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CLINTON TOWNSHIP -- Macomb County authorities are joining forces with the FBI in a move they say will allow them to prosecute more cases in the ever-growing…
The world’s first MMS-spread mobile phone virus called Commwarrior, which also attempts to replicate through Bluetooth wireless technology, has been detected…
Companies relying on older versions of Symantec security appliances are being targeted with DNS (Domain Name System) poisoning attacks, which direct end users…
Lexis Nexis says hackers commandeered one of its databases, gaining access to the personal files of as many as 32,000 people. Federal and company investigators…
Virus analysts at Kaspersky Lab have been investigating the recent Bagle outbreak, and come to the conclusion that the authors of Bagle, Zafi and Netsky are…
Dejan Levaja, certain security expert, in his posting to [BugTraq archive at Security…
Hackers tried to transfer money from the personal account of the husband of the President of Latvia Vaira Vike-Freiberga and were caught red-handed. Criminals…
A New Zealand computer hacker has accessed the private bank accounts of dozens of unsuspecting Kiwis, showing how easy it is to break into our internet banking…
The Ukrainian Antivirus Center has summarized the results of virus activity in February 2005. The TOP 10 most dangerous viruses in February is as follows: 1.…
STOW -- A Hudson resident, formerly of Stow, is facing up to 20 years in jail and upwards of $250,000 in fines in connection with an Internet fraud scheme that…
**Police and computer experts in Wales will join force for an event aimed at finding ways of tackling the growing problem of internet crime.** They first…
The number of computer crimes committed via the Internet in Russia increased to 13 thousands in 2004, said Boris Miroshnikov, Chief Officer of the Bureau of…
Anyone is able to track and id a PC anywhere on the Internet by using its PC clock deviation as a fingerprint. Clock deviation is what a computer thinks the…
Arrests and convictions for internet child porn offences have more than quadrupled in just two years. New figures showed 2,234 perverts were cautioned or…
Microsoft Research announced last week that anti-spam technology has been used to create more effective vaccine designs for HIV. Such machine learning…
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) - Symantec Corp. on Wednesday said it secured an extension of a licensing agreement with Microsoft Corp. to continue providing…
**Paris Hilton is not alone.** According to a Los Angeles security consulting firm that went skulking outside the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood on…
Online auctioneer eBay, the first aim for phishing con artists, has been used as an unwitting accomplice. A vulnerability in eBay's server configuration allows…
Since 1998, malicious hackers have had a long time to work on attacking vulnerabilities of Internet Explorer starting with version 4.0 and above, so there have…
Hackers appear to have an increasing interest in reaping financial reward from their actions and creations. If, until now, phishing -- using e-mails to lure…
Phishing is a kind of id theft launched by con artists in the Web. It usually begins with spoofed e-mail appearing to be from a trusted financial institution…
Charles Anthony Collins, 34, admitted to a federal judge Monday that he downloaded more than 600 images of child pornography on his personal computer,…
Kaspersky Labs, a leading Russian developer of anti-virus, hacker and spam protection systems announces that they found a series of modifications of a famous…
Joseph Krull, former intelligence officer and present security expert for Virtual Corporation, recently let VeriChip implant a small RFID chip under the skin…
US Senator Larry Craig, Chairman of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, together with the Department of Homeland Security warned about e-mail scams that…
Singapore law enforcement start a wide-scale action to counteract cyberterrorism. It will be a 3-year program with a $ 23 million budget, Reuters informs. In…
After two months of promising to update its media player and block the threat of malware infection in it, Microsoft officials on Tuesday admitted that WMP 9…
The ChoicePoint scandal that released 4,500 Colorado residents' sensitive financial information to a fraud ring is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to…
A second person, a juvenile, has been sentenced in connection with the release of a computer worm in August 2003 that attacked the same vulnerability in…
Enterprises are watching employees and employees are watching employers with increasing unease on both sides. In our global economy with its fluid workforce,…