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Authorities said it was the Internet that brought down Clement Bilski Jr. The investigation and subsequent indictment of the 43-year-old Ocean Township…
A hacker who broke into the network of T-Mobile USA Inc. and accessed personal information of hundreds of customers including a Secret Service agent was…
A new proof-of-concept virus recently submitted to Symantec demonstrates that a virus targeted at a certain architectural flaw in most modern CPUs could take…
There's a new threat that can literally take your computer files hostage with hackers demanding a ransom to unlock them. What do you store on your computer? If…
Police tightened security around the Taipei Railway Station, the Presidential Office building and the Presidential residence from late on Saturday night to…
Spam experts based in Sydney, one of the global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers operated by Sophos, have identified an active phishing…
The owner of a massive for-profit software piracy website was sentenced in federal court to six years in prison, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of…
A 19-year-old man today pleaded guilty to breaking the Computer Misuse Act for sending an "email bomb" to his former employer, which caused the company's email…
Few "ethical" hackers can provide simulated attacks with the level of sophistication that Cenzic offers in its Hailstorm "hacker-in-a-box" penetration tester.…
Companies that work with law enforcement agencies on cybercrime can get valuable information, including lists of hostile IP addresses and information on new…
A U.K. teen was sentenced to a two-month curfew after pleading guilty to sending about five million spam e-mails. The 18-year-old admitted that this act…
Indonesian police claim to have arrested two men who helped imprisoned Bali bomber Imam Samudra to use the internet to raise funds for more terrorist attacks.…
Yahoo is testing a new security feature that lets users customize their login page, a measure designed to thwart information-thieving phishing scams. The…
A new PowerPoint zero-day Trojan is making the rounds. The vulnerability appears to be a new one and is unrelated to the one fixed in MS06-048 that has already…
Instead of the usual description of Kevin Mitnick, his consulting services and books, the famed hacker's Web site on Sunday displayed a vulgar message. Online…
Experts at SophosLabs™ have reminded computer users of the dangers of identity theft as a 20-year-old man is charged in relation to a phishing website which…
Users of the popular MySpace website have been warned by computer experts that viruses linked to the interactive site, which boasts more than one million…
Yahoo has fixed a vulnerability in its web mail service that, if exploited, could allow hackers access to users' mailboxes. The attackers gain access to the…
An Internet scam sweeping the United States has reached a family in Jefferson County. The scam involves the selling or renting of items over the web. After the…
Travel agents warned holidaymakers on Friday to be careful about booking trips online after an Internet scam was uncovered that has left nearly 3,000 people…
International Conference "BIN GigaCon 2006 - IT Systems Security and Reliability" 07-08 September 2006, Warsaw, Poland BIN GigaCon conferences, the biggest and…
There were 1,802 cybercrimes committed during the first six months of this year, a rise of 190 cases when compared with the same period last year and the…
File this one under A for Awareness. Available for purchase soon in the U.S. is a device that will enable you (or, more likely, someone you don't like or don't…
According to Consumer Reports' third annual State of the Internet survey, it found over the last two years Americans have lost approximately $8 billion at the…
Yahoo has fixed a potential security flaw in its email service that could have allowed hackers to hijack Yahoo email accounts. The problem was discovered…
Research from Cardiff University has revealed that around 3 million online customers of HSBC may be vulnerable to fraudulent attacks. This is because HSBC has…
When a family found extra calls on their phone bill, they queried it with the phone company. It turned out their Internet modem had been hijacked. Most of us…
What happens when you combine a computer nerd with a pedophile? According to Canada's top cybercops, you get the high-tech predator, one of the most ominous…
The FBI is investigating an Internet identity-theft scam -- known commonly as ``phishing'' -- in which money was stolen from a parish account at St. Catherine…
Over 87% of Kiwi organisations report having experienced some kind of security incident, according to the 2005 New Zealand Computer Crime and Security Survey —…