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May 5, 2006 · blogs.chron.com
Phishing study

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…

May 4, 2006 · wildcat.arizona.edu
Phishing hits bank's customers

A scam sent through WebMail last week, targeting the UA campus, has prompted police and university officials to warn about giving away personal information…

May 4, 2006 · PC mag.com
Intel will lay a hacker trap

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…

May 3, 2006 · marketwire.com
VoIP phishing attacks

Cloudmark, Inc., the proven leader in messaging security solutions for service providers, enterprises and consumers, has identified and begun blocking phishing…

May 3, 2006 · flightglobal.com
Online risk profile: computer crime

The Airline Risk Management Survey, a new piece of research commissioned by Airline Business and leading airline insurance broker Aon, is the first detailed…

May 2, 2006 · contracostatimes.com
Phishing scams: processing fees

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…

May 2, 2006 · Vnunet.com
Cyber criminals get more sophisticated

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.…

May 1, 2006 · jacksonsun.com
Targeted for identity theft

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…

May 1, 2006 · itvibe.com
Hackers are young

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…

April 30, 2006 · timesleader.com
Parents' problems, online activity

Renee Boland remembers visiting the profiles of her daughter’s friends and discovering questionable photographs. “I was shocked when I saw the pictures of…

April 29, 2006 · tmcnet.com
Computer criminals charged

Five individuals were charged with criminal copyright infringement in Charlotte, North Carolina, as part of an ongoing federal crackdown against international…

April 28, 2006 · Scmagazine.com
Trojan freezes PCs

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…

April 28, 2006 · PC WORLD
Hacker extradited into the US

A British computer hacker facing extradition for breaking into United States military computers said today that computer administrators fail to take easy steps…

April 27, 2006 · kvue.com
Fraudsters steal money from bank accounts

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…

April 27, 2006 · tectonic.co.za
Hackers for free software

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…

April 26, 2006 · SecurityFocus
Hackers use bot nets

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…

April 26, 2006 · dmnews.com
Bank of America vs phishing

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…

April 25, 2006 · news.bbc.co.uk
Raids on net paedophiles

The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) will be staffed 24 hours a day by about 100 police, computer technicians and child welfare…

April 25, 2006 · northjersey.com
Brazilian cyber crime

The rapid rise of the global economy is reshaping the way New Jersey companies do business, creating new opportunities and challenges. This weekly column…

April 24, 2006 · The Register
Cybercops on the conference

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…

April 24, 2006 · Silicon.com
Catching Cyber Criminals Yourself

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…

April 23, 2006 · tmcnet.com
Internet banking not always safe: Phishing

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…

April 22, 2006 · mercurynews.com
Macs: A growing danger of computer virus

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.…

April 21, 2006 · discwrite.co.uk
Anti hacker technology will cut online music piracy

A German research institute has developed a watermark technology to fight hackers that is quietly gaining traction in the European audio sector. MusicTrace, a…

April 21, 2006 · heise.de
Phishing: financial agent sentenced

The second judgment passed against a so-called financial agent in a phishing case in the Federal Republic has now been published, the "Arbeitsgruppe…

April 20, 2006 · en.rian.ru
40 Russian-language terrorist websites on the Internet

There are about 40 Russian-language websites with terrorist and extremist content on the Internet, a senior law enforcement official said Wednesday. "A quarter…

April 20, 2006 · Scmagazine.com
$84K fine for computer crime

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…

April 19, 2006 · foxnews.com
Hackers keep selling credit cards

Internet fraudsters are selling the credit-card details of hundreds of Britons each night by hacking into companies' computer systems. The gangs, thought to…

April 19, 2006 · rockymountainnews.com
15 years of jailtime for computer crime

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…

April 18, 2006 · examiner.com
Arnold Schwarzenegger vs. phishing

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…