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An amnesty on the prosecution of viewers of internet child pornography has been proposed by a child protection group. The Churches' Child Protection Advisory…
An Idaho State University student is accused of altering another student’s personal records. After the victim watched our story on Thursday, he decided to…
A virus alert and IT security advice website for home PC users and small businesses has been launched by the government. The free site, called…
The Host Country Agreement between the United Nations and the Government of Thailand for the Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal…
In the week the UK topped the G7 league of broadband availability, the government has announced vital steps to curb the growth in security threats associated…
VANCOUVER – Vancouver police say they are getting lots of tips, after raising the alarm about a potential pedophile who has been dropping off hundreds of…
The FBI yesterday warned the public about an on-going mass e-mail scheme involving unsolicited e-mails purportedly sent by the FBI. The e-mails tell the…
SINGAPORE - Cyber terrorists could wreak havoc with a successful attack on critical high-tech systems, Singapore said on Tuesday in announcing plans to spend…
*Note: This is an excerpt. Link to full article is at the bottom.* Cyber Threats The cyber-threat to the U.S. is serious and continues to expand rapidly the…
So, you've got two firewalls, an intrusion prevention system [IPS] and antivirus software deployed, and you're feeling pretty good. Servers are patched,…
Legal rights for a sale in an e-commerce transaction are still a grey area. While consumers are not adequately protected in India, 13 countries have taken a…
The penal sanction against trespass or breaking and entry cannot hold against an act of hacking into a computer network and unlawfully acquiring proprietary…
BEIJING, Feb. 21 - Honkers Union of China (HUC), the earliest and largest hacker group in China and ranking number five in the world, has announced its…
Organized crime on the internet is a growing threat but the sky is not falling. That was the general message at a "town hall" event at the RSA Conference…
In a nearby county, a married man with two children logged onto the Internet and engaged in a conversation with what he thought was a 13-year-old girl. Over…
A recent report on trends in computer crime described a 'cyber mafia' of hackers operating protection rackets and the like. It made lurid reading, detailing…
ALLENTOWN -- Former Lehigh County Housing Authority Executive Director John Seitz pleaded guilty Friday to one count of possession of child pornography, a…
Internet fraudsters, motivated by money and armed with sophisticated technology, pose an increased economic threat as they steal private data from companies…
UGUSTA, Maine - The head of the state police announced "modest" steps Thursday to bolster the task force that investigates one of Maine’s fastest-growing…
17 February 2005 - LAWFUEL - The Law News Network - The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced that the former…
Nicholas Lee Jacobsen, 22, pleaded guilty at 15 February in United States District Court in Los Angeles to gaining unauthorized access to a protected computer…
SAN FRANCISCO -- Richard Clarke, former special adviser to the president on cybersecurity, has this advice for Michael Chertoff, the new secretary of the…
You might think that you know how to protect yourself from phishing: Don't click the links in e-mail that purports to be from banks or other institutions. But…
Home computer users could be sued if they allow their computers to be taken over and used by hackers, legal representatives speaking at the RSA Conference in…
FIVE doctors convicted of downloading child porn are free to work in the NHS. Astonishingly four who were suspended by the General Medical Council have had the…
For almost a century, members of the Gambino crime family maintained a violent grip over New York as ruthless practitioners of murder, drug pushing,…
A Brazilian hacker has defaced the Web site of Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds," which is set to be released in cinemas this summer, according to a…
Microsoft, eBay and Visa have created a new organisation to deal with the increasing threat from phishing scams. The [Phish Report…
Kevin Mitnick, formerly one of the most famous U.S. hackers and now the head of a computer consulting company, held a press conference in Moscow on Sunday.…
14-year-old who used a computer worm to launch an attack against Microsoft's main Web site in August 2003 was sentenced in federal court on Friday 11 to three…