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23-year-old Jayson Harris, 23, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison in the first case brought against Internet fraud by software giant Microsoft. Harris…
Iowa High school students will try to protect an imaginary company from a hacker attack tonight (Saturday) in Ames. The students will spend 15 hours as the…
The morning show at WBAB/Long Island was reportedly "hijacked" on Wednesday when someone broke in on its broadcast, possibly by using an illegal transmitter,…
Security researchers have discovered a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word, which is already being actively exploited by hackers in China and Taiwan.…
The depth finder showed fish were everywhere - but it didn't matter. As we trolled around the stumps in the upper part of the Ross Barnett Reservoir, we would…
This is the first of a two-part series on how to protect yourself from identity theft and fraud. Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey and D.A.…
Dimitry Ivanovich Golubov doesn't look like an arch criminal. A baby-faced 22-year-old Ukrainian, he is described by his lawyer as an unassuming part-time…
Switzerland's federal cybercrime police unit has reported a further increase in suspected cases of internet abuse. The Coordination Unit for Cybercrime Control…
A popular morning program on WBAB radio was "hijacked" Wednesday, station officials said, by someone who broke in on its broadcast -- apparently by using an…
Symantec boss John Thompson has told news.com that his next computer will probably be a Mac.,P. He said that the "target-rich" environment created by Windows…
Botnets are being used for Google Adword click fraud, according to security watchers. The SANS Institute has uncovered evidence that networks of compromised…
I often use this space to warn you about scams, mostly involving e-mail or the Internet. But the low-tech scams don't seem to be going away, so let's not…
U.S. identity theft cases: 19,178 per day, 799 per hour and 13.3 every minute. A silent stalker of victims, identity theft is receiving growing attention from…
Banks are being warned to beef up online security after an Upper Hutt couple had their accounts cleaned out by a hacker using keylogging software. Joanne and…
The UK's hacking community has strongly criticised how fellow hacker Gary McKinnon has been treated. Accused of hacking into US military computer networks, Mr…
One of South Africa's leading vehicle-recovery companies has begun a nationwide investigation into allegations that some of its employees may be helping…
Olympia resident Vern Seguin, 85, didn’t know what to think when he received a suspicious e-mail a month ago that included a Chase Bank logo matching the one…
Most of us deal with the internet on a daily basis. We use it for information and sometimes, to find a job. Crime reporter Miranda Combs tells us about a scam…
Spammers have attacked anti-spam, anti-spyware company Blue Security's Web site, stealing parts of the database to get customers' e-mail addresses. The…
Christopher Maxwell will have to pay more than $252,000 in restitution to a hospital and the Department of Defense for his role in attacking thousands of…
Ok, first... In Los Angeles, Jeanson Ancheta was sentenced to a 57 month in jail for operating a network of infected machines which included military server…
For someone accused of perpetrating the biggest military hack of all time against U.S. computer systems, Gary McKinnon is surprisingly modest. The self-taught…
Concluding the first prosecution of its kind in the United States, a well-known member of the "botmaster underground" was sentenced Tuesday to nearly five…
Small firms have been warned to be on their guard against increasing levels of cybercrime by West Midlands IT firm Adecs. The Coventry company has been going…
Six computer users in the Mid-south have been sued by the Recording Industry Association of America for illegally downloading music. It's a Federal Crime that…
Symantec is planning to revamp the Phish Report Network, an online project aimed at cutting down on "phishing" identity theft attacks. On Tuesday, the security…
Calls are coming into the metro area trying to scam you out of your money. A Hinds county woman says she was contacted by someone pretending to be from the…
According to Internet security company, Panda Software, zombie computers are now the biggest source of spam on the Internet. A zombie is a computer infected…
To the United States, he is a seriously dangerous man who put the nation's security at risk by committing "the biggest military computer hack of all time." But…
CHI 2006's last presentation on security contained a mixture of good and bad news. Rob Campbell (who was at pains to say that he was only presenting the work…