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TORONTO (CP) - Thirty-nine per cent of Canadians consider identity theft, such as having passwords and personal information stolen, to be their primary…
Top world's Internet providers have announced the establishment of a global anti-hacker alliance (Fingerprint Sharing Alliance). BT Group, Deutsche Telekom,…
** Microsoft is developing analytical tools to help international law enforcement agencies track and fight cybercrime.** Microsoft unveiled the tools…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
People attacking computer systems are named as hackers in mass media (and accordingly in a society). However many representatives of a computer underground…
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…
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…
**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,…
A Christchurch scientist has been fined in connection with last month's nationwide Internet child pornography bust. Michael Harris submitted his credit card…
Computer Crime Research Center is proud to announce it opened a discussion board -- [http://forum.crime-research.org](http://forum.crime-research.org). This…
**"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…
The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced that the former Information Technology Manager of Creative Explosions,…
Police have charged 29 people on the Sunshine Coast after a week-long police operation targeting computer child pornography. Police from Task Force Argos,…
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…
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…
**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…
The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced that Robert Lyttle, 21, of Pleasant Hill, California, pleaded guilty in…
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…
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…
Using misappropriated passwords and identifications from legitimate customers, intruders got access to personal information on as many as 32,000 U.S. citizens…
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…
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…
Serious flaws discovered in Bluetooth technology used in mobile phones can let an attacker remotely download contact information from victims' address books,…
Hack attacks using instant messaging (IM) as an unprotected backdoor in enterprises are reaching epidemic proportions, industry experts have warned. Analyst…