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SAN JOSE, CALIF.: Somewhere in St. Petersburg, Russia's second biggest city, a tiny startup has struck Internet gold. Its dozen-odd employees are barely old…
A New Hampshire business says a hacker rang up a $8,700 phone bill for one call to Saudia Arabia. Michael Bednaz, owner of Hexa Interactive Communications,…
This year has been a doozy for victims of identity theft. But next year the threat is likely to be even worse. Consumers should expect identity thieves to get…
Governments worldwide are preparing for an increase in attacks on crucial services, writes Conrad Walters. First the mobile fails. Intermittent black spots are…
Ah, for the good old days when scams were simpler and easier to recognize - a money drop here, an out-of-town asphalt truck there... Then the Internet comes…
Kelly Jackson Higgins posted an interesting and unsettling story at Dark Reading that focuses on back doors which, as the name implies, are programs that…
Are you like many others, with a Google Toolbar added on to your browser? If so, you’d better be careful about adding buttons to it. According to a story on…
Lorella Praeli will never forget the nasty instant messages that kept popping up on her home computer when she was a middle school student in New Milford. The…
While cyber crimes are on the rise in India, there is a shortage of trained professionals to combat them. Globally, 6,70,000 complaints have been registered…
With the economy in the dumps, online discounts may lead people away from the malls and onto the internet, but buyers beware. In June, two men from Maywood and…
New research shows that 10% of internet users in the UK have replied to 'lottery scam' emails, and that 13% have clicked on links contained in them. The news…
Arbor’s Security and Engineering Response Team (ASERT) put together their predictions for hack attacks for 2008 and at the top of the list is the iPhone. The…
The worst type of virus is the one you don’t know is there. You’re confused and left wondering what the source of infection is. Without knowing, you can’t…
Fear of fraud is the factor which puts most over-50s off going online, according to a survey. Here are some facts about internet crime. * One in four users of…
Click Forensics rolled out a filter for publishers to help stomp out click fraud today. The product, Click Forensics for Publishers, launched with a couple key…
The HMRC child benefit data loss debacle has reinvigorated calls to establish a central police unit to tackle cybercrime. Business leaders are expressing…
The bank workers union, Finsec, has called on all banks to follow Westpac and BNZ's lead in providing protection to customers hit by losses as a result of…
Businesses are becoming increasingly frustrated at having no centralised organisation to which they can report instances of computer crime, and are calling on…
Shoppers in the U.S. will spend a whopping $25 billion on gift cards during this holiday season, according to the Better Business Bureau. That's an increase of…
12-13 December be held Seminar - Cybercrime - New threats in cyber space RACVIAC- Centre for Security Cooperation and the United Nations Interregional Crime…
"Over the years, the criminal elements, the ones who are making money, making millions out of all this online crime, are just getting stronger and stronger. I…
If you're doing your Christmas shopping online, be warned that cybercriminals are seeking to cash in on the estimated £5bn being spent on the web in the UK…
While doing research on a suspicious neighbor, Ben Sayre went to a website that seemed fishy and later noticed extra buttons showing up on his computer screen.…
Various types of online threats such as spyware are not widely understood by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). According to research by Get Safe…
Internet chatroom romantics beware: your next chat may be with a clinical computer, not a passionate person, trying to win your personal data and not your…
Web site domain name registrars are increasingly finding themselves at the forefront of the never-ending slog against online con artists and phishers. But…
Two poets, a newspaper columnist, and a cybercrime expert will be the featured authors at a Writers' Night at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14, at the York Public…
This week, just in time for anyone thinking of looking online for an instant, “guaranteed” loan for Christmas shopping, the Better Business Bureau of Northern…
Hackers successfully infiltrated Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), one of the nation's leading government-run research facilities. The attackers gained…
The Chippewa Falls Police Department on Thursday issued this press release on an Internet scam about the Internal Revenue Service: Within the past week, it has…