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Hours of investigative and evidence processing work have already been recorded and more is likely to come, but an FBI agent last week who specializes in…
Metasploit, which regularly publishes exploit code for its flagship open-source attack testing platform, has released a new module designed to disguise any…
Millions of home computers are being attacked every day in the UK by potentially harmful junk emails, according to price comparison website uSwitch. A total of…
A Wichita man who hacked into 13 U.S. Army computers to steal credit card numbers and account information was sentenced to five years in federal prison, the…
Less than 24 hours after the launch of Internet Explorer 7, security researchers are poking holes in the new browser. Danish security company Secunia reported…
The growth of technology has changed our lives dramatically. Computers were viewed as a luxury or even an extravagance 30 years ago. We relied on television,…
In a twist on phishing, cybercrooks are hijacking instant-messaging accounts to lure people to their information-thieving Web sites. Traditional phishing scams…
Apple is apologizing to consumers after a limited amount of video iPods shipped from the factory, complete with a computer virus. What's more, it was a Windows…
When in the Internet, data are unprotected and totally exposed. To protect users from hackers and to grant their anonymity, SecurStar offers the appropriate…
Dear Reader: I am writing to you with warm wishes from my home in Nigeria. I am the nephew of a very wealthy oilman here in my country. Unfortunately, my…
Google's newly launched Code Search is proving useful for finding website vulnerabilities, but also for locating potty-mouth coder insertions. It seems…
The marketplace for phishing toolkits, which can allow technophobe criminals to quickly and easily set up spoofed versions of banking Web sites, is booming,…
The personal records of thousands of U.K. consumers have turned up on a computer recovered from criminals in the U.S. London's Metropolitan Police Computer…
An investigation has been launched into data recovered from a computer in the US that was found to contain information from hacked computers based in the UK.…
Bank customers, do not reveal your PIN or password and computer logon details to anyone seeking to obtain them by phone or e-mail. And those who receive calls…
The personal information -- including some credit card and bank account numbers -- of about 70,000 people who gave money to Brock University has been stolen…
Scotland Yard today issued an urgent warning that Britain was under a mass attack by hackers. Thousands of homes have been targeted by an organised crime gang…
Criminals covet your identity data like never before. What's more, they've perfected more ways to access your bank accounts, grab your Social Security number…
The Metropolitan Police is setting up an e-crime co-ordination unit to bring together all agencies that deal with internet crime. The unit will be a…
A hacker broke into Google Inc.'s main official blog and posted a false message on Saturday, saying that the company had decided to cancel a joint project with…
Home computers can come under attack from hackers more than 50 times a night. Researchers found their PC was targeted every time it was connected to the…
Just two years ago, Port Charlotte resident Troy Bettencourt was stationed within miles of the White House. As part of a multinational computer crimes and…
Two Romanian nationals are facing wire fraud and identity fraud charges for their roles in a $150,000 Internet auction scheme. According to a 10-count…
While most local police departments are dealing with reports of cyber crimes, the vast majority say they lack money and training needed to combat it, according…
Don't have time to verify potential phishing sites for the benefit of others? I don't blame you. But it's worth checking out PhishTank, if for no other reason,…
With cybercrime among the nation's top threats, cyber-sleuthing has become a hot study area at some Oklahoma colleges and universities. Several state schools…
A Belize business woman, Michelle Young, 38, and Guillermo Pech, 28 along with nine foreign nationals, have been indicted on charges of fraud and drug…
Three Russian hackers convicted of running denial of service attacks against UK bookies have each been sentenced to eight years imprisonment and fined $3,700.…
The open source Firefox web browser is critically flawed in the way it handles JavaScript, two hackers said on Saturday afternoon. An attacker could commandeer…
Another chapter has been written in the saga of the alleged security flaw in MacBooks, the one that supposedly allowed for a hacker to take control of a…