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April 1, 2005 · Canada.com
Canadians fear identity theft over virus attacks

TORONTO (CP) - Thirty-nine per cent of Canadians consider identity theft, such as having passwords and personal information stolen, to be their primary…

March 31, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Top world ISPs unite in fight against hackers

Top world's Internet providers have announced the establishment of a global anti-hacker alliance (Fingerprint Sharing Alliance). BT Group, Deutsche Telekom,…

March 31, 2005 · ZDNet Australia
Microsoft fighting cybercrime

** Microsoft is developing analytical tools to help international law enforcement agencies track and fight cybercrime.** Microsoft unveiled the tools…

March 30, 2005 · OverclockersClub
Hackers kidnapped 59,000 students

Nearly 59,000 people may have their personal information at the hands of a hacker that cracked in to computer servers at the California State University.…

March 30, 2005 · Chicago Tribune
Spam scam or scam spam?

The e-mail, written in poorly composed English, is deceptively simple: help the widow of a dead Nigerian dictator get possession of $25 million or so in cash…

March 29, 2005 · The Inquirer
Microsoft remedy to secure Web

Microsoft will tackle the growing fear of identity theft in its upcoming version of Windows, codenamed Longhorn, with a technology it calls ‘info-cards’, the…

March 29, 2005 · Vnunet.com
Bounty for Mac virus

A competition to see who could infect an Apple computer running OS X has been scrapped by the organisers after complaints from Apple users and fears of legal…

March 29, 2005 · Star-Telegram
Is Cyberterrorism A Threat For Today?

Cyberterrorists are not a serious problem now, but they will be someday, a computer security expert says. The spooky and vague notion of cyberterrorism is a…

March 29, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Online dating fraud

Have you met anyone online? Do you have any online girlfriends or pals? Have you exchanged photos with them? Do they look like 1 million dollar? Where do they…

March 29, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
New York Teen Pleads Guilty to Making Extortion Threats Against Internet Company

A New York state teen-ager arrested last month for threatening to tell other spammers how to send waves of unsolicited messages to an online instant messaging…

March 29, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Hackers: Computer Outlaws

People attacking computer systems are named as hackers in mass media (and accordingly in a society). However many representatives of a computer underground…

March 28, 2005 · STUFF
Banks fess up on online fraud

New Zealand banks were hit by about 200 Internet banking frauds last year, an informal poll conducted by NZ InfoTech has found. Though the banks say they…

March 28, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russian hacker arrested

Officers of Department K of the Russian criminal police arrested a 20-year-old Tver resident during investigation. He worked as a network administrator with…

March 28, 2005 · Vnunet.com
Hackers Target Browsers To Dodge Firewalls

**Information is still the key target for hackers. Over half of the top 50 malicious codes detected last year were designed to capture personal information,…

March 28, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Child porn: Scientists interested too

A Christchurch scientist has been fined in connection with last month's nationwide Internet child pornography bust. Michael Harris submitted his credit card…

March 27, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
ANNOUNCEMENT: Computer Crime discussion board is open

Computer Crime Research Center is proud to announce it opened a discussion board -- [http://forum.crime-research.org](http://forum.crime-research.org). This…

March 27, 2005 · TechNewsWorld
Phishing Attacks Become More Dangerous, Symantec

**"Offline retailers worked together to reduce fraud over the years and have cut it down to under 1 percent of all retail sales," said Jupiter Research retail…

March 26, 2005 · Cybercrime.gov
Former IT Manager Indicted on Computer Crime Charges

The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced that the former Information Technology Manager of Creative Explosions,…

March 25, 2005 · ABC News Online
29 people charged in child porn crackdown

Police have charged 29 people on the Sunshine Coast after a week-long police operation targeting computer child pornography. Police from Task Force Argos,…

March 25, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Kevin Mitnik: you can hack a whole company

Following the launch of his new book, reformed hacker Kevin Mitnick spoke to vnunet.com about his work as a security consultant Between 1995 and 2000, Kevin…

March 25, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to be held in Bangkok

The Eleventh Congress will take place in Bangkok from 18 to 25 April 2005. The Crime Congresses are unique world events in that they provide a forum for…

March 24, 2005 · ZDNet UK
Mozilla patches back

**The Mozilla Foundation issued a patch for a major security flaw in its Firefox browser on Wednesday and advised people to update their software.** The…

March 24, 2005 · Cybercrime.gov
Hacker Intrusions into Government Computers

The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced that Robert Lyttle, 21, of Pleasant Hill, California, pleaded guilty in…

March 24, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Webmoney: $1,5 million stolen

A criminal case was filed against a Moscow resident suspected of fraud with the help of Webmoney Internet payment cards. The suspect has allegedly stolen about…

March 23, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Honeynet: 1mn of compromised PCs

More than 1mn computers are connected to the Internet and are infected with malware. They generate spam and viruses and also flood websites with unwanted…

March 23, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Hackers kidnapped 32,000 people

Using misappropriated passwords and identifications from legitimate customers, intruders got access to personal information on as many as 32,000 U.S. citizens…

March 23, 2005 · COMPUTERWORLD
Bank of America: Better encrypt and backup

Bank of America Corp.'s loss of credit card data on some 1.2 million customers, along with other recent security incidents, has renewed interest among some IT…

March 23, 2005 · Vnunet.com
McAfee protects against viruses not hackers

Security research firm ISS has issued an advisory warning of a "serious flaw" in McAfee's antivirus library system that leaves users wide open to attack. The…

March 22, 2005 · wired news
Security Cavities Ail Bluetooth

Serious flaws discovered in Bluetooth technology used in mobile phones can let an attacker remotely download contact information from victims' address books,…

March 22, 2005 · Vnunet.com
Beware: IM hackers

Hack attacks using instant messaging (IM) as an unprotected backdoor in enterprises are reaching epidemic proportions, industry experts have warned. Analyst…