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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…
**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…
San Diego, CA – A Christian group named The Resistance is calling for a nation-wide boycott to Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFIDs) currently being…
**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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
TORONTO (CP) - Thirty-nine per cent of Canadians consider identity theft, such as having passwords and personal information stolen, to be their primary…
Top world's Internet providers have announced the establishment of a global anti-hacker alliance (Fingerprint Sharing Alliance). BT Group, Deutsche Telekom,…
** Microsoft is developing analytical tools to help international law enforcement agencies track and fight cybercrime.** Microsoft unveiled the tools…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
People attacking computer systems are named as hackers in mass media (and accordingly in a society). However many representatives of a computer underground…
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…
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…
**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,…
A Christchurch scientist has been fined in connection with last month's nationwide Internet child pornography bust. Michael Harris submitted his credit card…
Computer Crime Research Center is proud to announce it opened a discussion board -- [http://forum.crime-research.org](http://forum.crime-research.org). This…
**"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…
The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced that the former Information Technology Manager of Creative Explosions,…
Police have charged 29 people on the Sunshine Coast after a week-long police operation targeting computer child pornography. Police from Task Force Argos,…