Computer Crime Research Center

News 2004-04



April 30, 2004 OP-ED: Terrorism and the Internet

According to Daily Times, while the danger cyber-terrorism poses to the Internet is frequently debated

http://www.crime-research.org/news/30.04.2004/254/

April 30, 2004 Internet and security

Nowadays cyber terrorism poses a peculiar social national and international danger...

http://www.crime-research.org/news/30.04.2004/237/

April 29, 2004 Interview with a carder

A popular Computer Crime Research Center interviewed a carder named Script...

http://www.crime-research.org/news/29.04.2004/252/

April 29, 2004 Internet Fraud - The E-Bay Community Model

E-Commerce and Internet Auction Fraud: The E-Bay Community Model...

http://www.crime-research.org/news/29.04.2004/251/

April 29, 2004 Holograms to help security

A new direction in gathering evidence for ascertaining guilt of a person that committed computer crime...

http://www.crime-research.org/news/29.04.2004/244/

April 28, 2004 Hack + Activism = Hacktivism

A term "hacktivism" originated from the combination of two words "hack" and "activism" and is used to mean a new phenomenon of social protest...

http://www.crime-research.org/news/28.04.2004/235/

April 27, 2004 U.S. Considering Ratifying Cybercrime Treaty

The Register writes "US defends cybercrime treaty". The U.S. has already signed the treaty, but it has not yet been ratified by the Senate (although President Bush has written a letter urging the treaty's passage)...

http://www.crime-research.org/news/27.04.2004/243/

April 26, 2004 Ukraine: hackers school

Law enforcement officers often complain that former USSR region is an incubator of talented and usually unemployed geniuses that may threat to e-commerce and computer systems anywhere...

http://www.crime-research.org/news/26.04.2004/233/

April 25, 2004 Moscow: hacker's soft is sold in the street

ZAPOROZHYE (CCRC) – Moscow: Officers of the Department on Fighting Economic Crimes of the Moscow Regional Police Department managed to expose a 22-year-old Moscow resident for allegedly distributing malicious software...

http://www.crime-research.org/news/25.04.2004/234/

April 24, 2004 Microsoft joins the fight against Internet paedophilia

Microsoft and The International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children have joined forces to battle the Internet's child pornography problem, and have formed the Global Campaign Against Child Pornography...

http://www.crime-research.org/news/24.04.2004/242/

April 24, 2004 Beware: traps on the Net

http://www.crime-research.org/news/24.04.2004/232/

April 23, 2004 Child porn remains on the Internet

ZAPOROZHYE (CCRC) - Up to 75% of all child porn production are spread over the Internet. According to law enforcement data, about 90% of international investigative commissions, issued by Interpol...

http://www.crime-research.org/news/23.04.2004/231/

April 22, 2004 Ukrainian law enforcement to fight high tech crimes

http://www.crime-research.org/news/22.04.2004/213/

April 21, 2004 Phishers using smarter hooks

http://www.crime-research.org/news/21.04.2004/228/

April 21, 2004 Passwords revealed by sweet deal

BBC informs that more than 70% of people would reveal their computer password in exchange for a bar of chocolate, a survey has found...

http://www.crime-research.org/news/21.04.2004/227/

April 21, 2004 Internet terrorism: a new menace of the 21 century

As countries develop they become dependent on high technologies, including computers that are more and more involved in control of critical national infrastructure elements.

http://www.crime-research.org/news/21.04.2004/220/

April 20, 2004 Ukraine: an ordered through the Internet murder was prevented

Officers of the SSU (Security Service of Ukraine) prevented an ordered through Internet murder in Dnepropetrovsk region, Ukraine. This murder was allegedly ordered by a woman, citizen of the Netherlands...

http://www.crime-research.org/news/20.04.2004/221/

April 19, 2004 Internet crimes and security

http://www.crime-research.org/news/19.04.2004/214/

April 18, 2004 What is cyber-terrorism?

