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July 20, 2005 · wesh.com
Top Internet scams, beware

According to the Better Business Bureau, the international lotto scam that recently tricked an Ocala woman is No. 6 on the BBB's list of top 10 scams. Scam No.…

July 20, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Cybercrime: data theft

The sheer scope of the impact is mind-boggling. A recent security breach at a major credit card processor reportedly exposed more than 40 million card-holder…

July 19, 2005 · Herald Sun
Computer crime: The Australian facts and figures

Internet fraud is costing the National Australia Bank about $1 million a month and it could blow out to as much as $30 million a year by 2008. The NAB figures…

July 19, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
New XP flaws, Microsoft

A newly discovered and as-of-yet unpatched security vulnerability in Windows XP could let an attacker remotely crash computers. The flaw affects the Windows…

July 18, 2005 · itp.net
UAE banks hit by hackers

Banks across the UAE were hit by a wave of hacking attacks last month, with at least two banks reporting they had fought off the hackers. National Bank of…

July 18, 2005 · Bradenton Herald
Child porn: prosecution problems

Eleven pornographic images - some girls, some boys, some of both, one from Missouri, 10 from around the world, all graphically sexual in nature. A 48-year-old…

July 17, 2005 · Internetnews.com
Mozilla website attacked by hackers

Mozilla's SpeadFirefox.com community marketing site became an unwitting spam platform after it was hit by "unknown remote attackers," the site's managers said.…

July 17, 2005 · itworld.com
AMD sues Intel

Intel's compilers recognize when they're running on an AMD processor, and generate code that either degrades performance or causes it to crash. That's one of…

July 16, 2005 · chron.com
Retired policeman charged of accessing child porn

A retired South Texas police sergeant is accused of downloading child pornography on a city-owned computer while he was on duty. Santiago Salinas, 48, was…

July 15, 2005 · InformationWeek
Cybercrimes decrease, FBI and CSI

A downward turn in overall cyber crime has hit its fourth year, said the 10th-annual survey on computer crime released Thursday, and average financial losses…

July 15, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Spam issues

Latest market studies have reported that after all the hype surrounding spam mails and anti-spam utilities; users are still falling big time to the frauds…

July 14, 2005 · ZDNet UK
Computer crime: cyberattack in the UK

The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit has been called in after the local force failed to find any suitable leads. Computer crime experts at the National Hi-Tech…

July 14, 2005 · ZDNet UK
Hackers could get tougher sentences

A Labour MP is attempting to raise the maximum sentences that can be handed down on UK citizens who are convicted of hacking and DoS attacks. Tom Harris, MP…

July 13, 2005 · Silicon.com
Firefox bugs

The Mozilla Foundation has fixed several security flaws in its Firefox browser but has left people in the dark about what some of the issues entail. Firefox…

July 13, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Commercial piracy in Ukraine

The international recording industry today welcomed the adoption by Ukraine of a landmark CD plant law that is a decisive step in the fight against the…

July 12, 2005 · ZDNet UK
Sasser creator escapes prison

30 hours of community service and a suspended jail sentence have been handed down to Sven Jaschan after he admitted writing the Sasser worm A German judge on…

July 12, 2005 · banktechnews.com
40 million card owners could be exposed to danger

MasterCard's recent admission that 40 million customers could be affected by the lastest in a string of high-profile breaches has bankers scrambling to keep up…

July 11, 2005 · self seo
Watch Out! Scam!

The IFCC (Internet Fraud Complaint Center) received over 200,000 complaint submissions for 2004, an increase of 66.6% from 2003. The total dollar loss from all…

July 10, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Phishing on the rise

Postini, the industry 's leading provider of email security and management services, today announced that phishing attempts in June were once again on the rise…

July 10, 2005 · The Australian
Child porn cases

Dozens of men accused of downloading child pornography from the internet may have been wrongly prosecuted, according to expert prosecution and defence…

July 9, 2005 · Daily Southtown
Computer crime: tips from police

Detectives on guard for online scams Wednesday, July 6, 2005 By Juliana Keeping Special to the Daily SouthtownInternet scam artists today are a prevalent…

July 9, 2005 · TorontoSun.com
Computer crime is ever-increasing

More than half of all Canadian computer owners were victims of Internet crime and didn't know it, according to a 2005 study commissioned by McAfee, a North…

July 8, 2005 · News.scotsman.com
Sasser boy facing jail

A German teenager is facing a jail term after admitting yesterday to creating and unleashing the "Sasser" computer virus that crashed systems across the world,…

July 8, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russia, Biggest Ever Credit Card Scam

CardSystems Solutions Inc. admits it made a huge mistake after some 40 million credit card accounts ended up in the wrong hands. Some of those account numbers…

July 7, 2005 · Australian IT
Acrobat flaw

Adobe has issued a warning that flaws in versions of its popular Acrobat document reader for Linux and other Unix-based operating systems could allow a hacker…

July 7, 2005 · InformationWeek
Viruses change us

The threat of spyware and viruses being secretly downloaded on their computers has caused the majority of consumers to change their online behavior over the…

July 6, 2005 · Tahoe Daily Tribune.com
Beware: virus, FBI warns

An FBI agent issued a warning to computer owners about fraud and a fake e-mail with a link for protection against the Trojan horse program which actually ends…

July 6, 2005 · Maiami Herald
Cybercrime cost about $400 billion

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE - News), the leader in Intrusion Prevention and Security Risk Management…

July 5, 2005 · ZDNet UK
Microsoft unveils a new unpatched IE flaw

Microsoft has issued a security advisory for Internet Explorer, after a research firm published a working exploit to demonstrate how attackers could take…

July 5, 2005 · addict3d.org
Apache HTTP server vulnerability

Discussion Apache is prone to an HTTP request smuggling attack. A specially crafted request with a 'Transfer-Encoding: chunked' header and a 'Content-Length'…