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April 5, 2005 · ZDNet UK
Mozilla pays bug hunter $2,500 for Firefox flaw finds

The Mozilla Foundation has given $2,500 to a security researcher for discovering vulnerabilities in its free web browser. The company paid $500 to German…

April 5, 2005 · Mobile Pipeline
New Smartphone Worm Spreads Via MMS, Bluetooth

**The new virus is a variant of an older Symbian smartphone virus and, besides spreading via Bluetooth, now spreads via multimedia messaging.** A variant of a…

April 4, 2005 · press release
Christians call for national boycott of Student RFIDs

San Diego, CA – A Christian group named The Resistance is calling for a nation-wide boycott to Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFIDs) currently being…

April 4, 2005 · pravda.ru
Russian Central Bank's database stolen by hackers

**There is no such thing as total secrecy in banking these days** Illegally duplicated CD-ROMs containing various database can be purchased on the computer…

April 3, 2005 · softpedia
Microsoft forgives the author of the MSBlast worm

Jeffrey Lee Parson, the teenager who was convicted two months ago for the creation of the MSBlast worm, will be forgiven a part of the punishment and won’t…

April 2, 2005 · COMPUTERWORLD
Tips on testifying in a computer crimes case

APRIL 01, 2005 (WINDOWSECURITY.COM) - As an IT professional and working network administrator, you may find yourself called upon to testify as a victim or a…

April 2, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
FBI declares war against hackers

FBI shuts down one the world's most known hacker forums and archive of up-to-date and historical security tools, exploits, and advisories. Now there is a large…

April 1, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russian Courts Attack On-line Libraries

Maxim Moshkov, owner of the biggest and most popular in Russia on-line library lib.ru, has been found guilty of breaching copyright law. On March 30, 2005 the…

April 1, 2005 · Bbspot
Microsoft Purchases Evil From Satan

Redmond, WA - Microsoft purchased evil from Satan for $2.7 billion after many months of tough negotiations. "We've been after Satan for some time," said CEO…

April 1, 2005 · Vnunet.com
Porn worm launches DoS attack on Microsoft

A new worm that purports to offer steamy pictures of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie contains a payload targeted at Microsoft. Ahker-F arrives as an attachment…

April 1, 2005 · Bbspot
Ebay Foils Phishers by Removing Password Requirement

San Jose, CA – Ebay claimed a victory against phishers today when it removed the need for passwords on user accounts. A phisher tries to trick computer users…

April 1, 2005 · Canada.com
Canadians fear identity theft over virus attacks

TORONTO (CP) - Thirty-nine per cent of Canadians consider identity theft, such as having passwords and personal information stolen, to be their primary…

March 31, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Top world ISPs unite in fight against hackers

Top world's Internet providers have announced the establishment of a global anti-hacker alliance (Fingerprint Sharing Alliance). BT Group, Deutsche Telekom,…

March 31, 2005 · ZDNet Australia
Microsoft fighting cybercrime

** Microsoft is developing analytical tools to help international law enforcement agencies track and fight cybercrime.** Microsoft unveiled the tools…

March 30, 2005 · OverclockersClub
Hackers kidnapped 59,000 students

Nearly 59,000 people may have their personal information at the hands of a hacker that cracked in to computer servers at the California State University.…

March 30, 2005 · Chicago Tribune
Spam scam or scam spam?

The e-mail, written in poorly composed English, is deceptively simple: help the widow of a dead Nigerian dictator get possession of $25 million or so in cash…

March 29, 2005 · The Inquirer
Microsoft remedy to secure Web

Microsoft will tackle the growing fear of identity theft in its upcoming version of Windows, codenamed Longhorn, with a technology it calls ‘info-cards’, the…

March 29, 2005 · Vnunet.com
Bounty for Mac virus

A competition to see who could infect an Apple computer running OS X has been scrapped by the organisers after complaints from Apple users and fears of legal…

March 29, 2005 · Star-Telegram
Is Cyberterrorism A Threat For Today?

Cyberterrorists are not a serious problem now, but they will be someday, a computer security expert says. The spooky and vague notion of cyberterrorism is a…

March 29, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Online dating fraud

Have you met anyone online? Do you have any online girlfriends or pals? Have you exchanged photos with them? Do they look like 1 million dollar? Where do they…

March 29, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
New York Teen Pleads Guilty to Making Extortion Threats Against Internet Company

A New York state teen-ager arrested last month for threatening to tell other spammers how to send waves of unsolicited messages to an online instant messaging…

March 29, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Hackers: Computer Outlaws

People attacking computer systems are named as hackers in mass media (and accordingly in a society). However many representatives of a computer underground…

March 28, 2005 · STUFF
Banks fess up on online fraud

New Zealand banks were hit by about 200 Internet banking frauds last year, an informal poll conducted by NZ InfoTech has found. Though the banks say they…

March 28, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russian hacker arrested

Officers of Department K of the Russian criminal police arrested a 20-year-old Tver resident during investigation. He worked as a network administrator with…

March 28, 2005 · Vnunet.com
Hackers Target Browsers To Dodge Firewalls

**Information is still the key target for hackers. Over half of the top 50 malicious codes detected last year were designed to capture personal information,…

March 28, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Child porn: Scientists interested too

A Christchurch scientist has been fined in connection with last month's nationwide Internet child pornography bust. Michael Harris submitted his credit card…

March 27, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
ANNOUNCEMENT: Computer Crime discussion board is open

Computer Crime Research Center is proud to announce it opened a discussion board -- [http://forum.crime-research.org](http://forum.crime-research.org). This…

March 27, 2005 · TechNewsWorld
Phishing Attacks Become More Dangerous, Symantec

**"Offline retailers worked together to reduce fraud over the years and have cut it down to under 1 percent of all retail sales," said Jupiter Research retail…

March 26, 2005 · Cybercrime.gov
Former IT Manager Indicted on Computer Crime Charges

The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced that the former Information Technology Manager of Creative Explosions,…

March 25, 2005 · ABC News Online
29 people charged in child porn crackdown

Police have charged 29 people on the Sunshine Coast after a week-long police operation targeting computer child pornography. Police from Task Force Argos,…