What is "cyber-terrorism"? Cyber-terrorism is the same terrorism, which uses computers and electronic networks for the terrorist actions...

http://www.crime-research.org/news/18.04.2004/222/

April 17, 2004 Victims of cyber crime

Companies are the main victims of cyber crimes. But neither state authorities, nor individuals are insured against cyber criminals...

http://www.crime-research.org/news/17.04.2004/212/

April 16, 2004 Spammer business on the rise

Spam-business is growing, its technical capabilities change, spammers have more and more servers, more money to hire programmers and to pay for hosting...

http://www.crime-research.org/news/16.04.2004/206/

April 15, 2004 Computer crime classification

Experts consider that computer crimes today represent more serious danger for our country than 5 years ago...

http://www.crime-research.org/news/15.04.2004/218/

April 15, 2004 Phishing Scams: Statistics from mi2gIntelligence Unit

Phishing expeditions can be a financial windfall for attackers, since some analysts' estimates put the success rate of such bogus e-mails at about 1 in every 20 recipients...

http://www.crime-research.org/news/15.04.2004/205/

April 14, 2004 Russia: all to fight cyber terrorism!

Now cyberterrorism can cause significantly more damage than any usual explosive device...

http://www.crime-research.org/news/14.04.2004/208/

April 14, 2004 Terrorism and high technologies

During investigation, officers was found out that units of Al-Qaeda responsible for recent terrorist acts in Spain were financed at the expense of bank robberies and forged cards operations in France...

http://www.crime-research.org/news/14.04.2004/211/

April 13, 2004 Ukraine: Legal Control of Use of Internet Technologies

In order to define an optimum direction of legal control in the Internet, a number of countries carry out specific studies, create centers and public authorities and adopt many legal acts and codes...

http://www.crime-research.org/news/13.04.2004/210/

April 13, 2004 Card frauds: geography of crimes

More than 40% of crimes related to bank cards frauds are committed by citizens of former Yugoslavia, Nigeria, Romania, Pakistan and Indonesia...

http://www.crime-research.org/news/13.04.2004/204/

April 12, 2004 Cyber Terrorism : The new kind of Terrorism

In order to combat this type of terrorism a lot of effort should be done at the personal level, the country level, the regional level, as well as the international level to fight against this transnational type of crime.

http://www.crime-research.org/news/12.04.2004/207/

April 12, 2004 International Cybercrime Conference 2004

http://www.crime-research.org/news/12.04.2004/203/

April 10, 2004 Russia: Insult in the Internet

http://www.crime-research.org/news/10.04.2004/202/

April 09, 2004 Ukraine: a reliable partner in fighting cyberterrorism and money laundering

http://www.crime-research.org/news/09.04.2004/200/

April 08, 2004 Maxim Kovalchuk will be out on bail

In the San-Jose circuit court, on a case of Ukrainian Maxim Kovalchuk-Vysochanski accused of committing computer crimes in the USA, a judge rejected his lawyer's offer

http://www.crime-research.org/news/08.04.2004/197/

April 07, 2004 CCRC competition summary

ZAPOROZHYE, Ukraine (CCRC) - Computer Crime Research Center and the Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) at the American University, Washington, DC, USA, summarizing the results examining of applications for the competition "Research Projects on Problems of Computer Crime and Cyberterrorism"...

http://www.crime-research.org/news/07.04.2004/187/

April 07, 2004 $2M from nothing

http://www.crime-research.org/news/07.04.2004/181/

April 06, 2004 Ukrainian hacker Maxim Kovalchuk appeared in the court

http://www.crime-research.org/news/06.04.2004/175/

April 05, 2004 The price for security

http://www.crime-research.org/news/05.04.2004/172/

April 03, 2004 Computer & Internet Crime 2004

http://www.crime-research.org/news/03.04.2004/171/

April 03, 2004 Ukrainian system of criminal investigation in the action

http://www.crime-research.org/news/03.04.2004/169/

April 02, 2004 Computer crimes in Ukraine

http://www.crime-research.org/news/02.04.2004/168/

April 02, 2004 Criminals go in the Internet

http://www.crime-research.org/news/02.04.2004/170/

April 01, 2004 100 people arrested on a charge of child porn

http://www.crime-research.org/news/01.04.2004/166/

April 01, 2004 Ukrainian government to shift state institutions to legal software

http://www.crime-research.org/news/01.04.2004/167/

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