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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…
A county magistrate in Indiana on Wednesday ordered Stephen D. Puckett, 58, of Crawfordsville, Ind., to be held in jail on $100,000 bond. Puckett, who was…
Statistics released Tuesday by the Federal Trade Commission show that identity theft continues to be the top fraud-related complaint, accounting for 39 percent…
Both Russia and the United States deem it important to expose the root causes of terrorism and its ties with different forms of worldwide religious extremism,…
CYBERCRIME investigators have arrested a Filipino for allegedly using nude photos of young boys to solicit money from unsuspecting gay victims on the Internet,…
PRAGUE -- Under a new, no-fee cooperation program, Microsoft is offering to work more closely with governments to help them detect and mitigate IT security…
Netscape, a unit of Time Warner subsidiary AOL, plans to release a test version of a web browser designed to resist [phishing…
A federal judge has sentenced Jeffrey Lee Parson, a teen hacker who created 2003's MSBlast.b worm. Citing neglectful parents and an Internet that she said was…
MENASHA — Parents are invited to attend a community outreach program Thursday aimed at protecting school children from sexual predators who use the Internet to…
WASHINGTON -- It's a frightening prospect: Cyber hackers roaming the World Wide Web collecting credit card numbers and personal financial information of total…
How's this for gall? A West Virginia man auctioned an airplane on eBay's site and found a buyer willing to pay $16,200 for it. The prospective buyer sent a…
This is the latest form of internet frauds. Many offshore projects are being executed via freelance websites where buyers and coders get together for conducing…