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In a nearby county, a married man with two children logged onto the Internet and engaged in a conversation with what he thought was a 13-year-old girl. Over…
A recent report on trends in computer crime described a 'cyber mafia' of hackers operating protection rackets and the like. It made lurid reading, detailing…
ALLENTOWN -- Former Lehigh County Housing Authority Executive Director John Seitz pleaded guilty Friday to one count of possession of child pornography, a…
Internet fraudsters, motivated by money and armed with sophisticated technology, pose an increased economic threat as they steal private data from companies…
UGUSTA, Maine - The head of the state police announced "modest" steps Thursday to bolster the task force that investigates one of Maine�s fastest-growing…
17 February 2005 - LAWFUEL - The Law News Network - The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced that the former…
Nicholas Lee Jacobsen, 22, pleaded guilty at 15 February in United States District Court in Los Angeles to gaining unauthorized access to a protected computer…
SAN FRANCISCO -- Richard Clarke, former special adviser to the president on cybersecurity, has this advice for Michael Chertoff, the new secretary of the…
You might think that you know how to protect yourself from phishing: Don't click the links in e-mail that purports to be from banks or other institutions. But…
Home computer users could be sued if they allow their computers to be taken over and used by hackers, legal representatives speaking at the RSA Conference in…
FIVE doctors convicted of downloading child porn are free to work in the NHS. Astonishingly four who were suspended by the General Medical Council have had the…
For almost a century, members of the Gambino crime family maintained a violent grip over New York as ruthless practitioners of murder, drug pushing,…
A Brazilian hacker has defaced the Web site of Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds," which is set to be released in cinemas this summer, according to a…
Microsoft, eBay and Visa have created a new organisation to deal with the increasing threat from phishing scams. The [Phish Report…
Kevin Mitnick, formerly one of the most famous U.S. hackers and now the head of a computer consulting company, held a press conference in Moscow on Sunday.…
14-year-old who used a computer worm to launch an attack against Microsoft's main Web site in August 2003 was sentenced in federal court on Friday 11 to three…
Anti-spam experts at Sophos are calling on consumers to boycott companies who try to sell them goods via spam in the run-up to St Valentine's Day on Monday 14…
**Proposals for a World Security Organisation to tackle cyberterrorism continue to alarm experts, including former White House cybersecurity chief Richard…
**Experts have been queuing up to dismiss the latest calls for a crackdown on cyberterror, dismissing the term as marketing speak, hyperbole, or in one case…
A group of chief technology officers (CTOs) from major software vendors have called on the US government to build a national cybercrime commission. The 15…
A man has been charge over an alleged attempt to hack into website co-ordinating relief for victims of the recent tsunami disaster. Daniel James Cuthbert, 28,…
The largest group of people caught viewing child pornography are teenage boys who are seldom prosecuted, the Department of Internal Affairs says. There have…
Japan may be the next happy hunting ground for online swindlers employing sophisticated cyber-tricks to steal personal information for forging credit and cash…
World Security Organisation is a non-starter... A controversial UK security vendor is calling for the creation of a World Security Organisation (WSO) to crack…
A non-profit security think tank called the Shmoo Group has announced the discovery of a flaw in Firefox and other recent browsers, including Mozilla, Safari,…
A paedophile who amassed the biggest collection of internet child pornography ever found in Britain walked free from court yesterday. To the despair of the…
Microsoft's Security Response Center gets many calls for help with security problems, and the security experts there say all of the calls fall into one of…
An investigation into an attempt to con customers of the online bank Smile has led to the arrest of a 21-year-old man in Blackpool UK Police have arrested a…
**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…
A SENATOR is drafting a law that would make possession of child pornography a criminal act in the Philippines. Senator Maria Ana Consuelo "Jamby" Madrigal said…