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November 3, 2004 · Sunday Mail
Parents face porn claim risk, says MP

PARENTS sending family pictures over the Internet could be accused of child pornography under planned new laws, the State Government has been warned.…

November 3, 2004 · PC WORLD
Secret Service Busts Internet Organized Crime Ring

**Feds allege 1.7 million stolen credit card numbers were involved in global scam.** In what it called an "Information Age undercover investigation," the U.S.…

November 3, 2004 · NEWS TARGET Network
United Nations working group to tackle spam, cyber-crime

**Overview** * More than 250 experts wrapped up two days of talks in Geneva November, 1 on the creation of a United Nations working group which could deal with…

November 2, 2004 · ITV.Com
Online paedophile crackdown urged

**Children's charities are launching a joint campaign with the police to call for more resources to tackle internet paedophiles.** They claim that some…

November 2, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Illegal Internet Access – the Most Popular Internet Crime in Russia

For 10 months 2004 Kurganski Branch Joint Stock Company "UralSviazInform” received 21 complaints from Internet users about the fact of queerly quick spending…

November 1, 2004 · Port Macquarie News
$9000 lost in internet scam

A woman lost $9000 in an internet banking scam at Port Macquarie last week. Police told the News the victim received an email last Monday claiming to be her…

October 31, 2004 · NEWS.com.au
Law faces child sex computer challenge

LAWS relating to child pornography will need to be crafted to keep pace with the changing nature of the crime, Police Commissioner Mal Hyde has warned. Mr Hyde…

October 31, 2004 · The Indian Express
Online extortion: Internet crime on the rise

LOS ANGELES, OCTOBER, 29: When Mickey Richardson got an e-mail from gangsters threatening to bring his online sports betting operation to its knees, he paid…

October 31, 2004 · Lancaster Online
CAP leader’s computer seized

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - MacDonald Stacks, the longtime executive director of Community Action Program of Lancaster County, resigned Friday, a day after a state…

October 30, 2004 · North Texas e-News
Attorney General lands 10-year sentence against child predator

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott this week obtained a maximum10-year sentence following a guilty plea entered by child predator Nicholas Andrew Fallat, 33,…

October 29, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Ukraine: Cyber policemen receive government awards

Recently, Minister of the Interior Nikolay Bilokon rewarded cadets of High Schools at the Ministry of Internal Affairs. There were three cadets of Donetsk Law…

October 29, 2004 · COMPUTERWORLD
Secret Service busts online organized crime ring

OCTOBER 28, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - In what it called an "Information Age undercover investigation," the U.S. Secret Service today announced that it has…

October 29, 2004 · EcommerceTimes
ISPs File Next Barrage of Anti-Spam Lawsuits

**Earthlink filed a federal lawsuit in Atlanta, Georgia, accusing 50 "John Does" of violating the federal CAN-SPAM Act and various other state and federal…

October 28, 2004 · Forensic Computer Service
Cyber Crime Analysis-Litigation Support...

We provide a full range of investigative services for individuals and businesses for private and litigation purposes. Our data security experts also provide…

October 28, 2004 · Petoskey News-Review
Police arrest man for internet fraud

Police have arrested an Emmet County man on charges that he defrauded several people out of thousands of dollars under the guise of fraudulent electronic…

October 27, 2004 · BBC News
Child porn threat to betting site

**Online betting site Blue Square has been attacked by criminals threatening to e-mail out child pornography in its name unless it pays 7000 euros (£4,863). **…

October 27, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Law Improvement: The legal base in fighting cyber crime

Problem of cyber crime induced many states to reconsider their own legislation. Nowadays more than 100 countries (including 60% Interpol members) have no laws…

October 26, 2004 · NEWS.scotsman.com
Police Win Award for Internet Gun Tracking System

A British police force has won international recognition after developing a hi-tech system to track the illegal sale of firearms on the internet, it emerged…

October 26, 2004 · CommsWorld
The World Notices the Spyware Threat

The first story I posted online on this site dealing with spyware was in January 2003, when the site was two months old, “Spyware Getting Nasty”, in which I…

October 26, 2004 · PC WORLD
Internet Extortion Ring Arrested in Russia

It was a case more suited to a Raymond Chandler novel than the annals of computer crime, but that's neither here nor there: Computer cops in the U.S., the…

October 26, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Internet Sex Surfer gets five years in prison

Bradley Sweeney, 46-year-old New Hampshire man has been sentenced to nearly five and a-half years in federal prison. Teachers, parents, law enforcement…

October 25, 2004 · SearchSecurity.com
Online fraud 101

Phishing and fraud make use of constantly evolving techniques: Yesterday's poorly written e-mail is today's polished con, often making use of unpatched…

October 25, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Cyber crime statistics in Ukraine

Global computerization developed new sphere of public relations, which, unfortunately, became the object of illegal actions. The most popular and dangerous…

October 23, 2004 · ABC News Online
Children's department worker charged with porn offences

A 47-year-old man working for the New South Wales Department of Community Services (DOCS) has been charged with possessing child pornography. The department…

October 22, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Child porn business in Ukraine

According to Ukraine Bureau of Interpol, more than 1 000 child porn films were shoot last years. At that, the main personages were from Slavonic states. In…

October 22, 2004 · FRONPAGEMAG.COM
Shutting Down Cyber-Terror

In the War on Terrorism, the terrorists may have an unusual ally: American internet service providers (ISPs). U.S.-based ISPs provide web-hosting for…

October 21, 2004 · The Standard
Internet scams soar

Investors' losses from financial scams have reached HK$11 million this year while the number of suspicious websites that could trick investors is on the rise,…

October 21, 2004 · USA Today
Crooks slither into Net's shady nooks and crannies

Organized crime rings and petty thieves are flocking to the Internet like start-ups in the go-go '90s, federal authorities say — establishing a…

October 21, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Pedophile arrested for rape his own 3 years old daughter

This story shocked Moscow. 27 years old Yuri Khamatov was arrested for rape his own 3 years old daughter. During investigation, police found out that he used…

October 20, 2004 · PittsburghLIVE
Computer fraud unit to be created

The U.S. Attorney's office in Pittsburgh is one of five jurisdictions in the nation that will get new computer fraud units. The Computer Hacking and…