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July 9, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Spam on the rise

Today spam is about 70% of all emails in the world. These data are given by American company MessageLab involved in developing of program-filters. The volume…

July 8, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Sexual abuse online

According to Washington ProFile, every fifth under age user of the Internet runs the risk of online sexual abuse. These statistics are given in the report of…

July 7, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Great Britain: A new law on cybercrime is being elaborated

The threats facing Britain's Internet-enabled companies and consumers are so great that new laws are needed to fight the problem, and fix the mistakes made by…

July 6, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
San Jose Police Seek Help in Identifying Perp

Robert Martin Brown, a 50 year old Newark man, was arrested by the San Jose police on suspicion of sending sexually graphic material over the Internet to an…

July 5, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russian police rounds up an organized criminal group

July 28, 2004 officers of Russian cyber police (Department K of the Ministry of Internal Affairs) nipped in the bud activities of a big organized criminal…

July 5, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Spanish police: beware of lottery scam

Spanish police investigates a global scale lottery scam. It was organized by several criminal groups based most likely in Madrid, Spain. Scammers created…

July 4, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Enforcement is key to fighting cybercrime

The publication of a review of Britain's cybercrime laws by an influential group of MPs and peers this week has been welcomed by the IT industry. Broad…

July 3, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer crime laws need updating

An influential group of MPs has put forward suggested reforms to the UK cyber laws, to take account of 21st Century computer crime. The All-Party Internet…

July 2, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Supreme Court Says Porn Law Likely Violates First Amendment

**Source [Wall Street Journal](http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB108851802560750205,00.html) (subscription) and Associated Press ** WASHINGTON -- The Supreme…

July 1, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
FBI opens new computer crime lab

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The FBI opened a new lab Tuesday dedicated to detecting computer-related crimes and training federal, state and local police to catch…

June 30, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Last week's most famous Russian hacker

Dmitri Androsov, a student of Chelyabinsk, Russia, became the most famous Russian hacker of the last week due to 16 thousand of indecent phrases that he sent…

June 29, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
A Russian Hacker Stole $15 Thousand

A hacker of Leninogorsk, Russia managed to illegally withdraw 15,000 of American dollars from accounts of foreigners and co-citizens. All victims visited a…

June 29, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Authors of the last viruses are Russians

The authors of the last malicious action to spread computer viruses exploiting earlier unknown flaw in the Internet browser are people of Archangelsk, Russia.…

June 28, 2004 · AME Info
Middle East not immune to cyber-crime, security experts warn

According to AME Info, investment in fighting cyber-crime remains critically low, and a general ignorance of its consequences is leaving businesses across the…

June 28, 2004 · The Advertiser
E-mail comes under attack

*Spam, fraud, viruses assault Internet's 'killer' application...* USA Today For years, consumers and corporations raved about e-mail's potential. Now they're…

June 28, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
"Reporters Without Borders": Free Internet in Ukraine

An International legal organization "Reporters without borders" announced a report on obstacles to the free flow of information online -- "Internet Under…

June 26, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
US Congress against spyware

A bill that outlaws spy software that secretly monitors Web activities is advancing towards a vote by the US House of Representatives A congressional panel…

June 25, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Spam again

US police officers arrested an AOL employee and charged him with conspiracy in a plot to flood AOL subscribers with spam. Federal prosecutors say that Jason…

June 24, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Child Pornography on the Internet--What to do?

If you are a parent of a child between the ages of 10-17 it is likely that your child is receiving unsolicited pornographic images. These are typically sent by…

June 23, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Al Qaida websites blocked

Several Internet websites of the terrorist network "Al Qaida" are blocked after liquidation of their commander Al Mugrin and his three accomplices, Saudi…

June 22, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Internet crimes in Armenia

Most of computer crimes in the banking sphere of Armenia are committed through the Internet, Olga Safaryan, legal expert of "Internews" told during seminar…

June 21, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Phishing spreading

Phishing is a dangerous kind of internet-fraud, theft of personal data, credit card numbers, passwords, etc. Even illegal operations using PIN codes, as a…

June 19, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Police nabs a scammer

Officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (the SSU) detained a scammer for allegedly squeezing money out of employees of Ukrainian banks. It was a resident…

June 18, 2004 · baltimoresun.com
Another Technical Glitch Slows Yahoo!

Some Yahoo! Inc. Web sites and services stumbled for the second time in less than a week Thursday as the Internet giant worked to resolve a hardware problem.…

June 18, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Piracy increases

A World Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has finished its work in Morocco. The participants certified: a world market of counterfeit and…

June 17, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russian hackers attacked Akamai servers

Websites of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others were taken out by a DDoS attack for 2 hours till these companies relocated their DNS records to their own…

June 16, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Hackers hacked...a printing-house

Moscow competitors are suspected of allegedly hacking a computer system of "Ural worker" printing house. The damage is estimated to be tens of thousands of…

June 16, 2004 · Watch Right
The War on Child Pornography? Who are the Victims?

***The sexual victimization of children is overwhelming in magnitude, yet largely unrecognized and underreported. Peter Banks, National Center for Missing and…

June 16, 2004 · NBC4.tv
Teen Sentenced In Bank, Internet Fraud Schemes

According to NBC4.tv, a 19-year-old Orange County teenager was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison Monday and ordered to pay $20,000 in restitution in…

June 16, 2004 · FrontPage magazine.com
A Web of Terror

According to FrontPage magazine.com - Web sites featuring videos of the beheading of Americans or captives pleading for their lives have become part of an…