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A study conducted by Harvard and Berkley shows that people, even those that should know better, were still likely to be fooled by phishing sites. According to…
A scam sent through WebMail last week, targeting the UA campus, has prompted police and university officials to warn about giving away personal information…
The chip maker, which launched its vPro brand for business desktops April 24, aims to increase PC security by stepping up the vPro machines' abilities to…
Cloudmark, Inc., the proven leader in messaging security solutions for service providers, enterprises and consumers, has identified and begun blocking phishing…
The Airline Risk Management Survey, a new piece of research commissioned by Airline Business and leading airline insurance broker Aon, is the first detailed…
When Antioch resident Keith Kelpsas received a congratulations letter in the mail, he thought his ship had finally come in. He believed he had won a $100,000…
The cost of computer crime in the UK has doubled in the past two years and fraudsters are becoming more sophisticated, IT security experts have warned.…
At the beginning of this month we ran a warning from the Mid-South Better Business Bureau that Huntingdon area residents were being targeted for identity…
The cost of computer crimes in the UK has doubled in the past two years. Tony Neate of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) said "with some 11,000 people…
Renee Boland remembers visiting the profiles of her daughter’s friends and discovering questionable photographs. “I was shocked when I saw the pictures of…
Five individuals were charged with criminal copyright infringement in Charlotte, North Carolina, as part of an ongoing federal crackdown against international…
A new type of ransomware, which freezes an infected PC and then demands affected users send the hacker money via Western Union, has emerged, according to…
A British computer hacker facing extradition for breaking into United States military computers said today that computer administrators fail to take easy steps…
A Central Texas businessman says someone stole $15,000 from his bank account and a University of Texas hacker may be to blame. Personal information from about…
Kgabo Sepuru says he's passionate about freedom, and it shows. He's been a software developer for nearly 15 years and is one of the driving forces behind free…
Online fraudsters and data thieves are more frequently using bot networks to get home and business PCs to do their bidding, with some estimates of the number…
If you are a large e-mail sender constantly subjected to phishing scams, all parts of your organization must be on the same page to combat the problem, Eric…
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) will be staffed 24 hours a day by about 100 police, computer technicians and child welfare…
The rapid rise of the global economy is reshaping the way New Jersey companies do business, creating new opportunities and challenges. This weekly column…
The start of the Infosec conference tomorrow will witness one of the first public appearances of the new Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). Dubbed the…
Though law enforcement has come a long way in fighting e-crime, its efforts are still only scratching the surface and businesses are learning they must build…
Barry Cohen switched to internet banking because he thought it was safe. But weeks after he signed up with HSBC, he became the target of online fraud, known as…
Benjamin Daines was browsing the Web when he clicked on a series of links promising to deliver pictures of an unreleased update to a computer operating system.…
A German research institute has developed a watermark technology to fight hackers that is quietly gaining traction in the European audio sector. MusicTrace, a…
The second judgment passed against a so-called financial agent in a phishing case in the Federal Republic has now been published, the "Arbeitsgruppe…
There are about 40 Russian-language websites with terrorist and extremist content on the Internet, a senior law enforcement official said Wednesday. "A quarter…
Zhijan Chen, of Portland, was fined after a five-month investigation by Washington State's attorney general's Consumer Protection High-Tech Unit found Chen…
Internet fraudsters are selling the credit-card details of hundreds of Britons each night by hacking into companies' computer systems. The gangs, thought to…
A Littleton woman was sentenced to 15 years in prison today for embezzling more than $1.2 million from a commercial real estate investment firm in Lakewood…
It’s been six months since Gov. Schwarzenegger signed the state’s anti-phishing law, but it doesn’t seem to be working. Oliver Friedrichs, director of emerging…