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May 15, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
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Ukrainian magazine "Power, People, Law" interviewed the [***CCRC director Dr. Vladimir Golubev***](http://www.crime-research.org/). **What is the background…

May 14, 2004 · Yahoo!News
Online Co. Shuts Down Site With Beheading

*According to Associated Press, The al-Qaida-linked Web site that first posted a video of American civilian Nicholas Berg's beheading was shut down Thursday by…

May 14, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russian hackers nabbed in Spain

May 13, Spanish police arrested three Russians in Barcelona on suspicion of forming a transnational criminal group. This group was involved in withdrawing more…

May 14, 2004 · Opinion Editorials
Resist Using Nick Berg as a Prop

They didn't just kill him. They posed him, filmed him, decapitated him and uploaded the footage knowing we'd all see it within twenty-four hours. They sawed…

May 14, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
7 years for doubtful photo business on the Net

E-library of 100 000 child porn photos was seized from the 55-year-old man, including images where he had sex with sleeping 10-year-old daughter. 55-year-old…

May 13, 2004 · eTaiwanNews.com
Al-Qaida terror chief beheads American civilian on videotape

*As eTaiwanNews.com informs, a group of men stand over a bound man, who identified himself as Nick Berg, a U. S contrsctor whose body was found in Baghdad on…

May 13, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Ukraine: new bill to regulate unauthorized access to information

ZAPORIZHZHYA (CCRC) - Ukrainian Parliament accepted a law on fines for unauthorized access to computer information related to restricted or being owned by the…

May 12, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Convention on Cybercrime wins support in Ukraine

Science and Education Committee of Ukraine considered a people's deputies' legislative initiative on an amendment to the Criminal and the Criminal Procedural…

May 11, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
E-Legal: Fighting Internet Crime

***According to most experts, today Internet Crimes poses greater cyber security threat than 5 years ago. In spite of law enforcement and special services…

May 10, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Who hacks? Who cracks?

All computer criminals can be divided into the following separate groups by purposes and spheres of their activities: 1. Hackers are users of computer systems…

May 8, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russia: Computer crimes statistics

ZAPOROZHYE (CCRC) - Increase in crimes in the sphere of computer information is a more quick process than computerization in Russia. Criminals are not afraid…

May 7, 2004 · BBC News
Experts divided on Sasser future

**According to BBC News, global computer experts are divided on whether the Sasser worm will now fade away, or become yet more of a threat.** Some believe the…

May 7, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Who are these cyber criminals?

Studies conducted, in particular, in Australia, Canada, the US, Germany helped to divide computer criminals into three main categories by age: - 11-15 years…

May 6, 2004 · TheMoscowTimes.com
Sasser Computer Worm on the Loose

According to TheMoscowTimes, the Sasser worm slipped into tens of thousands of computers around the world over the holiday weekend, slowing down Internet…

May 6, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
How to avoid Internet fraud

Now Internet fraud amounts hundreds of intricate and dangerous cases, new appropriate laws, methods and techniques are actively developed. But it is difficult…

May 5, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
What is hacking?

Hacking is unauthorized use of computer and network resources. (The term "hacker" originally meant a very gifted programmer. In recent years though, with…

May 4, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Fighting Child Pornography

In time of intensive global computerization humanity faced plenty of challenges, which have quickly turned into real threats to economic and social well-being.…

May 4, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer Crime Classification

According to Economic Crime Unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine official statistics for 4 months of 2001 year, 7 crimes, in 2002 – 25, for 6…

May 3, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
FraudWatch warns of the escalation of Internet fraud

As PR Web informs, FraudWatch International warns Internet consumers of the escalation of Lottery scams circulating via email. These scams involve advance fee…

May 3, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
The most secured way to fight cyber crime

April 22, a research held by GfK-USM company by request of Coalition for Intellectual Property Rights (world public authority devoted to strengthen copyrights)…

May 1, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Do-it-yourself counterfeit production exposed

ZAPOROZHYE (CCRC) - Employees of State Tax Police in Zaporozhye region revealed illegal production of accessories for marking audio and video production. A…

April 30, 2004 · Daily Times
OP-ED: Terrorism and the Internet

***According to Daily Times, while the danger cyber-terrorism poses to the Internet is frequently debated, surprisingly little is known about the threat posed…

April 30, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Internet and security

New opportunities of the Internet transformed many legal forms of activity, having cut down terms, simplified procedures of arranging deals and reduced…

April 29, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Interview with a carder

**H:** What is carding and what is happening now on the stage? Who are these people? **S:** "A carder is a man who produces illegal operations with credit…

April 29, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Internet Fraud - The E-Bay Community Model

The Internet revolution and advances in information and communication technology have triggered a massive influx of e-commerce transactions, which represent…

April 29, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Holograms to help security

A new direction in gathering evidence for ascertaining guilt of a person that committed computer crime is development of methods to apply holographic systems…

April 28, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Hack + Activism = Hacktivism

A term "hacktivism" originated from the combination of two words "hack" and "activism" and is used to mean a new phenomenon of social protest that is a…

April 27, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
U.S. Considering Ratifying Cybercrime Treaty

The Register writes [***"US defends cybercrime treaty"](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/24/us_defends_cybercrime_treaty/)***. The U.S. has already signed…

April 26, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Ukraine: hackers school

ZAPOROZHYE (CCRC) - Law enforcement officers often complain that former USSR region is an incubator of talented and usually unemployed geniuses that may threat…

April 25, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Moscow: hacker's soft is sold in the street

ZAPOROZHYE (CCRC) – Moscow: Officers of the Department on Fighting Economic Crimes of the Moscow Regional Police Department managed to expose a 22-year-old…