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May 14, 2007 · platinax.co.uk
Wi-Fi hacker attacks

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…

May 13, 2007 · itmanagement.earthweb.com
Vista security

» Check Your System's Heath Does your system feel a bit out of sorts? See what might be wrong with it by running a system health report. You can get one by…

May 12, 2007 · Australian IT
Computer malware: spies and worms

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…

May 11, 2007 · crn.com.au
USB sticks worm

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…

May 11, 2007 · NEWS.com.au
Rise of cybercrime in Australia

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…

May 10, 2007 · nj.com
Internet threats

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…

May 10, 2007 · pensacolanewsjournal.com
Cybercrime speech

Attorney General Bill McCollum will unveiling his CyberCrime outreach initiatives at news conferences in Tampa, Fort Lauderdale and Orlando on Friday. He will…

May 9, 2007 · darkreading.com
Spyware-Driven Fraud

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…

May 9, 2007 · The Register
Online bank fraud

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…

May 8, 2007 · seacoastonline.com
Internet crime

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…

May 8, 2007 · cbw.cz
Cybercrime in Eastern Europe

Modern-day pirates have switched from ships to computers to plunder copyrighted material on the boundless Internet seas. But the copyright holders are starting…

May 7, 2007 · detnews.com
Online renter scam

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…

May 7, 2007 · chronicle.com
Cybercrime in cyberspace

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.…

May 6, 2007 · COMPUTERWORLD
New Zealand websites hacked

New Zealand websites have again been hit by Turkish hackers. This time someone called “crackers_child” attacked around twenty sites hosted by Digital Network…

May 5, 2007 · abclocal.go.com
Nigerian Puppy Scam

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…

May 4, 2007 · aimglobal.org
Computer virus-infected cats

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…

May 4, 2007 · wkbt.com
Beware new Internet scam

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…

May 3, 2007 · macombdaily.com
Child porn case

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…

May 3, 2007 · dnronline.com
$400,000 scammed on the Internet

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…

May 2, 2007 · silive.com
Teenager hacks computers

Police have nabbed a Staten Island teenager after he broke into America Online databases in Manhattan and India and stole personal customer and employee…

May 2, 2007 · fayobserver.com
Students are targets to internet scams

An FBI specialist on white-collar crime said Wednesday that identity theft scam artists are increasingly targeting college students. John Letterhos is a…

May 1, 2007 · abclocal.go.com
Cyber crime unit in Cary

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…

May 1, 2007 · zeropaid.com
RIAA scam

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…

April 30, 2007 · motortrader.com
BMW is a victim of Internet fraud

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…

April 30, 2007 · blogs.guardian.co.uk
Bad news for Mac antivirus

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…

April 29, 2007 · wellandtribune.ca
Hacker slays websites

Hundreds of websites powered by St. Catharines-based YourNameSells.com – including dozens of businesses and non-profit groups in the Niagara area – remain…

April 28, 2007 · csoonline.com
Hacker steals Google links

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…

April 27, 2007 · volunteertv.com
Top scams on the Internet

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…

April 27, 2007 · ufodigest.com
British hacker loses extradition appeal

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…

April 26, 2007 · marketwire.com
Virus and spam in one e-mail

MessageLabs, a leading provider of integrated messaging and web security services to businesses worldwide, today announced the findings of its MessageLabs…