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I came here thinking it would be easy to tell the white hats from the black hats among computer hackers. But at the Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences,…
U.S. consumers lost more than $7 billion over the last two years to malicious software and e-mail phishing schemes unleashed by cybercrooks, according to a…
Storm wave is biggest email attack on the Internet in years Be careful of those emails with breaking news or e-greeting card attachments which are becoming…
US federal agents are reaching out to computer hackers for help fighting crime and terrorism as a tug-of-war between privacy and public safety continues on the…
Every bit of Internet security advice you've ever read warns you to clamp down on incoming access to the computers on your home or office network. Turn on a…
Hackers have taken the computer virus to a new level with an elaborate "pump-and-dump" scheme that manipulates stock prices, experts say. The Storm, a worm…
A common Internet scam has found a new victim, prompting the Richmond RCMP to issue a warning Tuesday. A man approached Richmond RCMP at Vancouver…
raud levels in the UK are at record high, with the internet involved in almost all instances of fraud, according to the latest KPMG Fraud Barometer report. In…
The Kerala IT Mission and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing or CDAC has launched a web portal, the first of its kind in the country, to check cyber…
An investor is due back in court next Sunday, accused of issuing two dud cheques totalling BD1,100,000 to finance a hi-tech communications project in Bahrain.…
That gift card you spotted on the Internet offered at a nice discount look enticing? Buy it and you may be helping a cybercrook complete a slick…
A survey conducted by 192.com Business Services has revealed that over 70 per cent of Internet retailers are failing to report fraud losses or fraud attempts,…
With over half of computers attacked by viruses in the first half of this year, China has become one of the most serious computer virus-stricken regions in the…
The makers of peer-to-peer file sharing software such as Limewire are no strangers to controversy. Hollywood has been battling file-sharing over the Internet…
Fraud is running at record levels, according to a study by business services firm KPMG. The value of frauds in the first half of 2007 totalled £594m, more than…
Internet fraud is a growing threat as more and more consumers go Online to buy everything from flowers to furniture. Internet Bedroom Furniture Leader,…
India is pretty low down on the totem pole for cyber crimes: way behind the malicious, crooked and cross-wired geeks in the US, China and Europe. A research by…
The owner of three Internet-based companies has pleaded guilty in the southern Ohio division of U.S. District Court to claims that he lied to investors about…
The New Zealand Customs Service is warning people who have bought goods over the internet about a new email scam. The scam emails are sent to Hotmail accounts…
The FBI and the greeting card industry are warning people of fraudulent emails that claim to contain an electronic greeting card from an anonymous individual,…
Police have arrested eight people over a HK$5 million internet scam that made use of international e-auction platform eBay to cheat would-be buyers all over…
Police have predicted that scams using spy software downloaded from the Internet will become the ‘cybercrime of the future’. Supt Jerome Hardenberg, of Western…
For months now, the feds have said organized crime was moving into the realm of cybercrime, using hackers to run scams and break into systems. But Assistant…
Users who visit malicious Web sites frequently (and unknowingly) arrive via spam or phishing e-mails. Once there, complex infection mechanisms rapidly spread…
The black market for software nasties like viruses and spyware has grown hugely in recent years. But a worrying new discovery by a web security specialist…
If you have e-mail, then you've probably received a greeting card in your in-box within the last month. Don't open it! Internet spammers have launched an…
The FBI is warning the public against three separate Internet scams that continue to flourish through spam e-mails. The warning comes after the FBI's Internet…
Thailand’s information and communications technology ministry site was sabotaged yesterday. A hacker posted a picture of a, “smiling Thaksin Shinawatra and…
Hillsborough Township police are warning residents about several reports of attempted fraud over the Internet, in which victims received packages with checks…
Chinese hackers have sent e-mails to the Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) local branches and other recipients in the name of the DPP chairman with a trojan…