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March 14, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Scams and cybercrime

The St. Petersburg Times informed that Florida has a colorful history with scams, from selling swampland to unsuspecting tourists to boiler room phone schemes.…

March 13, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russia: computer crimes statistics

For the first time computer crimes appeared in Russia in 1991 when $ 125,5 thousand were stolen from USSR Vnesheconombank. All world learnt about Levin and the…

March 12, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer crime and cyber terrorism

[Computer Crime Research Center](http://www.crime-research.org/) published a new book "Computer Crime and Cyber Terrorism". It is a collection of scientific…

March 12, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Hackers and web stores

E-commerce is the cause of the record growth of crimes, VeriSign reports. Turnovers of web stores increase rapidly but computer crimes grow faster. VeriSign…

March 11, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Spam: regular users' perspective

In spite of technical prevention of spam flows and new laws on against spam, situation does not improve. According to different forecasts, by midst of 2004…

March 11, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Hacker versus auditor

Vladivostok, Russia - Officers of Vladivostok Regional Police Office, Department "K" detained a hacker, who attempted to sell information stolen from auditing…

March 10, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer crime: information for consideration

Computer Crime Research Center published an analytic report on criminal activity in the Internet. Statistics shows increasing number of hack attempts and…

March 9, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Worms will be $245 million worth for ISP in the USA

Experts of Sandvine company that is engaged in P2P (point-to-point) networks maintenance consider that expenses of American Internet service providers (ISP) on…

March 9, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
How much do computer viruses cost?

Vladivostok, Russia: One pupil tried to trade computer viruses through the Internet. Officer of Department "K" on fighting crimes in high tech field was his…

March 9, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Internet fraud: volumes are increasing

According to certain data, there are 30 kinds of illegal operations with cards in the Internet. The most spread are payment using non-existing cards, creating…

March 8, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Cyber terrorism: myth or reality?

Some sceptics think that "cyberterrorism" is fiction. They think it is necessary in Ukraine or Russia for an "article in the budget", money that can be…

March 7, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer Crime & Organised Crime

The [**mi2g**](http://www.mi2g.com) informed Thursday that correlation between organised crime, politically and ideologically motivated hacker attacks as well…

March 6, 2004 · Pasadenastarnews.com
Sniffing out computer crime

PASADENA -- Thinking of sneaking a peek at a pornographic Web site from your company's computers? Or sending a trade secret to the competition? Better think…

March 6, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
50% of porn sites come from former USSR

Experts state that porn comes to the Internet mainly from CIS countries (former UUSR countries). It is about 50% of all porn websites. ECPAT International, an…

March 6, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Novarg/MyDooM: total damage increases

Economic losses in January 2004 are estimated to be in the range of $2,3 to $2,9 billion from all attacks of malware and numerous software vulnerabilities,…

March 5, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Internet: hacker war

Expert virus researchers at Sophos have declared that a state of war exists between the creators of the MyDoom, Netsky and Bagle worms, both of which have…

March 5, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Arrested for distributing child porn over the Internet

A 41-year-old El Dorado Hills man was arrested on distribution of child pornography charges after policemen seized video from his home showing he engaged in…

March 4, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Internet is a target for terrorists

International terrorist groups tied with Islamic fundamentalists are preparing unprecedented attack on the Internet. Consequences of this attack can be…

March 4, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Two Russian students arrested for threatening CIA

Students were charged with "Deliberately False Report of an Act of Terrorism" (Article 207 of the Criminal Code of Russia). As reported, night February 26-27…

March 4, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Ukrainian pirates arrested

Officers of Poltava regional Department of the Security Service of Ukraine and State Department of Intellectual Property seized the most large-scale…

March 4, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Ukrainian government to shift state institutions to legal software

Ukrainian government continues to appropriate measures on shifting executive power bodies to legal software, Vladimir Dmitrishin, Deputy Chairman of the State…

March 3, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Hacker attacks on Presidential elections

Information security assurance during voting is one of the most critical tasks while conducting elections of President of the Russian Federation, the head of…

March 3, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
UIA will prevent offence in the Internet

Administration of Ukrainian Internet Association (UIA) confirmed staff of the Committee on issues of security and preventing offences in information systems.…

March 3, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
More than 100 000 websites with child porn

Child porn is a critical problem nowadays. Rates of its growth in the Internet arouse our anxiety. What are we to do with it? You only access the Internet and…

March 2, 2004 · COMPUTERWORLD
Letter from the eastern front

When it comes to laying the blame for malicious code, viruses, scams and spam, IT security vendors love to point the accusatory finger to what used to be known…

March 2, 2004 · CNN.com
Child sex abuse back in focus

**(CNN) -- The "trial of the century" of four people in Belgium on child kidnapping, abuse and murder charges has once again focused attention on child sex…

March 2, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Experts forecast increase in information security market

Analysis of different sources allows to forecast significant increase in future displays of cyber criminality. For last 12 months 82% of American companies…

March 2, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
New fraud in the Internet

Be watchful receiving email from legal Internet companies with requests to provide personal and financial information. Never give your credit card numbers,…

March 2, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Level of computer piracy in Ukraine goes down

Nowadays experts observe a stable downtrend of computer piracy in Ukrainian software market. Software experts came to such conclusion during Discussion of…

March 1, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
10 000 child porn photos = 50 years of jail

Norman McDonald a 49 year old from Pennsylvania, USA pleaded guilty to having sex with his 3-year old Ukrainian stepdaughter It began after his Fiancee moved…