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Anti-spam group Spamhaus accused Yahoo of being a host for thousands of phishing sites. Spamhaus is a non-profit organisation which is involved in anti-spam…
The music industry has vowed to pursue any company engaged in illegal file sharing after the Federal Court ruled that Sharman Networks was guilty of infringing…
Count Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), a feisty foe of Big Government, as a new believer in federal action to thwart identity theft. In advance of a Commerce…
The increased use of technology may actually make identity theft worse, according to research from the University of East Anglia. In a speech at the BA…
China's highest level anti-spam summit was held in Beijing this past weekend. Representatives from businesses that account for more than half of the world's…
Security vendors are now reporting on the August virus figures, and it looks as though Mytob has topped all the charts. Mytob variants accounted for over half…
At a High Technology Crime Investigation Association event on Wednesday, Microsoft Latest News about Microsoft announced plans to launch a Web site that will…
Different groups of hackers are competing with each other to create the greatest number of infections. According to security firm Kaspersky, cyber wars…
Satellite photos of major security facilities in Korea, including Cheong Wa Dae and the bases of the U.S. Forces Korea, are posted on the Google website, the…
It seems our friends the phishers and virus writers take holidays like the rest of us. According to security outfit Postini, there was a 90 per cent reduction…
The teenager arrested on suspicion of writing and distributing the Zotob Windows 2000 worm may have authored more than 20 other viruses, it has emerged. The…
Google asks court to void Lee's Microsoft pact, discusses another chapter in the case that took place last week when Google asked a federal judge in California…
Microsoft has revealed that anti-phishing features would be made available to Internet Explorer 6 users through an update to the company's MSN Toolbar. The…
A Meriden man has pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to the theft of the source code to Microsoft's Windows software. William Genovese Junior…
One of the two men arrested last week on charges of creating and mailing the Zotob bot worm also authored some, but not all, of the many Mytob worms in…
In 2004, after months of putting a virtual tail on a hacker who called himself Pherk, FBI agent Timothy Nestor had the guy right where he wanted him. Though…
Trying to stop junk email by filtering out words such as ‘sex’ didn’t work for Jeff Andrew, because incoming emails to his recruitment firm eJobs also used the…
Court in London goes over formalities and Britain prepares to hand over Michael and Ruth Haephrati to Israel for trial over affair that stormed Israel Modi…
Two men were arrested overseas on Thursday on charges of unleashing a computer worm that infected networks across the United States nearly two weeks ago, the…
Spam is on the run, with the world's leading spammer closed down and bankrupt. However, experts warn the latest computer scam called phishing is far more…
Turkish hacker responsible for Internet banking fraud has been caught in Adana. Atilla Ekinci, 23, is being held responsible for breaking into people’s…
LONDON, August 26, 2005 – The UK public is largely ignorant of the threats they face online and subsequently are at greater risk than ever of having their home…
It's one of the newest scams to hit the Tristate and, if you're not careful, there are several ways you too could become a victim. It's something that can cost…
With about 85% of the nation's critical infrastructure--energy utilities, manufacturing and transportation facilities, telecommunication and data networks, and…
Japanese authorities have arrested a Chinese exchange student for hacking into the online game Lineage II. The hacker had crafted a special software…
An online intruder has disappeared into the wild blue yonder with personal data on approximately half of the U.S. Air Force's 70,000 officers. The information…
Windows NT server operators beware: hacker and Napster fan 'Pimpshiz' has you in his sights and is out to do some serious damage in the run up to the Napster…
The UK government is to move against the availability of violent pornography online, the Home Office has announced. Following a meeting between Home Secretary…
At a hearing in New York, a fired America Online engineer has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for selling 92 million AOL e-mail addresses.…
Cisco has released a patch for its Cisco Clean Access (CCA) software, which is designed to seek out unsafe hardware on a network. The patch, rated less…