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News just in from Canada confirms that database disasters are not just confined to UK government agencies, after sensitive patient information has been…
State police in Gettysburg say they are investigating a scam involving travelers checks. Police said there have been several incidents in the area in which…
According to a survey carried out on behalf of Cloudmark, consumer confidence in brands would be severely dented by a phishing attack. Banks are most at risk,…
While U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan engage the enemy with guns, tanks, airplanes and missiles, the American military is quietly fighting a much different…
Q. If my cable internet connection is on all the time, is my computer vulnerable to malicious interference from the internet while my computer is booting up…
Modern School teacher Firoz Bakht Ahmed has received calls from all over the world in the past two days from friends, acquaintances and relatives. And he is…
Less than two weeks after the death of Eva Burr's mother, an Internet scam artist has tried to tarnish her good name. Apparently hacking into an online guest…
A Manitowoc bank received hundreds of telephone calls Friday from customers worried about a scam targeting their accounts. Bank First National officials said…
While investigating a hack attempt, a security researcher from Cambridge University’s computer science department has stumbled on a way to use Google as a…
Three Bahrainis have been arrested for getting involved in an international telephone billing and bankcards hacking scheme. A hacker lured one of them through…
A 19-year-old from Uppsala, Sweden, has been found guilty on seven counts of unauthorized access to Swedish university servers and research computers. He is…
SaskTel says one of its computers that contains customer e-mail distribution lists was infected with a virus. The Crown-owned telecommunications corporation…
A Seminole County man is under arrest, accused of soliciting sex from a teen he met online. Orlando's new cybercrime office arrested Frederick Cwik, Jr., 40,…
UK Chancellor Alistair Darling managed to keep a straight face as he told the House of Commons that as terrifying as the loss of 25 million child benefit…
Shockwaves were sent through the IT world yesterday when it was revealed that the lone creator of an incredibly destructive and ingenious computer virus was in…
Damon Hacker knows better than anyone else the kind of electronic fingerprints we leave behind on a daily basis. Did you use a computer today? A cell phone? A…
Windows is the most used operating system in the world, but what about at UC Irvine? Take a look around at your next lecture, and you’ll see that Apple’s OS X…
A bipartisan bill that would impose harsher restrictions on cyberattacks and permit identity theft victims to seek financial restitution in federal court is on…
"Please notice that your VISA card is now disabled and you will not be able to use it. ... This is a security measure made by your bank. ..." That's the kind…
If you have a Windows computer, analysts say you should log onto microsoft's website and download their latest security fix in order to protect yourself from…
Germany is the land of ideas and innovations. Yet it is not only business competitors who may try to gain secret access to German expertise, it is also foreign…
Online shoppers' fears of being 'click pocketed' - becoming the victim of cyber fraud - is costing Britain's e-commerce sector £23 billion* a year, new…
Seagate is warning customers of its external hard drives that their bare drive may not be so bare after all -- it might have a Trojan hidden on it. The…
The shadowy hacker and malware hosting network that only recently fled Russia to set up operations in China has now pulled the plug there and vanished yet…
Microsoft has described the ease with which two officers from the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency managed to hack into Windows XP as both "enlightening and…
It's easy to see how visitors to Alicia Keys' MySpace page could have accidentally clicked on the wrong spot last week and gotten whisked off to a Chinese…
A Los Angeles man is facing up to 60 years in prison and fines of up to $1.75m (£839,000) after admitting to infecting at least 250,000 PCs with…
Beginning in March, 102 employees of the IRS received phone calls, purportedly from the computer help desk, requesting their user names and suggesting they…
A hacker pleaded guilty to infecting hundreds of thousands of computers with malware to steal money from Paypal accounts. He could spend 60 years in prison and…
A Swedish hacker tells how he infiltrated a global communications network used by scores of embassies over the world, using tools freely available on the…