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April 3, 2008 · Kxly.com
Couple feels destroyed by child porn allegations

SPOKANE - Charges have yet to be filed yet in the case of a Spokane firefighter who was arrested two weeks ago for reportedly buying child pornography on the…

April 2, 2008 · Themercury.co.za/
Cyber-crime experts meet to hatch defence strategy

BRUSSELS: Cyber-crime experts from around the world will meet in Europe this week to discuss how governments should counter attacks aimed at crippling the…

April 2, 2008 · Hindu.com
Delhi Police to train officers on combating cyber crime

New Delhi (PTI): With cyber crime emerging as a new area of challenge, Delhi Police on Tuesday launched an exercise to train its officers on ways to detect…

April 2, 2008 · Stuff.co.nz/
Asperger's teen pleads guilty to cyber crime

A young Whitianga nerd with no formal computer training has confessed to cyber crime which has surprised international investigators with its sophistication.…

April 1, 2008 · Ibls.com
Internet law - fighting computer crime in Singapore

he Government of Singapore has devoted significant effort to combating computer crime. It passed legislation in 1993 and periodically amends this legislation…

April 1, 2008 · Nzherald.co.nz
Teen hacker admits cyber crime charges

A Whitianga teenager, allegedly at the centre of a cyber crime ring causing millions of dollars of damage, admitted six computer crime charges when he appeared…

March 31, 2008 · Iht.com
Europeans are poised to bolster Web shield

PARIS: Nearly a year after Estonia weathered an onslaught of cyberattacks, its name has become a rallying cry for countries pressing to strengthen global…

March 31, 2008 · Idm.net.au
Euro 2008 Website Becomes Latest Victim of Cybercrime

March 31, 2008: Sophos has identified malicious code on a number of compromised pages on the Euro 2008 ticketing website. Prophecies and projections are often…

March 31, 2008 · Health-care-it.advanceweb.com
Cybercrime Losses Decline for Third Consecutive Year

The Computer Security Institute (CSI) showed results of its ninth annual Computer Crime and Security Survey recently. The Computer Crime and Security Survey is…

March 30, 2008 · Chicagotribune.com/
St. Charles man arrested on charges of swapping child porn

Bail was set at $70,000 Friday for a St. Charles man arrested on charges of distributing child pornography, authorities said. St. Charles police say they…

March 29, 2008 · News.com.au
Two men arrested for child porn

SEXUAL crime detectives arrested two men from the Adelaide Hills on child pornography charges this afternoon. A 27-year-old man will appear before the Adelaide…

March 29, 2008 · Economictimes.indiatimes.com
Cyber crime: Govt plans early warning system

NEW DELHI: The Department of Information Technology (DIT) has finally woken up to the threat posed by malicious code (or virus) writers. This has been prompted…

March 28, 2008 · Eng.cnews.ru
Putin defies Convention on Cybercrime

Russia has refused to sign the European Convention on Cyber Crime. A corresponding resolution has been passed by the RF President Vladimir Putin. Russia did…

March 27, 2008 · Chicagotribune.com
Aurora man gets 20 years for child pornography

An Aurora man charged in 2006 with trading child pornography through an exclusive Internet chat room, was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison. Alan…

March 27, 2008 · Theinquirer.net
Cyber-terrorism becomes national priority

THE UK government has marked the internet as one of the three most serious threats the nation has to face from terrorists. The National Security Strategy,…

March 27, 2008 · Computing.co.uk
Cyber attack threat is ignored

Companies that form key elements of the UK’s critical infrastructure have criticised the government’s new national security strategy for failing to address the…

March 27, 2008 · Software.silicon.com
Gov't pledges to take e-crime seriously

The government has pledged to meet with law enforcers to forge new policies on tackling cyber crime. The announcement comes in the wake of an e-crime…

March 27, 2008 · Nzherald.co.nz
Simon Hendery: Cyber crime gets more spooky

As cyber-criminals become increasingly powerful and better organised, those working against them on the "good" side of IT security seem to be responding with a…

March 26, 2008 · Canada.com
Child-porn fighter to head cybercrime research centre

TORONTO - The former Toronto police officer renowned for his dogged pursuit of Internet pedophiles has been named director of a new cybercrime research centre…

March 26, 2008 · Newsinfo.inquirer.net
Computer crimes rising, say police

MANILA, Philippines -- Crimes committed via computer rose sharply last year, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said Sunday. A briefing paper on cyber crimes…

March 25, 2008 · Bizjournals.com
Suthers indicts 10 for mortgage fraud

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers on Monday announced indictments against 10 individuals who allegedly participated in a large mortgage-fraud operation.…

March 25, 2008 · Thelede.blogs.nytimes.com
Man vs. Computer: Crime-Fighting Edition

The sum of two news reports provide a rather unscientific counter to a Lede post in July on the unbeatable checkers program. In matters of video surveillance,…

March 25, 2008 · Ketknbc.com
UT Tyler launches new cyber crime fighting program

Cyber investigators say the number of cyber criminals harming people using the Internet continues to rise. It's why the University of Texas at Tyler unveiled a…

March 24, 2008 · Crainsdetroit.com
Computer forensics firms get boost from new evidence rules

It's not the Emmy Award-winning “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” but computer forensics holds a growing lure for law firms and human resource directors…

March 24, 2008 · Independent.co.uk
Cyber crime stays one step ahead

Computer crime is not only exploding in volume but is mutating faster than it can be contained, a new report to be published next week will warn. Some 2.5…

March 22, 2008 · Network.Nationalpost.com
Former police officer to lead cybercrime initiative

A former Toronto police officer renowned for his dogged pursuit of Internet pedophiles has been named director of a new cybercrime research centre focused on…

March 21, 2008 · Exchangemagazine.com
UOIT unveils plans for Centre for Cybercrime Research

OSHAWA, Ont. – The University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) took another significant step forward today in the global fight against cybercrime,…

March 21, 2008 · Technology.timesonline.co.uk
Government's plans for cyber-crime "half-baked"

The Government has severely underestimated the threat the country faces from cyber-crime and risks having its own networks breached by foreign spies if it…

March 20, 2008 · Corsicanadailysun.com
Mexia man jailed for child porn

James Lee Butler, 57, of Mexia, an unemployed man who posed as a 14-year-old boy on the social networking site MySpace.com, and sent child pornography to a boy…

March 19, 2008 · Uticaod.com
On the move: George Curtis

UTICA — George Curtis, associate professor of criminal justice, has been named acting executive director of Utica College’s Economic Crime Institute. ECI,…