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October 28, 2008 · bcs.org
'Nine out of ten' emails are spam

More than nine per cent of all emails which arrived in companies' inboxes in the third quarter of 2008 were legitimate, according to research. The claim comes…

October 27, 2008 · Computer Crime Research Center
Recent Stock Market Decline Causes Economic Cybercrime to Hit All Time High, According to PandaLabs

GLENDALE, Calif., Oct 22, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- PandaLabs, Panda Security's malware analysis and detection laboratory, today issued a security alert…

October 27, 2008 · Computer Crime Research Center
US authorities shutter worldwide spam operation

Authorities said Tuesday they have shut down one of the largest spam operations in the world, a vast network involving countries from New Zealand to China and…

October 26, 2008 · Computer Crime Research Center
Microsoft Combats Cybercrime in Nigeria

Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN) and Microsoft have partnered to educate the country's youth on cybercrime and to provide opportunities for them to use their…

October 24, 2008 · blog.wired.com
Russian Coder: I Hacked Georgia's Sites in Cyberwar

Government and independent investigators are still trying to figure out who, exactly, hit Georgia's websites during its August war with Russia. Now, one of the…

October 22, 2008 · Allheadlinenews.com
Spain's Battle Against Online Child Pornography Yields 121 Suspects

Madrid, Spain (AHN) - Spain's largest operation against online child pornography yielded a large catch of 121 people. Aside from the arrests, Spanish police…

October 22, 2008 · wptv.com
Second arrest made in child porn case

STUART, FL, -- A second arrest has been made in a child pornography case. Federal authorities have arrested Georgia resident Laura Culver, W/F, 08/26/55.…

October 21, 2008 · vnunet.com
Sarkozy falls prey to bank hacker

French President Nichols Sarkozy was the victim of an internet bank attack, according to government officials. The attacks occurred in September when Sarkozy's…

October 21, 2008 · internetnews.com
Hacker Hits French President's Bank Account

In a sign that cybercrime can reach even heads of state, French police are scrambling to investigate the hacking of French president Nicolas Sarkozy's personal…

October 21, 2008 · clickpress.com
Phone Spam Filter Reaches The 1 Million Mark

Phone Spam Filter, the best website in the United States for finding telemarketers and phone solicitors, announced today that it has successfully processed…

October 21, 2008 · COMPUTERWORLD
Hackers renew airline-ticket scam spam

In a reprise of a summer tactic, hackers are trying to trick people into infecting their PCs with malware by sending them e-mail that poses as bogus…

October 17, 2008 · Computer Crime Research Center
Spam Problem to be Solved Once and For All by Patent Pending Methodology From CapeMax

BERLIN, Conn., Oct 16, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- CapeMax, LLC proposes to solve the global spam problem once and for all by employing a new patent…

October 16, 2008 · vista.blorge.com
Microsoft predicts hacker behaviour

Microsoft has released its monthly Windows security update, this time with 11 bulletins fixing 20 problems. It’s the first bulletin to rank problems both for…

October 16, 2008 · visayandailystar.com
Negros doc warns vs. email hackers

Friends of a Negrense doctor were nearly victimized by a hacker who gained access to her email address and sent messages saying she had been mugged in London…

October 16, 2008 · theinquirer.net
Contempt for hacker's autism defence

PEOPLE LIKE Pentagon Hacker Gary McKinnon often discover they have Asperger's Syndrome late in life. The UK government is more concerned that he discovered it…

October 15, 2008 · infotech.indiatimes.com
Smartphones: Hacker's next target?

SAN FRANCISCO: Some of the most vicious Internet predators are hackers who infect thousands of PCs with special viruses and lash the machines together into…

October 14, 2008 · cbc.ca
Ex-hacker 'Mafiaboy' tells all in memoir

A former hacker, who temporarily shut down several major websites and led the RCMP and the FBI on a manhunt when he was 15, has written a tell-all memoir about…

October 14, 2008 · thanhniennews.com
Student hacker arrested

Investigators say a high school student from the central province of Quang Nam has been arrested for allegedly hacking into local websites earlier this month.…

October 13, 2008 · Computer Crime Research Center
'Spam attack' halts Virgin e-mail

Tens of thousands of Virgin customers have spent four days cut off from, or with little access to, their e-mail accounts after a suspected spam attack. The…

October 10, 2008 · Afp.google.com
Hackers using fake YouTube pages to attack computers

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Computer security specialists warn that hackers are using fake YouTube pages to trick people into opening their machines to diabolical…

October 10, 2008 · Ctv.ca
Canadian teen hacker reveals secrets in tell-all book

A Canadian computer whiz who hacked into some of the world's most prominent websites when he was just 15 years old revealed in a new tell-all book that he was…

October 10, 2008 · itworld.com
40 Trillion Spam E-mails This Year

Ferris Research, the mail and messaging specific research group, made plenty of noise not long ago when they said there will be 40 trillion (with a T) spam…

October 10, 2008 · Vnunet.com
IronPort bolsters spam protection

IronPort Systems has unveiled a range of hardware platforms designed to bolster its enterprise and carrier-grade email security systems. The security firm,…

October 8, 2008 · ABC.net.au
NT govt hacker acted from spite, court told

Last May, the man allegedly hacked into the Territory government's computer network and systematically shut parts of it down. The Royal Darwin Hospital,…

October 8, 2008 · pcadvisor.co.uk
British hacker faces 15 years in prison

A British hacker faces 15 years in prison after launching a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against two US companies. Lee Graham Walker and German Axel Gembe…

October 8, 2008 · security.itproportal.com
Israeli super-hacker accused of masterminding $1.8m fraud

Israeli hacked - known as The Analyzer - who is being extradited from Canada by the US government for his alleged involvement in a $1.8 million worldwide…

October 7, 2008 · english.chosun.com
Cyber Slander Law Stirs Public Sentiment

Controversy has flared up over Grand National Party's attempt to pass a law on online slander and real-name use on the Internet, stoked by the suicide of a…

October 7, 2008 · latimesblogs.latimes.com
Cyber-bullying common

Many teenagers say they are the victims of online bullying, but few tell their parents or other adults, according to a study by UCLA researchers. Moreover,…

October 7, 2008 · news.cnet.com
Study: Uptick in spam-sending zombie PCs in September

Compromised computers that send spam as part of their regular botnet activity increased dramatically in September, according to a Symantec study (PDF) released…

October 7, 2008 · PCworld.com
Put an End to Cell Phone Spam

It's a sad fact that most of us are exposed to an endless flood of unsolicited messages from purported international dignitaries, dubious pharmaceutical…