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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…

April 26, 2007 · punjabnewsline.com
April 26 - a virus day

Warning !April 26 is 'Computer Virus Day' and it is expected that millions of computers world wide may be attacked by deadly virus. Owners of most of the…

April 25, 2007 · virusbtn.com
Governments to combat cybercrime

With profits from fraud using privileged personal data stolen via phishing or spyware rocketing and making the development of malware an ever more lucrative…

April 25, 2007 · spannerworks.com
Consequences of e-fraud

Online shoppers are undeterred by the prospect of cyber crime providing they are fully informed of the potential risks, a new report has suggested. Consumers…

April 24, 2007 · ospint.com
Russian hacker job

The press service of the Kirovsk region department of the Federal Security Service (FSB) has published a report on detention of a hacker, who is charged with…

April 24, 2007 · pcadvisor.co.uk
Hackers find ways to break systems

Two security experts have discovered a way to inject false messages - some amusing and others potentially frightening - into car satellite navigation (satnav)…

April 23, 2007 · tallahassee.com
Bill against sexual predators on the Internet

The Legislature unanimously approved a bill that Attorney General Bill McCollum said Thursday will give Florida the nation's toughest penalties for sexual…

April 23, 2007 · dailytimes.com
Child porn posession

Dr. David Christopher Winkler, a 35-year-old Kerrville doctor charged Friday with possession of child pornography, is innocent and may have been a victim of…

April 22, 2007 · macworld.com
Mac security falls under hacker attack at conference

A hacker managed to break into a Mac and win a $10,000 prize as part of a contest started at the CanSecWest security conference here. According to the security…

April 21, 2007 · news4jax.com
Student nabbed in child porn case

A federal grand jury has indicted Christopher Andrew Piasecki, 20, of Illinois, for possessing images on his computer of children engaging in sexually explicit…

April 20, 2007 · net-security.org
Internet Fraud Watch and the Internet Crime Complaint Centre

British academics and information security experts are teaming up in plans to develop a cybercrime reporting portal for Europe. The project, still at the…

April 20, 2007 · echannelline.com
Cyber criminals and VoIP, RFID, mobile phones

McAfee Inc. announced the release of its second issue of Sage, a semi-annual security journal designed to inform executives and technical personnel on…