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India is pretty low down on the totem pole for cyber crimes: way behind the malicious, crooked and cross-wired geeks in the US, China and Europe. A research by…
The owner of three Internet-based companies has pleaded guilty in the southern Ohio division of U.S. District Court to claims that he lied to investors about…
The New Zealand Customs Service is warning people who have bought goods over the internet about a new email scam. The scam emails are sent to Hotmail accounts…
The FBI and the greeting card industry are warning people of fraudulent emails that claim to contain an electronic greeting card from an anonymous individual,…
Police have arrested eight people over a HK$5 million internet scam that made use of international e-auction platform eBay to cheat would-be buyers all over…
Police have predicted that scams using spy software downloaded from the Internet will become the ‘cybercrime of the future’. Supt Jerome Hardenberg, of Western…
For months now, the feds have said organized crime was moving into the realm of cybercrime, using hackers to run scams and break into systems. But Assistant…
Users who visit malicious Web sites frequently (and unknowingly) arrive via spam or phishing e-mails. Once there, complex infection mechanisms rapidly spread…
The black market for software nasties like viruses and spyware has grown hugely in recent years. But a worrying new discovery by a web security specialist…
If you have e-mail, then you've probably received a greeting card in your in-box within the last month. Don't open it! Internet spammers have launched an…
The FBI is warning the public against three separate Internet scams that continue to flourish through spam e-mails. The warning comes after the FBI's Internet…
Thailand’s information and communications technology ministry site was sabotaged yesterday. A hacker posted a picture of a, “smiling Thaksin Shinawatra and…
Hillsborough Township police are warning residents about several reports of attempted fraud over the Internet, in which victims received packages with checks…
Chinese hackers have sent e-mails to the Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) local branches and other recipients in the name of the DPP chairman with a trojan…
It is very easy to know when Pahooka.A has infected a computer. Once run, it replaces the computer’s desktop wallpaper with a multicolored star on a blue…
A hacker has accessed two University of Michigan databases containing student information, including names, addresses and some Social Security numbers, a…
A car buying scam could affect local residents. This week a Waverly resident learned she had almost been scammed, possibly by an overseas resident, when the…
According to Celebslam.com, someone hacked into Lindsay Lohan's computer and stole nude photos that were taken of her by ex-boyfriend Calum Best. Lindsay is…
Web shoppers have a need for speed. They've gobbled up broadband connections, and they're less patient in poking around sites that they perceive as wasting…
We have a Your Stories Alert related to electronic greeting cards. The FBI says they've been receiving reports of fraud linked to e-cards and online postcards,…
Reggie Kinser just wanted to sell a used piece of exercise equipment. He ended up getting caught in bizarre attempt by someone to scam him out of thousands of…
The Internal Revenue Service is warning Iowans about Internet “phishing” scams currently hitting the area in which fraudulent e-mails are sent that appear to…
It’s an old scam, with a new look, and people are falling for it. Con artists are now taking advantage of you as you try to add a fluffy friend to the family.…
Who are we? We’re the winners—America loves a winner. In America there are winners, and everybody else. Remember that old saying, "It’s not if you win or lose,…
When phishers successfully duped several business executives last month by it took the problem of cybercrime to a whole new level. When phishers successfully…
Hackers raided a poorly secured Western Union database and stole the personal data of more than 20,000 customers, including 1,300 New Yorkers, the…
A member of the Doom9 Forum known only as "Divine Tao" claims to have defeated Microsoft's Digital Rights Management (DRM) platform for securing the…
Cybercrime, like every digital industry, is outsourcing. Though the U.S. still produces more malware, spam and viruses than any country in the world, illicit…
A computer virus has claimed that 'Harry Potter is dead'. Hackers have disguised the PC worm as a file called 'HarryPotter-TheDeathlyHallows.doc', the title of…
I met Cresta Pillsbury, Director of Business Development for HACKER SAFE, at Affiliate Summit earlier this week. She mentioned how HACKER SAFE had created…