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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…
At about 4:30 p.m. Eastern time last Tuesday, the volume of junk e-mail arriving at inboxes around the world suddenly plummeted by about 65 percent. Confronted…
Government officials in the US suspect that a series of attacks on the US Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain's campaign computer networks…
Jurors in a cyber-hoax trial will hear evidence a Missouri woman's messages on MySpace provoked the suicide of a 13-year-old neighbor, a judge in Los Angeles…
Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates' 2004 proclamation that the spam problem would be solved within two years has proved a bitter joke, with unsolicited…
Researchers at UCSD have determined the return on investment for spam generated by the Storm botnet. While the per-message response rate is astonishingly low,…
In Japan, where crime is generally very low, computer crime appears to be booming. The Japanese Ministry of Justice have released figures showing that arrests…
A survey of 70 of the world's biggest internet companies found growing concern over a range of new threats from malicious hackers, many of them rival criminal…
New administration will continue to tap into high-tech tools. If Obama gets his way, all Americans will have broadband Internet access, whether they live in…
The spread of CAPTCHA-breaking tools has resulted in a sudden surge in the use of blogging sites such as Google's Blogspot to host spam adverts, security…
The iPhone is apparently still a big target for would-be malicious hackers. With the iPhone 3G now available around the world, and Apple now the second largest…
Security research firm Sophos on Wednesday discovered attackers have launched their own presidential campaign. Attempting to exploit President-elect Barack…
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari promulgated the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance on Thursday, making cyber-terrorism punishable with death or…
Microsoft's six-year effort to improve computer security is paying dividends, according to a report the company plans to release today, but human errors, such…
The spread of CAPTCHA-breaking tools has resulted in a sudden surge in the use of blogging sites such as Google's Blogspot to host spam adverts, security…
There are new details about a virus that could potentially disable Apple gadgets. A hacker who failed to get a job a Apple has generated a lot of Internet buzz…
The amount of spam containing dangerous attachments designed to infect PCs with malicious viruses increased by eight times between July and September this…
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct 30, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The NO on Prop 8 Web site was hit by a massive cyber invasion called a distributed denial of…
The Senate yesterday referred a Bill for an Act to outlaw perpetration of financial crimes through such electronic devices as mobile phones, internet and the…
Cell-phone spam still trails computer spam, with the typical cell-phone user receiving at most a few spam text messages per year rather than the thousands that…