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Hackers appear to have an increasing interest in reaping financial reward from their actions and creations. If, until now, phishing -- using e-mails to lure…
Phishing is a kind of id theft launched by con artists in the Web. It usually begins with spoofed e-mail appearing to be from a trusted financial institution…
Charles Anthony Collins, 34, admitted to a federal judge Monday that he downloaded more than 600 images of child pornography on his personal computer,…
Kaspersky Labs, a leading Russian developer of anti-virus, hacker and spam protection systems announces that they found a series of modifications of a famous…
Joseph Krull, former intelligence officer and present security expert for Virtual Corporation, recently let VeriChip implant a small RFID chip under the skin…
US Senator Larry Craig, Chairman of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, together with the Department of Homeland Security warned about e-mail scams that…
Singapore law enforcement start a wide-scale action to counteract cyberterrorism. It will be a 3-year program with a $ 23 million budget, Reuters informs. In…
After two months of promising to update its media player and block the threat of malware infection in it, Microsoft officials on Tuesday admitted that WMP 9…
The ChoicePoint scandal that released 4,500 Colorado residents' sensitive financial information to a fraud ring is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to…
A second person, a juvenile, has been sentenced in connection with the release of a computer worm in August 2003 that attacked the same vulnerability in…
Enterprises are watching employees and employees are watching employers with increasing unease on both sides. In our global economy with its fluid workforce,…
An Idaho State University student is facing several charges, both on and off campus, for an alleged computer crime provoked by a parking violation. Ticket…
Like thousands of other merchants, Tammy Harrison thought she had struck gold when hordes visited her website by clicking on the small Internet ads she…
**Who will win a landmark case on customer data protection?** Who decides whether a business is responsible for your data, or if you yourself are? Now it may…
TIMISOARA, Romania -- Two Romanians have been arrested on charges they were part of a crime group that defrauded dozens of people in Europe and the United…
**An organisation that polices child abuse on the internet says the number of reported abusive images has fallen.** According to the Internet Watch…
An amnesty on the prosecution of viewers of internet child pornography has been proposed by a child protection group. The Churches' Child Protection Advisory…
An Idaho State University student is accused of altering another student’s personal records. After the victim watched our story on Thursday, he decided to…
A virus alert and IT security advice website for home PC users and small businesses has been launched by the government. The free site, called…
The Host Country Agreement between the United Nations and the Government of Thailand for the Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal…
In the week the UK topped the G7 league of broadband availability, the government has announced vital steps to curb the growth in security threats associated…
VANCOUVER – Vancouver police say they are getting lots of tips, after raising the alarm about a potential pedophile who has been dropping off hundreds of…
The FBI yesterday warned the public about an on-going mass e-mail scheme involving unsolicited e-mails purportedly sent by the FBI. The e-mails tell the…
SINGAPORE - Cyber terrorists could wreak havoc with a successful attack on critical high-tech systems, Singapore said on Tuesday in announcing plans to spend…
*Note: This is an excerpt. Link to full article is at the bottom.* Cyber Threats The cyber-threat to the U.S. is serious and continues to expand rapidly the…
So, you've got two firewalls, an intrusion prevention system [IPS] and antivirus software deployed, and you're feeling pretty good. Servers are patched,…
Legal rights for a sale in an e-commerce transaction are still a grey area. While consumers are not adequately protected in India, 13 countries have taken a…
The penal sanction against trespass or breaking and entry cannot hold against an act of hacking into a computer network and unlawfully acquiring proprietary…
BEIJING, Feb. 21 - Honkers Union of China (HUC), the earliest and largest hacker group in China and ranking number five in the world, has announced its…
Organized crime on the internet is a growing threat but the sky is not falling. That was the general message at a "town hall" event at the RSA Conference…