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International law enforcement agencies are set to join forces at the VB2007 anti-malware conference in Vienna next month to provide an insight into the work of…
Patrick Gray (PG): Now one of the trends that you outline in your book is concerns cyber crime could start originating out of Africa in a big way - it doesn't…
The SANS Internet Storm Center is reporting that some Hurricane Dean websites have popped up. As hurricane Dean intensified, we did see a number of related…
A 20-year-old "obsessed" with defrauding customers of the internet auction site eBay has been sentenced to two years' custody. Philip Shortman, from Cwmbran,…
A 1-800 phone number associated with a scammer trying to get credit card information from customers of Old Point National Bank has been shut down. A message at…
A blind genius, who insisted on being 5 years old forever, has died in Minneapolis. He was 58. Joe Engressia, who legally changed his name to Joybubbles in…
Recent Al Qaeda recruitment videos and foiled terrorist plots in the United Kingdom remind us that the effectiveness of terrorism is an issue of winning the…
A new report from the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee could lead to a major overhaul of internet security practices in the UK, with…
Scam artists have been around since Old Testament times, and most likely go back even further to a trusting caveman named Og getting taken in by a door-to-door…
More than half of Britons claim to be unconcerned about fraud relating to internet banking, according to a new poll. The research from Lloyds TSB showed that…
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day announced $100,000 in federal funding on Saturday to support a $3-million study of cybercrime in Canada, with Calgary the…
The UN was today reviewing the security procedures on its website after a group of hackers posted anti-Israeli messages on the personal page of the…
THE term is phishing, and though it has nothing to do with a boat or finned creatures swimming in water, phishers are reeling in thousands of unsuspecting…
In an exclusive PC Pro column, the Shadow Home Secretary, David Davis, accuses the government of taking a "lacklustre approach" to e-crime and putting us all…
Attorney General Bill McCollum, acting United States Attorney James R. Klindt, and Michael J. Folmar, Special Agent in Charge of the Jacksonville Division of…
The U.K. House of Lords Science and Technology Committee is urging that the government act to protect individual Internet users against online crime. The…
Children around the world unsuspectingly now hold weapons of mass destruction in their hands! These children may become the next generation victims of a new…
About the same time the American FBI revealed that it has gone out and tried to count the number of PCs that have been taken over by criminals for use in…
Internet companies, retailers and the government must do far more to protect people from the dangers of the "lawless Wild West" of cyberspace, an influential…
A South Australian farmer was lured to Africa with promises of marriage and gold then held hostage for 12 days. Des Gregor, 56, from Hoyleton about 120km north…
Security researchers in Germany continued to pull down exploit code from their sites last week, scrambling to comply with a German law that makes illegal the…
W32.Deletemusic: This is the greatest idea I’ve read about in a long time. As named, It’s a computer virus that destroys music files on infected computers.…
Ben Charnota is an unlikely computer nerd: an outdoorsy guy who didn't know a lick about technology until college. As a boy in Wisconsin he kept his ear glued…
Six men have been arrested in the Netherlands over an alleged internet scam that cost an Australian $US1.5 million ($1.76 million), police said Wednesday. The…
Each new report of stolen personal data by a hacker leaves computer users everywhere feeling more vulnerable. But there are a variety of measures a computer…
If you receive an email that seems to be from your bank, don't reply to it - give your bank a call instead. :: Check your bank statements for suspicious…
Cybercrime may consist of mostly ones and zeros, but it's costing Americans plenty of dollars and cents. According to a study by Consumer Reports, damage to…
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) recently announced the availability of My Internet Protect, a security knowledge mining, alerting and notification service for identified…
Terrorists could exploit a newly discovered software flaw to hijack massive computer systems used to control critical infrastructure. A security researcher at…
The survey of 2,000 households with Internet access shows that you now have a one in four chance of becoming a cyber-victim. Cybercrooks can do more than steal…