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September 10, 2004 · allAfrica.com
Computer Crime Against Kids Escalates

Less than 4% of rape cases are successfully prosecuted, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has told a discussion on computer crime against children in…

September 10, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Porn prevention on the Net

The Internet has appeared to be a convenient means of communication between paedophiles. Computer technologies open up wide opportunities for perverts to look…

September 10, 2004 · MercuryNews.com
S.J. man arrested in child porn case

A San Jose man was arrested early Wednesday on suspicion of soliciting thousands of dollars worth of child pornography and secretly video recording a young…

September 9, 2004 · Marco Island Sun Times
Local woman's dreams of wealth dashed by fraud

Sabrina Mount is a 25-year-old single mother of three daughters ages 6, 5 and 4. Before her old computer crashed, one of her jobs as a mystery shopper took her…

September 9, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
A hacker nabbed

The Blagoveschensk regional court (Russia) should start hearings on the creation, utilization and distribution of malicious software criminal case. Police…

September 8, 2004 · United States Department of Justice
John Ashcroft's Remarks on Operation Web Snare

Every day, more than half a billion people around the world log on to the Internet to buy and sell goods, to exchange ideas, and to communicate promising…

September 8, 2004 · ZDNet UK
A porn trap to steer clear of

For two years, an immigrant has been trying to get me to tell his story -- one in which he was fired from his job, sent to jail, permanently saddled with a sex…

September 8, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
One can get 15 years jail for hacking

Microsoft was forced to spend 1bn of US dollars on protection of their Windows operation systems from hackers, viruses and "phishers". The global software…

September 7, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Aspects of the suppression of cybercrime

Criminological projection is a process of well-founded learning of future state, level, dynamics and structure of criminality due to examination of tendencies…

September 6, 2004 · Pretoria News
Internet the new frontier in war on terror

The Internet is being used as one of the world's biggest instruments of mass destruction and South Africa is not immune. This, says Israeli University Internet…

September 6, 2004 · IDG.com.sg
Zambia set to pass cybercrime law

An Internet crime bill in Zambia, which includes provisions that could see convicted hackers facing sentences of up to 25 years in jail, has caused some…

September 6, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Australia to catch network paedophiles

Australian police acting as part of an international "cyber cop" network will be able to track down paedophiles who use the Internet to "groom" or lure…

September 4, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer crimes: international prospects

Computer crimes are distant. So, according to the information provided by law enforcement of the Republic of Belarus, they initiated 11 criminal cases against…

September 2, 2004 · The New York Time
26 Hostages Released at Russian School, but Standoff Goes On

BESLAN, Russia, Sept. 2 – Heavily armed fighters who seized a school here in southern Russia released more than two dozen hostages, including women with young…

September 2, 2004 · CBC.ca
Tech threats: the new front in the War on Terror

There's little doubt nowadays that the 21st century is shaping up to be a very unstable era in human history. Non-state actors like al-Qaeda are stepping up…

September 2, 2004 · EDP24
Dereham firms help tackle computer crime

According to EDP24, the business community in a Norfolk town is helping police tackle computer crimes such as child pornography and online fraud. Detectives…

September 2, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Crime unit helps parents battle Internet predators

**This article reminds me of a [quote](http://www.watchright.com/testimonials.html) by Jimmy Doyle, “The Internet is just like the real world. There are bad…

September 2, 2004 · THE STAR
Attackers seize Russian school

BESLAN, Russia–Attackers wearing suicide-bomb belts stormed an elementary school, seizing hundreds of hostages, many of them children, on the first day back to…

September 2, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Cybercrime is not limited by boundaries

Computer crimes more and more assume transnational, organized and group character. Transnational character of computer crimes poses a certain social threat - a…

September 1, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer crime costs $1 billion to Microsoft

Microsoft Corp. are to spend $1bn more on the improvements of Windows OS protection from hackers, viruses and internet scammers. The website of the Independent…

September 1, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Former employee charged with computer hacking

A former employee of Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc., a large high-technology company headquartered in Gloucester, was charged August 23 in…

August 31, 2004 · The Journal News
Cybercrime crackdown

Two U.S. Justice Department operations have resulted in more than 150 arrests involving computer crimes that bilked an estimated 150,000 victims out of more…

August 31, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
International Scientific and Practical Cyber Crime Conference 2005

May 25-27, 2005, the Computer Crime Research Center (Zaporozhye, Ukraine) and the Transnational Crime and Corruption Center at the American University…

August 31, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Greatest Web-crime sweep

The Department of Justice announced yesterday that above 150 people had been arrested, charged or convicted in the last three months in a wide-ranging sweep of…

August 30, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
4th Annual conference of the European Society of Criminology

![](/media/pictures/amsterdam/P8260025.jpg)August 25-28, the 4th Annual conference of the European Society of Criminology was held in Amsterdam. Experts and…

August 30, 2004 · TechRepublic
FBI/CSI 2004 cybercrime report

For the past nine years the FBI and the Computer Security Institute have compiled cybercrime statistics. These statistics provide a good benchmark to compare…

August 30, 2004 · JoongAng Daily
Agency cyberattack training backfires

The National Intelligence Service, the nation's spy agency, has apologized to a civic group for using its name in a simulated "cyberattack" during last week's…

August 30, 2004 · THE JOURNAL NEWS
Cybercrime crackdown

Two U.S. Justice Department operations have resulted in more than 150 arrests involving computer crimes that bilked an estimated 150,000 victims out of more…

August 30, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Top copyright violators

International Federation of Fonographic Industry announced a regular report devoted to commercial piracy issues. Report claims that all taken measures to fight…

August 28, 2004 · PR Newswire
The first new program to Combat Child Pornography

ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) is expanding its initiative to combat child pornography through…