containing confidential data from the Brandenburg police in Germany, has been auctioned over eBay for €20, according to a report by…
**The Russian police's cybercrime division has warned that Russian hackers are the best in the world.** "Everyone knows that Russians are good at maths," said…
A TEACHER at a top private school who was disciplined after exposing security flaws in its computer system has won his unfair dismissal claim. A tribunal ruled…
ZAPOROZHYE, Ukraine (CCRC) - This case was an unusual one. Firstly, hacking appeared relatively not so long ago. Secondly, the criminal meaningly wanted to be…
Just how slippery are phishers? While some amateur scammers have been snared, the big phish have been tough to catch. Professional phishing groups have a…
Anti-virus experts at Sophos are warning users to be wary of an email campaign currently in circulation which poses as a security update from Microsoft. The…
Microsoft launched a software program designed to help police worldwide hunt down child porn traffickers by enabling authorities for the first time to link…
A Loudoun County judge yesterday sentenced the first person convicted of felony spam charges in the nation to nine years in prison but allowed him to remain…
Computer virus incidents grew 50 per cent in 2004 even in the absence of a major new attack, a US security survey claims. The survey by Cybertrust's ICSA Labs…
**Tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime...** Howard Schmidt, the former cybersecurity adviser to the White House, has warned that there aren't enough…
Google's new Gmail service has been outfitted with a number of security features designed to thwart phishing con artists. Its new anti-phishing security…
A new Trojan horse hitting Symbian 60 Series handsets makes the phones useless until they're reformatted, deleting all the stored data, a Finnish security firm…
Detective chief superintendent Sharon Lemon has been appointed head of the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit. She joins the National Crime Squad hi-tech crime…
Computer crime is taking an increasing toll on UK companies, and is estimated to have cost more than £2.4 billion over the past year. A major report issued by…
**Giving all Internet users decent firewalls would go a long way towards preventing DDoS attacks, says Internet bookmaker Blue Square** Online gambling…
**Businesses are facing direct losses to computer criminals of at least £2.4bn a year, research to be published today by the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit will…
"We are seeing an increase in computer crime. More and more lawbreakers are operating in the field to get what they want faster and better," national fraud…