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Technology News, AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein is busy telling the same clarifying story to media outlets over and over again in effort to squelch the rumor.…
Derek Wyatt MP, chairman of the All Party Internet Group (APIG), has filed notice of a 10 Minute Rule Bill calling for amendments to the Computer Misuse Act…
A US court has sentenced a Louisiana man to six months in prison after finding him guilty of infecting WebTV users with a Trojan that plagued emergency…
A Thunder Bay family was appalled to discover that their daughter — a Grade 6 student — had her photo posted on a peer’s website. Anita Berglund, a family…
Someone reportedly got access to a Kansas Wesleyan University bank account and made about $10,000 in purchases, according to police. Deputy Salina Police Chief…
DAVID N. KELLEY, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JUJU JIANG, 24, of Flushing, New York, was sentenced today to…
According to the Association for Payment Clearing Services (Apacs), the clearing association, criminals stole almost GBP 500,000,000, despite the introduction…
**Spam losing inbox battle, polls suggest** *Unwanted ads start to decline; Canadians reclaim their e-mail* Canadians are finally winning the fight against…
Hackers are increasingly using websites rather than email attachments to spread malicious code, security watchers have warned. In its six-monthly Web Security…
More than 150 college applicants - including one who applied to Duke University - have been rejected by their chosen schools as unfit for admission. What did…
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has reported that phishers are commanding ever larger arrays of co-opted Internet infrastructure. In January, there were…
CLINTON TOWNSHIP -- Macomb County authorities are joining forces with the FBI in a move they say will allow them to prosecute more cases in the ever-growing…
The world’s first MMS-spread mobile phone virus called Commwarrior, which also attempts to replicate through Bluetooth wireless technology, has been detected…
Companies relying on older versions of Symantec security appliances are being targeted with DNS (Domain Name System) poisoning attacks, which direct end users…
Lexis Nexis says hackers commandeered one of its databases, gaining access to the personal files of as many as 32,000 people. Federal and company investigators…
Virus analysts at Kaspersky Lab have been investigating the recent Bagle outbreak, and come to the conclusion that the authors of Bagle, Zafi and Netsky are…
Dejan Levaja, certain security expert, in his posting to [BugTraq archive at Security…
Hackers tried to transfer money from the personal account of the husband of the President of Latvia Vaira Vike-Freiberga and were caught red-handed. Criminals…
A New Zealand computer hacker has accessed the private bank accounts of dozens of unsuspecting Kiwis, showing how easy it is to break into our internet banking…
The Ukrainian Antivirus Center has summarized the results of virus activity in February 2005. The TOP 10 most dangerous viruses in February is as follows: 1.…
STOW -- A Hudson resident, formerly of Stow, is facing up to 20 years in jail and upwards of $250,000 in fines in connection with an Internet fraud scheme that…
**Police and computer experts in Wales will join force for an event aimed at finding ways of tackling the growing problem of internet crime.** They first…
The number of computer crimes committed via the Internet in Russia increased to 13 thousands in 2004, said Boris Miroshnikov, Chief Officer of the Bureau of…
Anyone is able to track and id a PC anywhere on the Internet by using its PC clock deviation as a fingerprint. Clock deviation is what a computer thinks the…
Arrests and convictions for internet child porn offences have more than quadrupled in just two years. New figures showed 2,234 perverts were cautioned or…
Microsoft Research announced last week that anti-spam technology has been used to create more effective vaccine designs for HIV. Such machine learning…
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) - Symantec Corp. on Wednesday said it secured an extension of a licensing agreement with Microsoft Corp. to continue providing…
**Paris Hilton is not alone.** According to a Los Angeles security consulting firm that went skulking outside the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood on…
Online auctioneer eBay, the first aim for phishing con artists, has been used as an unwitting accomplice. A vulnerability in eBay's server configuration allows…
Since 1998, malicious hackers have had a long time to work on attacking vulnerabilities of Internet Explorer starting with version 4.0 and above, so there have…