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December 20, 2012 · Medianama.com
Tamil Nadu Govt To Amend Goondas Act To Include Cyber Crimes

In what is a rather worrying development, the Tamil Nadu government has announced that it will make amendments to its existing Goondas Act to include cyber…

December 10, 2012 · Gulfbusiness.com
Cybercrime In UAE To Rise In 2013

The UAE, ranked as one of the most highly spammed countries worldwide in 2011, will continue to be a target for cybercrime attacks for businesses and…

November 5, 2012 · Darkreading.com
Team GhostShell Declares War On Russia's Cyberspace

The hacktivist group Team GhostShell has posted some 2.5 million records on the Internet in a protest against the Russian government. In a dump of files on the…

October 18, 2012 · Londoncommunitynews.com
London police make cyber crime arrest in St. Thomas; two young victims identified

The London Police Cyber Crime unit received information from the National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre that a residence in St Thomas was responsible…

October 9, 2012 · Mb.com.ph
Cybercrime Law Stopped

MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court (SC), in a unanimous vote of 14 justices on Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) that stopped for 120…

October 4, 2012 · Dailyguideghana.com
Cyber Crime Tracking Intensified

AS PART of moves to track down cyber criminals, a three-day training programme has been organized for officials engaged in the fight against such crimes in…

September 24, 2012 · Sunstar.com.ph
Cybercrime body vows to protect freedom of speech

MANILA -- An inter-agency body assured that basic rights like freedom of speech would not be infringed under the Cybercrime Law, which is criticized for its…

August 9, 2012 · Allafrica.com
Predatory Cyber Crime in South Africa - Current Risks and Realities

Nearly a year ago, a specialist in software risk management and data storage, Marthinus Engelbrecht, warned that while statistics on violent crimes in South…

July 25, 2012 · Fijitimes.com
Cyber crime surge

FIJI needs to strengthen its laws to convict cyber crime offenders. Institute of Cyber Crime Law director Doctor Marco Gercke who's facilitating of a four-day…

June 21, 2012 · Hindustantimes.com
Cops get lessons to tackle cyber crime

n a bid to familiarise cops with the basics of cyber crime and hacking, a two-day cyber security and crime detection training programme was held in the city.…

June 14, 2012 · ITwire.com
Internet crime & taxes now ‘certainties’

In the shadows of the end of the financial year and the start of the tax season, security provider AVG has issued a timely warning to consumers and small…

June 13, 2012 · Kvia.com
Cyber Criminals Target Travelers

**FBI: Guests' Data Collected When They Log Into Hotel Wi-Fi Overseas** (CNN) -- A recent warning from the FBI about hackers targeting guests' data when they…

June 13, 2012 · Gulfnews.com
Oman forum calls for tough laws against cybercrime

Muscat: A key seminar on cybercrimes concluded on Monday with participants adopting a set of recommendations calling for, among other things, judges to be…

May 14, 2012 · Mcclatchydc.com
California leads the country in complaints of cyber crime

California led the country in cyber-crime complaints and dollar losses to victims last year, according to a study released today by the Internet Crime…

April 18, 2012 · Chicagotribune.com
Second City third in cybercrime

The Second City came in third for online crime origination according to a study released Tuesday by ThreatMatrix, a San Jose, Calif.-based cybercrime…

March 15, 2012 · Cambridgetimes.ca
Be protected from cybercrime

During March, Waterloo Regional Police, in partnership with the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, the Ontario Provincial Police and municipal police services, are…

February 23, 2012 · Thesundaily.my
Cybercrime threat serious

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 22, 2012): The global threat of cybercrime has never been more serious. A recent report by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigations…

February 10, 2012 · Computer Crime Research Center
9th International Information Security Conference "Securitatea Informationala-2012"

The Laboratory of Information Security of the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova announces the 9th International Information Security Conference…

February 9, 2012 · Csmonitor.com
As cybercrime rises, so does a new - and successful - breed of cybercops

**Amid the flurry of cybercrime news that dominated headlines last year, from rampaging hacktivists and cyberspies to rising sabotage threats to infrastructure…

January 20, 2012 · ITP.net
Cyber-crime in 2012

**There will be five categories of key players at the top of the cyber-crime game in 2012, according to Costin Raiu, director, Global Research & Analysis,…

January 2, 2012 · bangkokpost.com
Cyber crime taking on sinister forms

Police expect 2012 will be plagued with internet-based crimes, especially scams, lese majeste offences and cyber-robberies. Though police expect "ordinary"…

November 18, 2011 · Cybersecurityreport.nextgov.com
Cybercrime Watch: Fabricated Dating Profiles

House lawmakers on Tuesday are slated to mull updating a 1986 anti-hacking law that even ideological opponents agree criminalizes innocent Web surfing.…

October 14, 2011 · Economist.com
Is cybercrime as big as its foes fear?

BIG numbers and online crime go together. One well-worn assertion is that cybercrime revenues exceed those from the global trade in illegal drugs. Another nice…

September 26, 2011 · Bellinghamherald.com
Cybercrime: A billion-dollar industry

Are you protecting yourself from getting hacked? Think you're not at risk? According to a recent Norton cybercrime report, 431 million adults in 24 countries…

September 20, 2011 · Computerworlduk.com
Chinese hackers pledge to reject cybercrime

**Gong Wei and Wan Tao ask their peers to commit to a code on hacking standards** Two prominent Chinese hackers have released a convention calling for the…

August 25, 2011 · Guardian.co.uk
FBI fights back against cybercrime

An attractive brunette in a business suit is making her online pitch. "Are you tired of searching for legit CVV shops?" her animated form asks from the corner…

August 9, 2011 · Computerworld.com.au
Cybercrime fight costing companies more this year

Cybercrime cost corporations 56 percent more this year than last, according to an annual study from the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by ArcSight, an HP…

August 3, 2011 · Nationaljournal.com
Hatch, Gillibrand Introduce International Cybercrime Bill

Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., introduced legislation on Tuesday to punish countries that don't do enough to combat cybercrime.…

July 22, 2011 · Independent.co.uk
London teenager arrested in international cybercrime raids

**The raids, carried out in the UK, the USA and the Netherlands, were linked to the attack on PayPal, allegedly targeted after it stopped processing donations…

July 2, 2011 · Networkworld.com
Cybercrime fight hurt by apathy, law enforcement hurdles

"The understandable hesitation of law enforcement to 'work a case' in these areas has led to an unfortunate form of apathy by the consumer as well as the…