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Times Online has reported attacks on Wi-Fi hotspots in Coffee-shop chains such as Starbucks. The “evil twin” attacks involve a hacker setting up a rogue WiFi…
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In my youth, working at an electronics store, I had a very strange conversation with a customer. He insisted that computer viruses were a form of life, because…
Experts are warning of a new worm which spreads via USB keys in a reversion to the earliest methods of virus distribution. SillyFD-AA installs itself onto…
HACKERS have turned to the web as their preferred method of attack since computer users have become increasingly aware of how to protect against email-aware…
Police believe a threatening e-mail sent to an employee of Carlisle Machine Works, Inc. on Wade Boulevard was the result of an Internet scam to obtain…
Attorney General Bill McCollum will unveiling his CyberCrime outreach initiatives at news conferences in Tampa, Fort Lauderdale and Orlando on Friday. He will…
A substantial portion of online traffic may be an illusion, calling into question the underpinnings of the Internet's advertising economy. A study by spyware…
Six California men accused of breaking in to online bank accounts and funneling out the proceeds have been indicted for bank and wire fraud and money…
The son of a Salisbury, Mass., police sergeant, who tried to use that relation to curry favor from the local district court, will spend the summer in jail for…
Modern-day pirates have switched from ships to computers to plunder copyrighted material on the boundless Internet seas. But the copyright holders are starting…
Online scam artists con people out of an estimated $335 million dollars a year. The Internet has become a virtual hunt club for these criminals who prey on…
When a crime scene is in cyberspace, forget the yellow tape. Boundaries, along with evidence and procedure, need to be re-envisioned. Or, as Daniel E. Geer Jr.…
New Zealand websites have again been hit by Turkish hackers. This time someone called “crackers_child” attacked around twenty sites hosted by Digital Network…
Puppies are big business. Puppies sold over the Internet are a big part of that business. Now the bad guys are muscling in. You can easily spend a thousand…
Computer virus-infected cats, "spychipped" $20 bills, fashion police to use RFID, passport-triggered bombs, RFID a hazard to US ports -- which one of these is…
Be careful, the IRS is warning taxpayers about an Internet scam that sends out fake emails. They direct people to a web link that requests personal and…
A former credit union CEO was sentenced to a year in jail after being convicted of arranging to have sex with a 5-year-old girl while her mother watched. The…
A Georgia man will appear in a Harrisonburg court next week on charges he scammed $450,000 from an elderly area resident. Bennie Robert Moore Jr., 67, of…
Police have nabbed a Staten Island teenager after he broke into America Online databases in Manhattan and India and stole personal customer and employee…
An FBI specialist on white-collar crime said Wednesday that identity theft scam artists are increasingly targeting college students. John Letterhos is a…
Most people know about the potential dangers on the internet, but Cary's new crime unit will also look for a new kind of criminal -- one that uses the latest…
There has been an understandable public outcry against the RIAA’s attempts to more than triple the sound recording copyright royalties on Internet radio. (See…
BMW has been the victim of an internet scam claiming it is offering cash prizes or cars. The company has put out a statement warning that emails headed…
John Gruber of Daring Fireball has interviewed Dino Dai Zovi one of the people who cooked up an exploit to hack into a Mac last week as part of a challenge…
Hundreds of websites powered by St. Catharines-based YourNameSells.com – including dozens of businesses and non-profit groups in the Niagara area – remain…
A hacker scheme that involved buying search keywords on Google, then routing users to a malicious site when they clicked on sponsored links, was revealed…
These days you can do just about anything on the internet, from surfing to shopping. And that gives scam artists more avenues to take advantage of you. Here's…
Computer hacker Gary McKinnon is to be extradited to the United States. This case dates back to 2001, when Mr McKinnon hacked into computers belonging to the…
MessageLabs, a leading provider of integrated messaging and web security services to businesses worldwide, today announced the findings of its MessageLabs…