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April 24, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Microsoft joins the fight against Internet paedophilia

***Microsoft and The International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children have joined forces to battle the Internet's child pornography problem, and have…

April 24, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Beware: traps on the Net

No one thought about security issues till the appearance of the first online store. Unprotected protocols and potentially vulnerable mechanisms of…

April 23, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Child porn remains on the Internet

ZAPOROZHYE (CCRC) - Up to 75% of all child porn production are spread over the Internet. According to law enforcement data, about 90% of international…

April 22, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Ukrainian law enforcement to fight high tech crimes

ZAPOROZHYE (CCRC) - According to the Order #429 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine from May 31, 2001, units to fight crimes in the sphere of…

April 21, 2004 · vnunet.com
Phishers using smarter hooks

Fraud attempts grow with Trojans, keystroke loggers and stolen screenshots Groups attempting to trick internet users into revealing bank account details and…

April 21, 2004 · BBC newsround
Passwords revealed by sweet deal

**BBC informs that more than 70% of people would reveal their computer password in exchange for a bar of chocolate, a survey has found. ** It also showed that…

April 21, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Internet terrorism: a new menace of the 21 century

As countries develop they become dependent on high technologies, including computers that are more and more involved in control of critical national…

April 20, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Ukraine: an ordered through the Internet murder was prevented

ZAPOROZHYE (CCRC) - Officers of the SSU (Security Service of Ukraine) prevented an ordered through Internet murder in Dnepropetrovsk region, Ukraine. This…

April 19, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Internet crimes and security

The cyberspace boom has done much to foster the alarming increase in organised crime. This is one of the conclusions of the report on economic crime and…

April 18, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
What is cyber-terrorism?

***What is "cyber-terrorism"? Cyber-terrorism is the same terrorism, which uses computers and electronic networks for terrorist attacks.*** As a criminal legal…

April 17, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Victims of cyber crime

Companies are the main victims of cyber crimes. But neither state authorities, nor individuals are insured against cyber criminals. A survey, what was carried…

April 16, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Spammer business on the rise

Spam-business grows, its technical capabilities change, spammers have more and more servers, more money to hire programmers and to pay for hosting. The number…

April 15, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer crime classification

Experts consider that computer crimes today represent more serious danger for our country than 5 years ago. According to Economic Crime Unit of the Ministry of…

April 15, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Phishing Scams: Statistics from mi2gIntelligence Unit

Recently many banks all over the world encountered variety of frauds and scams committed by hackers, swinlders and inside bank officials. But the most spread…

April 14, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russia: all to fight cyber terrorism!

ZAPOROZHYE (CCRC) - Nowadays, cyberterrorism may cause significantly more damage than any usual explosive device, Dmitri Frolov, representative of the…

April 14, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Terrorism and high technologies

Last week French police managed to arrest a certain Mustafa Baachi, high tech expert of Al-Qaeda who allegedly committed numerous e-frauds and organized of…

April 13, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Ukraine: Legal Control of Use of Internet Technologies

In order to define an optimum direction of legal control in the Internet, a number of countries carry out specific studies, create centers and public…

April 13, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Card frauds: geography of crimes

More than 40% of crimes related to bank cards frauds are committed by citizens of former Yugoslavia, Nigeria, Romania, Pakistan and Indonesia. Online deals…

April 12, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Cyber Terrorism : The new kind of Terrorism

***Cyber Terrorism:*** Computers and the internet are becoming an essential part of our daily life. They are being used by individuals and societies to make…

April 12, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
International Cybercrime Conference 2004

ZAPOROZHYE (CCRC) - May 26-28, 2004, Computer Crime Research Center, World Anticriminal Antiterrorist Forum (WAAF), Zaporozhye State University, with…

April 10, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russia: Insult in the Internet

In Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia, a first criminal proceeding was initiated against a senior pupil of a local school for he allegedly insulted his schoolmistress…

April 9, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Ukraine: a reliable partner in fighting cyberterrorism and money laundering

Ukraine is a reliable partner in fighting terrorism, including cyberterrorism, and money laundering, said representatives of the United States Treasury…

April 8, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Maxim Kovalchuk will be out on bail

In the San-Jose circuit court, on a case of Ukrainian [Maxim Kovalchuk-Vysochanski](http://www.crime-research.org/news/06.04.2004/175) accused of committing…

April 7, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
CCRC competition summary

ZAPOROZHYE, Ukraine (CCRC) - Computer Crime Research Center and the Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) at the American University, Washington,…

April 7, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
$2M from nothing

At a minimum, 27,000 of site owners may have been victims of the domain scam invented by an enterprising businessman Darren Morgenstern. Each of them paid $70…

April 6, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Ukrainian hacker Maxim Kovalchuk appeared in the court

ZAPOROZHYE, Ukraine (CCRC) - April 5, citizen of Ukraine, Maxim Kovalchuck appeared in regional court of San-Jose, California, the USA. As [CCRC informed…

April 5, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
The price for security

Specialists consider computer crimes cost Europe's small firms about 22 billionn euros a year (£14.7 billion) to clean up and recover from. Research by Network…

April 3, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer & Internet Crime 2004

The Metropolitan Police is encouraging companies to come forward and share intelligence to help in fighting against cyber-crime. Having his say at the Computer…

April 3, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Ukrainian system of criminal investigation in the action

March 26, the Verkhovna Rada registered a draft #4042-1 "On Monitoring of Telecommunications". Valeri Lebedinskiy, people's deputy, member of the Committee of…

April 2, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer crimes in Ukraine

According to data provided by the IT Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the ratio of computer crimes to all crimes in IT sphere makes…