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Online coupons can be a convenient way to cut costs, but experts warn about potential fraud. NBC 5 reported that crooks sometimes create counterfeit coupons…
A security researcher has discovered two fairly serious flaws in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser and Mozilla's Firefox. Michal Zalewski, who posts to a…
Cyber criminals are stepping up their focus on the Middle East, as more people go online, experts warned this week. The alert follows the busting last week of…
A Princeton University computer science professor who bought several Sequoia electronic voting machines off the Internet claims he found no hardware security…
Hackers are no longer motivated by notoriety – it's now all about the money. Guillaume Lovet, Threat Response Team Leader at security firm Fortinet, identifies…
The online news site USA Voice isn’t going to win any kudos from media critics. Not for its “news” stories and not for its Fox News-style slogan, “USA Voice:…
Internet service provider ihug says customers targeted by a hacker were responsible for backing up their own sites because they were bound by the conditions of…
Police have registered criminal cases against the owners of two computer firms and their four salesmen were also arrested here in Clifton for defying the…
The head of Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency says that because of decades of faulty police work, crime kingpins have a one-in-20 risk of prison. Sir…
Hacking isn't a kid's game anymore. It's big business. Online black markets are flush with stolen credit card data, driver's license numbers, and malware, the…
Focus has once again fallen on the need to combat online fraud as a Bidorbuy seller made off with over R 100 000-00 from buyers who never received their goods.…
China has detained six men in their 20s for writing or profiting from a computer virus dubbed the "joss-stick burning panda" which has infected over a million…
US security company PandaLabs is warning PC users to be on guard against any romantic messages received by email as they may contain malicious code. The…
With the recent amendments being approved by the Cabinet, the Information Technology Act 2000 (The Act) is all set to silence critics with its new Avatar. The…
AT&T Inc. has created a Web site aimed at educating parents on how to protect their children from online and wireless security threats. The Web site is just…
The University of New Hampshire has unveiled a tool for gauging the level of threat any would-be attacker poses to the energy, emergency response or other…
The leader of a gang that committed what has been described as the Netherland's biggest cybercrime is appealing his sentence. The man, a 20 year old from Loon…
Santa Maria residents are targets of yet another scam. Letters are being sent through the mail about Irish lottery winnings. Scammers want you to pay $2,000 in…
The Laboratory of Information Security of the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova announces the 4th International Information Security Competition…
A U.S. federal jury convicted the former owner and president of ATE Tel Solutions Inc., a telecommunications and Internet service provider, on seven of nine…
Red-faced officials at Canada’s nuclear safety watchdog said they were probing how a hacker had managed to litter its official website with dozens of colour…
Fraud outstripped identity theft as the leading consumer complaint in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky for 2006, according to a new report by the…
Matthew Parker, from the technology security and risk services team, has passed the EC Council exam. An ethical hacker is a skilled IT professional who knows…
An initiative by Standard Bank to tighten the safety of online banking has failed, with fewer than one in seven customers bothering to use the security…
"Despite progress, greater efforts are needed in the fight against cybercrime." That's how the Business Software Alliance summarized a town meeting that the…
Commerce online has brought crime online. Law enforcement agencies have developed new methods and new relationships to catch the bad guys in cyberspace. Daniel…
After recent claims that Windows Vista packages provide enhanced levels of security, tests have been conducted to prove otherwise. The tough-testing Virus…
A heavy inflow of Internet traffic directed at root servers operated by the Department of Defense and ICANN caused plenty of headaches for administrators, but…
Last week, Click Forensics published a report claiming that the overall industry average click fraud rate for the fourth quarter of 2006 was 14.2% (see: Click…
One of the biggest security conferences in the world, The RSA Conference 2007, kicks off today in San Francisco. Security big wigs from industry and government…