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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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Dozens of men accused of downloading child pornography from the internet may have been wrongly prosecuted, according to expert prosecution and defence…
Detectives on guard for online scams Wednesday, July 6, 2005 By Juliana Keeping Special to the Daily SouthtownInternet scam artists today are a prevalent…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE - News), the leader in Intrusion Prevention and Security Risk Management…
Microsoft has issued a security advisory for Internet Explorer, after a research firm published a working exploit to demonstrate how attackers could take…
Discussion Apache is prone to an HTTP request smuggling attack. A specially crafted request with a 'Transfer-Encoding: chunked' header and a 'Content-Length'…