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Just a few clicks were enough to reveal names, training procedures and other secrets the U.S. military thought it had blacked out from an electronic report.…
The United States has placed China on its "priority watch list" of countries failing to give adequate protection to intellectual property rights (IPR) such as…
Bugs in anti-virus scanners and various media players joined flaws in Microsoft and Oracle software products in a list of the 20 most serious vulnerabilities…
Russia -- Department "K" (a department on fighting high tech crimes) revealed 4,295 crimes in the sphere of high technologies for the first 6 months of 2004,…
SAN FRANCISCO -- A senior computer security adviser to President Bush has joined a New Jersey technology startup that protects home Internet users from…
The "Red Hacker Alliance," the largest and earliest hacking outfit in China has regrouped after a short break. With some 20,000 hackers, the alliance was once…
The emergence of electronic money and global systems of electronic payments formed a parallel banking system. It has the entire network of semi-legal financial…
The U.S. military has assembled the world's most formidable hacker posse: a super-secret, multimillion-dollar weapons program that may be ready to launch…
FSB analysts have admitted for the first time that the Internet poses a threat to Russian authorities. Referring to the experience of Ukraine and Georgia, a…
Two senators known for carefully taking public stands have stepped into the intellectual property arena by calling for the U.S. to get tough on Russia and…
Ukraine ranked 57th in an annual survey of the world's Web-savviest nations by aggressively rolling out broadband and wireless Internet connections. As…
Computer technologies and international computer systems created a new environment. This environment favors crimes of national and transnational levels.…
Misspelled domains have been used by the scabrous almost since URLs were created. Pornographers were among the first to adopt the tactic of registering domains…
A senior Vancouver police officer has been suspended pending an investigation into possession of child pornography. Province sources say the man is the head of…
Cybercrime costs societies billions of euros every year, but it is not easy for European citizens to report that their digital identity has been stolen,…
More than 4,000 participants attended the 11th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice held in Bangkok from 18-25 April. The Congress organized…
Hackers infiltrated an IT exhibition last week and attacked delegates' computers with a new type of wireless attack. Security experts attending the Wireless…
A former Los Alamos National Laboratory computer specialist was sentenced to eight months in prison on Monday for hacking into and damaging the computers of…
More than 1 million of pirated disks were seized during a raid in Moscow several days ago. This crackdown was not the first and not the last, though there were…
McAfee, Inc., the leader in Intrusion Prevention and Risk Management solutions, today announced the most commonly reported malicious threats and potentially…
**The new trends, threats and challenges faced by the international community in countering cybercrime, bridging the digital divide among nations and…
MillerSmiles the web's dedicated anti-phishing service has released an updated version of its phishing frequently asked questions response sheet. The answers…
The Internet is entering into our lives and it seems not so exotic as it did in the past. It is a new tool for usual people and also for so-called virtual con…
Internet banking services have been operational in Malaysia since 2001. Presently, only banking institutions licensed under the Banking and Financial…
Russia -- Finally, a cracker of the 1S computer software products, Sergey Davydiyk, who is called "Sobol" or "Sable" in hacker circles, has sustained a…
**The online service will start around-the-clock searches for Web sites looking to fleece subscribers and will join forces with a security firm specializing in…
from the [interview](http://www.vnunet.com/features/1162443) with Kevin Mitnik. **Hackers are often portrayed in the media as nerds who can't get the girl. The…
RealNetworks has released a security patch aimed at plugging a flaw in its multimedia software that could allow hackers to run their own code on people's…
A Russian Hacker's Guide to Protection from Russian Hackers (Alexey Ivanov's advice for CISOs). 1. Do not store information on your network that doesn't have…
The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced that Robert Lyttle, 21, of Pleasant Hill, California, pleaded guilty…