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Cherokee County prosecutors charged a local man Tuesday with two counts of possession of juvenile pornography and two counts of lewd molestation. Michael Ray…
Gary McKinnon, the British hacker who is still fighting against extradition to the US despite the European Court of Human Rights ruling he should go, has…
As spam e-mail gets more sophisticated, including spam posing as coming from familiar e-mail addresses, or even your own, it’s increasingly difficult for…
A Hong Kong businessman has recently pleaded guilty for his part in dispatching tens of millions of spam messages to pump up the prices of Chinese stocks…
The newly notorious Twitter hacker didn't take long to show himself. An 18-year-old cyberpunk who goes by the alias GMZ used password-guessing software to gain…
Cyber crimes present an enigma for most city police officials. State government had earmarked a specialised cyber crimes cell and allotted it to city crime…
Plans are under way to revive the Cyber Crime Unit within the police force despite complaints that specialised crime-fighting squads have lately become…
Social-networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace are being targeted so often by cyber-crooks and other mischief-makers that half of the…
In thinking about what an economically bleak 2009 will mean for the Internet, I kept coming back to something Chris Anderson wrote a few months ago, back…
That's what one hapless Canadian small-business owner discovered after a hacker broke into his company's voice-mail system and placed hundreds of calls to the…
BEIJING, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- Computer hackers could meet tough penalties under a draft amendment of the criminal law being debated by China's top legislature.…
December 16, 2008 (CSO) The 2009 Security Mega Trends Survey was conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Lumension Security Inc. to better understand…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yes, guys, those spam e-mails for Viagra or baldness cream just might be directed to you personally. So, too, are many of the other crafty…
As the feds increase the amount of its business conducted online (ostensibly to save on the costs of paper and even help the environment), government…
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Armies of hijacked computers are flooding the world with spam as hackers devise slicker ways to take over unwitting people's machines,…
Washington (AHN) - Officials said massive global anti-child pornographers were dispersed in several countries and more than 170 people were arrested, including…
We all know that spammers will do what ever it takes to find a way to send their advertisements and scams to potential victims. Spammers are circumventing…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama should create a new White House office to protect cyberspace from hackers, thieves and foreign agents,…
A Nashville-area man has been sentenced to more than 19 years in prison on child pornography charges. Richard Steven Brown, 49, of Hermitage was sentenced by…
Owen Thor Walker told TV3's 60 Minutes programme he would never again hack illegally. Walker, 19, who this year was discharged without conviction after…
Last June, a new law gave solicitors six months to ask prospective clients if they wanted to receive unsolicited messages. The deadline expired Monday. The…
With cyber Monday comes an FBI warning against spam containing malware and phishing attempts that appear to be greeting cards and ads for shopping bargains.…
SAN FRANCISCO — Monday will be one of the biggest online shopping days of the year, and also one of the most treacherous. On Cyber Monday, the first Monday…
Among the bewildering amount of counselling I've received from readers anxious to lift the pall of depression that hangs over my golf comes a piece of…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala (AP) - A Gadsden man awaits sentencing after a federal jury convicted him for producing child pornography. Alice Martin, the US Attorney for…
Facebook won a US$873 million judgment in a case against a spammer in one of the largest awards yet for a suit filed under the CAN-SPAM Act. The suit charged…
The criminal market online for buying and selling stolen credit cards, pirated software and information about financial accounts is thriving, according to a…
BOSTON - A teenage computer hacker from Massachusetts has pleaded guilty to a variety of charges connected with his damaging activities. Federal prosecutors…
The Massachusetts-based computer hacker operating under the pseudonym “Dshocker” pled guilty Tuesday to “computer intrusion, interstate threats and wire fraud”…
Last week, there was a lot of attention over the shutdown of McColo, a hosting company that was apparently used by a huge number of spammers to control some of…