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July 22, 2004 · The Inquirer
Microsoft to help FBI track cybercrime phelons down

A CYBER FORENSIC organisation founded by the FBI and universities is to receive a grant in $46,000 from Microsoft and a loan of a software analyst to…

July 22, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Man forced to plead guilty to possessing child porn

We write and publish stories on child porn. We speak about monsters that abuse children having sex with them, making, selling their images, videos and etc. The…

July 21, 2004 · the c|net News.com
The new face of cybercrime

You once could explain away Internet attacks as destruction for destruction's sake. But many of the juvenile delinquents of the 1990s have since graduated from…

July 21, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
PHRACK #62 has been released !

**2004/07/13 - world best known online hacker's magazine presents :** #62 Contents: Introduction (.txt) *Phrack Staff* Loopback (.txt) *Phrack Staff* Linenoise…

July 21, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
British Telecom Technology Blocks Online Pornography

**British Telecom says it has blocked 250,000 attempts to access hardcore child pornography sites -- some 10,000 a day -- since it went online with new…

July 21, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Odessa carders are still under investigation

Plastic cards market grows ever-increasingly. Average pace of increase is 20-22% annually. The boom appeared after banks launched so-called salary projects…

July 20, 2004 · The Age
Cyberterrorism: fear factor

For two months during 2000 he pumped hundreds of thousands of litres of raw sewage into public waterways north of Maroochydore. Engineer Vitek Boden, who had…

July 20, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
New breed of cyber criminals

WWW became a field of rapidly growing e-business, a sphere of industrial sales and purchases, an international market ground where huge money circulates. The…

July 19, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Ukraine to protect children from porn

Yesterday, the Ministry for Family, Children and Youth Affairs of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Union of Young People Deputies (UUYPD) in the frames of project for…

July 17, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Patriot Act used to investigate and convict couple in child pornography case

In his remarks to Congress, Attorney General John Ashcroft detailed how the Patriot Act was used to investigate a child pornography case. In his testimony…

July 16, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russian piracy inflicts $1 billion damage

As it is well-known, a problem of intellectual property rights protection is the sticking point between Russia and the US. This pointed question was discussed…

July 16, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Problems of Combating Computer Crimes and Cyber Terrorism

New opportunities offered by the Internet transformed many legal forms of activity and through cutting down terms, simplified procedures of arranging deals and…

July 15, 2004 · mlive.com
Child porn case: city manager charged

BELDING -- Alison Pasch is sickened by allegations that Belding City Manager Mike Wood was looking at child pornography while he was supposed to be running the…

July 15, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Fighting cyberterrorism: expert's opinion

Alexei Chistyakov, Head of the World Anticriminal and Antiterrorist Forum in Ukraine, was interviewed by CCRC. "International terrorism is put as one of main…

July 15, 2004 · The Guardian
Police arrest 45 over child porn

Police in Greater Manchester yesterday arrested 45 people suspected of downloading pornographic images of children from the internet. The arrests followed…

July 14, 2004 · Silicon.com
Five million emails take down website...

An aggrieved teenager, sacked from his £120-per-week job, has taken revenge on his bosses by bombarding them with five million emails, effectively crippling…

July 14, 2004 · Crime Library
JonBenet Ramsey - Exclusive Interview With Stephen Singular

Stephen Singular is a highly regarded journalist and freelance writer. Apart from his book Presumed Guilty -- An Investigation into the JonBenet Ramsey Case,…

July 14, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer crimes in Ukraine

According to the Information Technologies Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, 6% of total computer crimes were registered in 2001, 36%…

July 13, 2004 · News Today
SMS spoofing - new lingo in cybercrime

'You have flunked'. The SMS was enough to unnerve not only Ram, an engineering student, but also his entire family. But the panic was soon found to be…

July 13, 2004 · Interfax
Chinese hackers advertise made-to-order virus service

Rising, one of China's leading anti-virus software firms, recently discovered that Chinese hackers had opened a new website offering a made-to-order virus…

July 13, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Alleged hacker is Microsoft insider

A man charged with hacking into search system company AltaVista's computer networks about two years ago is now employed by Microsoft Corp, reportedly working…

July 13, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Computer crime: expert's opinion

Development of scientific progress related to introduction of modern information technologies led to appearance of new kinds of crimes as illegal infringement…

July 12, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Nebraska man arrested and charged with the manufacture of child pornography

Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning announced the arrest of Jeffery D. Meyers, a 36 year old foster parent. Meyers has been charged on ten counts including…

July 12, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russia is going to outlaw spam

More than 99% of all websites linked in spam messages are based in China, South Korea, the US, Russia and Brazil, a new survey of Commtouch, a company engaged…

July 10, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
South Korea to create unit fighting cybercrime

South Korean National Police Department will create a new unit of computer anti-terror by the end of this year. Police management came to the necessity of such…

July 9, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Spam on the rise

Today spam is about 70% of all emails in the world. These data are given by American company MessageLab involved in developing of program-filters. The volume…

July 8, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Sexual abuse online

According to Washington ProFile, every fifth under age user of the Internet runs the risk of online sexual abuse. These statistics are given in the report of…

July 7, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Great Britain: A new law on cybercrime is being elaborated

The threats facing Britain's Internet-enabled companies and consumers are so great that new laws are needed to fight the problem, and fix the mistakes made by…

July 6, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
San Jose Police Seek Help in Identifying Perp

Robert Martin Brown, a 50 year old Newark man, was arrested by the San Jose police on suspicion of sending sexually graphic material over the Internet to an…

July 5, 2004 · Computer Crime Research Center
Russian police rounds up an organized criminal group

July 28, 2004 officers of Russian cyber police (Department K of the Ministry of Internal Affairs) nipped in the bud activities of a big organized criminal…