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March 15, 2007 · mailtribune.com
Surge in high-tech crime

The Medford and Central Point police departments have teamed up to combat the surge in high-tech crime plaguing Jackson County. The agencies announced…

March 15, 2007 · macworld.co.uk
Apple anti-fraud expert

A senior Apple technologist charged with developing anti-fraud and data mining tools at the company will speak during a special session at an upcoming internet…

March 14, 2007 · computing.co.uk
Millions due to ID fraud

Young people are putting their parents at risk of online fraud and identity theft through their social networking activities, according to a survey conducted…

March 14, 2007 · al.com
Cracking cybercrime

Hoover will be where law-enforcement officials from across the country come to learn how to use information-age tools to crack cybercrime. Last week, federal,…

March 13, 2007 · hometownannapolis.com
Virus attack

Anne Arundel County Circuit Court is taking a second look at how it digitizes court records after a computer virus sidelined the county government network for…

March 13, 2007 · nydailynews.com
Computer virus doubles phone bills

Rochelle Rothman usually spends about $60 a month for phone service. But she discovered she owed more than twice as much when she opened a recent phone bill.…

March 12, 2007 · itworldcanada.com
More targeted hacker attacks

Corporate IT managers should re-double efforts to guard against targeted attacks, which will increase in scope and subtlety this year, according to security…

March 12, 2007 · kansascity.com
Gateway fraud

Gateway to fraud Gateway Inc.’s former finance chief and its controller manipulated earnings in 2000, a federal jury ruled Thursday. The jury in San Diego…

March 10, 2007 · fox28.com
New computer virus

A computer virus that has been spreading across the country has struck hard at an area outside of Washington, DC. Authorities in Maryland, say a few hundred of…

March 9, 2007 · english.hani.co.kr
Fighting cyber fraud

Kim Tae-mun, a 26-year-old college student, found himself swindled out of 600,000 won (US$633) last December when he tried to buy a camera online. He ordered…

March 9, 2007 · foxnews.com
eBay hacker

The eBay villagers are whispering that he can creep through eBay's internal databases and suck the lifeblood of customer accounts — log-ins and passwords —…

March 8, 2007 · nj.com
Online stock scam

In the old days, when scam artists wanted to manipulate stocks in a "pump and dump" scheme, they'd use boiler rooms where cold- calling brokers employed…

March 8, 2007 · jta.org
Date scam

A Georgia man was arrested in a scam conducted partly over JDate in which a total of some $1 million was taken from at least 10 women. Hillard Jay Quint, also…

March 7, 2007 · PC WORLD
RFID Security

The Black Hat federal event in Washington, D.C. last week naturally showcased such speakers as a U.S. Department of Defense crime fighter, but it was…

March 7, 2007 · earthtimes.org
Malware economy reaches between $80,000 to $100,000 per year

SHANGHAI, China, March 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SonicWALL, Inc. today announced that it has opened a new research and development (R The center's strategic…

March 6, 2007 · fox11az.com
Skimming - a new computer scam

Both the FBI and postal inspectors are warning anyone who uses a credit card or debit card about an increasingly popular scam called “skimming.” The device…

March 6, 2007 · The Inquirer
Cyber Crime Center

The USA Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center – DC3 in its slang – freely admits it could use a helping hand from the private sector when it comes to…

March 5, 2007 · Daily Press
Training in computer forensics

The time it takes law enforcement to crack computer-related crimes will be significantly reduced now that local officers are being trained in computer…

March 5, 2007 · news.com.com
Intel hacker

A former Intel contractor has seen his conviction for hacking into the company's systems expunged, after a battle lasting more than a decade. Randall Schwartz…

March 4, 2007 · money.cnn.com
Disgruntled hacker

A disgruntled hacker with a personal grudge against Symantec, which provides anti-virus software to leading Fortune 500 companies, could be behind a new,…

March 3, 2007 · news.bbc.co.uk
Tackling electronic crime

An agency dedicated to tackling electronic crime in Wales has been launched. The unit will bring together government, police, academics and business in the…

March 2, 2007 · ljworld.com
Phishing results

He was duped, defrauded and cheated out of $3,500. The 19-year-old KU student is sitting on a substantially overdrawn bank account, and he says it’s because he…

March 2, 2007 · KFOXTV.com
Phishing e-mails

t looks like an e-mail from your bank, or some other business you know. But it's actually a fake, a carefully crafted e-mail designed to scam you out of your…

March 1, 2007 · whatpc.co.uk
Computer crime forensics

Think of a TV programme with a crime scene and there are usually some common components – a body, a bloodstained weapon and a couple of glasses covered in…

March 1, 2007 · SecurityFocus
Plague for computer-crime investigators

The increasing storage requirements of consumers and businesses has become a plague for computer-crime investigators, a former special agent told attendees at…

February 28, 2007 · zdnetasia.com
EU urging scam crackdown

The European Union will officially launch a crackdown on cross-border scams, including Internet fraud, this week. The scheme, called the Consumer Protection…

February 28, 2007 · computing.co.uk
CBI calls for Internet security

Employers’ body the CBI is calling for a national strategy to clarify where responsibility for internet security lies. There are few clear regulations…

February 27, 2007 · wmtw.com
Vulnerabilities of WiFi Internet

They can be found at coffee shops, book stores and hotels. There used to be just a few. Now they are quite literally everywhere. For the technologically savvy,…

February 27, 2007 · DenverPost.com
No jail time for child porn

Despite the arrests each year in Colorado of hundreds of predators who attempt to meet children on the Internet for sex, few of those arrested in stings do any…

February 26, 2007 · english.donga.com
Pharming scam

A global financial scam ring attacked more than 65 financial institutions and e-commerce corporations worldwide and stole personal information from these…