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June 23, 2006 · communitydispatch.com
FBI on phishing

**The FBI is warning web users of phishing attacks targeting users of a popular social networking web site. The scam is designed to steal personal…

June 23, 2006 · publicbroadcasting.net
Cybercop charged with cybercrime

The top cyber-crime investigator for the Monroe County Sheriff's Department has himself been arrested for computer tampering. 44 year old Investigator Michael…

June 23, 2006 · seacoastonline.com
Newspapers under hacker attacks

The Internet sites of three Maine newspapers were hacked into during the weekend by someone who replaced legitimate Web news pages with replacement pages…

June 22, 2006 · mercurynews.com
Hackers attack social networks

Social networking sites, where millions of people communicate with friends and family, are emerging as the next frontier for Internet pickpockets. These…

June 22, 2006 · 24-7pressrelease.com
First university course of hacking

The first university course of its sort is to be launched in the UK by the University of Abertay, Dundee. The course will comprise of lessons teaching students…

June 22, 2006 · Mywebpal.com
Cybercrime: How can you protect yourself?

Protecting oneself from cybercrime requires know-ledge of the computer itself and good judgement. “First and foremost, use common sense,” said Christopher…

June 22, 2006 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer crime is costing firms up to £270,000

Computer crime is costing firms up to £270,000 an hour but many companies fail to tell the police because they do not want adverse publicity, according to a…

June 21, 2006 · home.businesswire.com
Business signatures to help protect onlice bank transactions

Launching an easily deployed, no web application change approach to the problem of protecting risky transactions in online financial services, Business…

June 21, 2006 · orlandosentinel.com
Virus disrupted computers

The city is struggling to repair its computer systems -- a vital resource for many administrative services -- after suffering two big disasters less than 48…

June 20, 2006 · MercuryNews.com
Excel flaws attacked

A flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Excel spreadsheet could allow criminals to remotely control a computer, the company confirmed Monday. Microsoft, the world's…

June 20, 2006 · REUTERS
Google hacked

A new Internet worm capable of stealing bank details and other personal data from users is circulating via Orkut, Google Inc.'s (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile,…

June 19, 2006 · Channel Register
National Australian Bank hit by phishing attack

A phishing email claiming that The National Australia Bank (NAB) is bankrupt has caught more than 1,000 of the bank's customers in its net. The email warns the…

June 19, 2006 · athensnews.com
Wave of online scams

Several complaints of Internet fraud in Athens have been reported to the Athens Police Department in recent weeks. According to a news release from the police…

June 19, 2006 · Computer Crime Research Center
FBI opens new cybercrimes unit

Six years ago, cybercrime such as online financial fraud, computer tampering, Internet child pornography and sexual exploitation of a child barely registered a…

June 18, 2006 · PC Pro
PayPal security flaw

According to Net monitoring body Netcraft, a security flaw in the PayPal site is allowing phishers to exploit victims via a cross-site scripting attack. The…

June 17, 2006 · noticias.info
Europol gathers cybercrime experts

This week computer experts from the EU Member States have been exchanging their views on how to stop the increasing number of crimes which are carried out in…

June 17, 2006 · PC WORLD
Microsoft Excel hit

A new vulnerability has been found in Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program, just a few days after the company fixed problems with several of its applications…

June 16, 2006 · noticias.info
Europol gathers cybercrime experts

This week computer experts from the EU Member States have been exchanging their views on how to stop the increasing number of crimes which are carried out in…

June 16, 2006 · ITNews Australia
Microsoft Windows will be a secure system

Microsoft has long received criticism that Windows is an insecure operating system, and that basic maintenance tasks such as backing up a hard disk are too…

June 15, 2006 · newtelephony.com
VoIP hackers

The arrest of a wholesale VoIP entrepreneur last week for fraud and hacking points to much more than a criminal mind cheating the system – it brings to light…

June 15, 2006 · techspot.com
Spyware tripled

New research conducted by security company Aladdin's Content Security Response Team has confirmed what many in the security community have suspected - the…

June 14, 2006 · wabusinessnews.com.au
New phishing scams

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has issued a consumer warning about scams that convince consumers to provide personal banking details via…

June 14, 2006 · ComputerWeekly.com
Microsoft flaws and patches

The patches, part of Microsoft’s monthly scheduled patching cycle, address problems in the Windows operating system, the Office productivity suite and Windows…

June 13, 2006 · Computer Crime Research Center
The international practical-scientific seminar "Child pornography and trade by the children through the world network the Internet"

10-11 July 2006 on the base of the Saratov Center for the case study of the organized criminality and corruption with the support of the embassy OF THE USA in…

June 13, 2006 · english.aljazeera.net
Hackers break into US nuclear agency

A computer hacker has got into the US agency that guards the country's nuclear weapons stockpile and stolen the personal records of at least 1,500 employees…

June 13, 2006 · foxnews.com
1,500 social numbers stolen by hacker

A hacker stole a file containing the names and Social Security numbers of 1,500 people working for the Energy Department's nuclear weapons agency. But in the…

June 12, 2006 · The Register
Taiwan - the kings of spam

Almost two thirds (64 per cent) of servers controlling spam traffic are located in Taiwan, according to a survey by email security firm CipherTrust. Such…

June 12, 2006 · arstechnica.com
Microsoft warns against zombies

When we first reported on zombie PC networks a couple of years ago, the idea seemed kind of novel. Infect the machines with a malicious program, instruct them…

June 11, 2006 · The Register
Why phishing works

Occasionally a criminal is so, well, clever that you have to admire him even as you wish that he spends the rest of his life in jail. Take Arnold Rothstein,…

June 10, 2006 · Computer Crime Research Center
Microsoft holes remain unpatched

Though Microsoft has gone back and forth for years on really putting Windows 98 and Windows ME into their “End of Life” clauses that will prevent them from…