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Business owners and managers: Have you checked your full voice-mail system recently? It's one of those business tools that most of us take for granted until…
Everyone knows the saying: “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” But not enough people follow it, authorities say. The adage is a mantra of law…
Nigerian fraudsters have tried to besmirch the name of one of the pillars of the country's constitutional democracy, the very institution charged with rooting…
17-year old New Jersey hacker George Hotz, who unlocked the iPhone so that it can be used on any operator’s network, recently traded his unlocked iPhone for a…
Nearly half of small companies think that cybercrime is an issue for larger enterprises, according to a new survey. The study of 600 IT managers in small and…
Two young men, aged 17 and 18 are currently being held at the Lagos detention facility of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on allegation…
"Earn $2,000 a month." "Get rich from your living room!" "$30/hr at home." Their methods are convincing, getting customers to invest thousands of dollars by…
When you opened your e-mail account, the first e-mail you received was probably, "Welcome to Yahoo!" (or AOL, or Google ...). The second was probably from…
Monster.com has admitted that the number of job seekers on its website who had their personal data stolen is greater than the 1.3 million originally reported.…
The Department of Justice (DoJ) has created a task force that will deal with cybersecurity issues in legislation and investigation. The group will pursue the…
One week after hackers stole personal information from millions of people who had posted their resumes to the job-searching site Monster.com, the company has…
SA loses billions of rands annually due to the population management system's inability to provide effective ID verification, says the Department of Home…
A former Delaware County deputy is being given a one-year deferred sentence after pleading no contest to a computer crimes charge. Krista Brady of Grove was…
The Securities and Exchange Commission has this year announced investigations into seven cases involving married couples. In 2006 there was one. In some cases…
The federal police are setting up a national unit to combat internet fraud. The unit will primarily address the large number of complaints of minor fraud that…
Losses amounting to several billions of euros are caused to official pharmaceutical companies annually by tens of thousands of online pharmacies. Illegal…
Malicious email software that blasted hundreds of thousands of messages to businesses throughout Wairarapa has been fingered as belonging to an infected…
If you get a letter saying you've won the lottery, odds are you'll win nothing but trouble if you play along. The Early Show consumer correspondent Susan…
Cyber criminals are having a field day as more and more people begin to use the Internet for day-to-day transactions. So beware, if one sees an e-mail from the…
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…