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The United States is not in a cyber war and cyber war likely will never occur independently of a physical armed conflict, said James Andrew Lewis, director of…
With the coming of 3G, the next wave of cyber attacks will be on the mobile phone, said cyber security expert Vijay Mukhi, at a seminar on the penultimate day…
Security research firm Bkis earlier this month warned of a vicious virus targeting both Skype and Yahoo! Messenger. BKIS said in a blog post the attack…
The war against cyber crimes has been given a boost in Osun State . At the just concluded annual conference of Association of Vice-Chancellors of Nigeria…
Public prosecutors in Mumbai recently received training from the cyber crime investigation cell (CCIC) of the Mumbai police on cyber crime issues. Each of the…
Mumbai Advising parents how to protect their children from pornography will be one of the police’s major objectives during the Cyber Safe Mumbai drive from May…
The recent spike in unsolicited and mysterious telephone calls may be part of a new scheme to use telecommunications distributed denial of service (DDoS)…
Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Stephen Smith, today announced Australia’s intention to accede to the Council of Europe…
The cost of cybercrime to businesses has doubled to more than £10bn over the past two years, research to be released today will reveal. The survey by…
India has risen to the fifth spot in the world's cybercrime ranking for 2009 from the 11th spot in 2008 and now only lags behind the US, China, Brazil and…
Cybercrime is becoming an increasing security threat for a number of firms as methods are becoming 'more sophisticated', it has been claimed. Symantec, a…
A United Nations committee on international crime prevention is split on how to deal with cybercrime. Some countries want the existing European convention to…
The number of new malware samples detected year-on-year has grown from under 500 000 in 2005 to 16 000 000 in 2009. As such, the presence of cybercriminals has…
Yaman Akdeniz from the Bilgi University School of Law said that Turkey's future signature of the Council of Europe's 'Convention on Cybercrime' is not a…
The government of Vietnam has refused to acknowledge the 'groundless' accusations made by Google's Neel Mehta and McAfee Chief Technical Officer George Kurtz.…
Sophisticated cyber criminals are successfully finding new threat paths that are going undetected, a cyber criminologist said yesterday. Dr K Rama Subramaniam,…
An academic attack on the perpetrators of global cyber crime is being launched in Dundee. Abertay University is introducing the UK's first degree to tackle…
Police minister Nathi Mthethwa has called on the police to “lead a crusade” against online criminals targeting women and children. “Recent reports of children,…
Top cybercrime officials across the country are calling social networking sites Facebook, Twitter and MySpace their new best friends. According to an internal…
GUWAHATI: Cyber crime is the latest threat to India's security with those inimical to its interests hiring experts to spy on companies and vital networks, says…
Napalitano issued her formal challenge at a keynote address Wednesday at the RSA Conference on tech security here at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center.…
Robert Mueller, chief of Federal Bureau of Investigation addressed to RSA Conference of computer security professionals on Thursday in San Francisco, “The…
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- In an initiative to make it easier for companies to analyze and exchange data about security breaches and unite in…
According to Rich Baich, author of the survey's report, cybercrime menaces to organizations are increasing much faster than companies can tackle them, as per…
The best practices in developing legislation designed to address crimes involving computers and the Internet were discussed at a three-day regional conference…
Every businesses must ensure they have comprehensive security and backup plans for corporate and customer data due to the rising number of cyber security…
The author of the China-based programming code used in an alleged state-sponsored cyber attack on Google, and other US firms, has been identified as an IT…
According to recent data provided in the research by the security vendor Webroot 73% of the polled said Web-based threats are more difficult to manage than…
A small number of common software programming errors are responsible nearly every major type of cyber attack, from the recent intrusions at Google, to…
A coalition of anti-corruption organizations has partnered with the National Assembly to take the organising a cyber crimes and terrorism congress in Abuja in…