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June 1, 2004 · The Age
Fresh warning on IT crime

According to The Age, sniffing, snorting, phishing, phreaking, spamming. Get used to it. These are part of the new language of IT and the weapons of war used…

June 1, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
2003 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey

According to the 2003 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey, the risk of cyber attacks continues to be high. The report found 75 percent of the 530 firms…

June 1, 2004 · Bloomberg.com
Leader of Saudi Terrorist Attack Was Al-Qaeda Trained, BBC Says

June 1 (Bloomberg) -- The leader of a terrorist gang captured after a weekend attack in Saudi Arabia that killed 22 people was trained by al-Qaeda, the British…

May 31, 2004 · STUFF
Police closing in on net phishers

**Police believe they may be on to the gang responsible for online banking scams which ripped off New Zealand banks to the tune of $100,000 earlier this…

May 31, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Cyber blackmail or a terrorist act

Only when some years passed we can review without bias events that happened in Ukraine in January 2002. In order to get one million of UAH (about $185-190…

May 31, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
The FBI is increasing its effort to investigate spammers

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is increasing its effort to investigate spammers, largely in response to the new law. In an unusual arrangement, the Direct…

May 31, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Cyber-terrorism: North Koreans breaking into South's networks

South Korea's top military intelligence official claims that North Korea is operating an elite military unit specialising in breaking into South Korean…

May 30, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Cyber Crime Conference Summary

ZAPORIZHZHYA (CCRC) - May 26-28, an International Scientific Practical Conference "Problems of Counteracting to Computer Crime" took place in a conference hall…

May 29, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Spam is up two-thirds of all emails

One of the most spread computer crimes, offences committed using high technologies, is spam. It continues to flood the Internet with the increase in junk mail.…

May 28, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Insane hacker blackmailed Yandex

Regional court of Volgodonsk, Russia considers a hacker case -- an employee of Volgodonsk nuclear power plant blackmailed Yandex, the biggest Internet portal…

May 28, 2004 · Associated Press
Terror Alert: Officials defend choice to announce threat

**WASHINGTON** - The FBI and Justice Department insist that warning the public about a possibly devastating terror attack in this country was justified by…

May 27, 2004 · ABC Newc
FBI Releases Photos, Seeks Public Tips

Attorney General John Ashcroft today called the effort part of a "national neighborhood watch," hoping that someone, somewhere will recognize [one of the…

May 27, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer Crime Investigation Howto

One of the most important conditions to improve activity of operational structures is to strengthen informational relations between police divisions. In this…

May 26, 2004 · InfoWorld
Viruses nip Russia after the Cold War

*For all its disadvantages, the former Soviet Union had one hugely overlooked advantage: it kept hackers, crackers and virus writers confined inside the…

May 26, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Phishing - phish for some fish

Millions of Internet banks consumers are exposed to danger from constantly increasing scams related to fraudulently obtaining confidential information on a…

May 25, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
US Army Space and Missile Defense Command Hacked

Several computers of an army unit under the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command were hacked by an individual in a third country via a Korean firms'…

May 25, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer Crime Costs

Net criminals are attacking corporate and government networks more frequently, costing businesses an estimated $666 million in 2003, according to a survey of…

May 25, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computers with state secret information won't be on the Web

May 19, 2004, late in the evening news agencies announced that Vladimir Putin, the President of the Russian Federation, signed a decree "On measures to assure…

May 24, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russia: credit card frauds

Computer crimes are very latent owing to mechanism and ways of committing. According to the FBI 85-97% of all computer violations are not even opened. Experts…

May 22, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russian Internet will be protected from computer crimes

May 20, 2004, Vladimir Putin, the President of the Russian Federation, signed a decree "On measures to assure information security of the Russian Federation in…

May 21, 2004 · In The National Interest
What the United States Should Do in Ukraine

No political event in Europe this year is more important than Ukraine’s presidential elections next October. They amount to two clear-cut choices between…

May 21, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
A man who sold chid porn nabbed

A 20-year-old admitted downloading a stash of child pornography on to his computer before peddling it to other internet users. Nathan Weedall, of Hungerford…

May 20, 2004 · The Dartmouth Online
The USA at risk of cyberterrorism

Cyberterrorism expert Andy Cutts of Dartmouth's Institute for Security Technology Studies addressed the Dickey Center's War and Peace discussion panel Friday,…

May 20, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
The Fourth Annual Conference "Information Technologies and Security"

***June 22-26, 2004 the Fourth International Conference "Information Technologies and Security" will take place in Partenit (Partenit, Crimea, Ukraine).*** The…

May 20, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russia: Citybank clients scammed

Yesterday CityBank announced about its non-participation in mass distribution of letters through e-mail requesting to specify data on plastic cards. Client…

May 19, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Ukraine declares a war on piracy

ZAPORIZHZHYA (CCRC) - As the new Criminal Code of Ukraine became valid in 2001, law enforcement actively joined the fight against computer piracy. According to…

May 18, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Online job fraud

Online job sites like Monster.com, CareerBuilder and HotJobs have given employers a better way to find workers, but it turns out that crime rings are targeting…

May 18, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer crimes to block business activity

Crimes related to an unauthorized access to information systems communicated through the Internet or related to a break of physical exchange of information are…

May 17, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Ukraine fighting "pirates"

The US continue to demand from Ukraine to strengthen fight against production of pirated compact discs. Though intellectual property rights are still being…

May 15, 2004 · MSNBC News
Ukrainian Hacker Story

The piracy prevention department at software maker Autodesk Inc. spends a lot of time on auction Web sites, looking for illegal sales of its products. One day…