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A Nashville woman who was subject of a Dateline NBC story accusing her in an Internet adoption scam, pleaded guilty to identity theft Thursday. Davidson County…
Executives at eBay Inc. are touting security as their top priority in 2007 after an internal survey showed that online scammers may be denting the company‘s…
A member of a business group behind copy-protection software for next-generation D-V-Ds says it is investigating reports that hackers found a way to circumvent…
A team of University of Virginia researchers and students has created a specialized Web-based tool that allows police to easily analyze crimes in their…
Alongside the basic new year's resolutions, vow to keep your personal computer fast and clean this year. That includes keeping your personal information from…
Virus programmers seem to know no limits when it comes to creative ways of making the Internet unsafe. Rootkits, originally programmes designed to help…
With computer viruses and phishing having evolved to organized crime practiced by well-paid hackers who siphon off and then sell your vital information, it's…
Email inboxes are being clogged with what seems like a huge increase in unwanted spam messages. Consumers may wonder where all these messages could be coming…
Data collected by SonicWALL, Inc. from its SMARTLABS network of over one million email users showed increased convergence in the 2006 malware ecosystem, with…
Fraudsters of cyberspace have reared its ugly head, the first of its kind this year, by launching a phishing attack on the website of Ahmedabad-based UTI Bank,…
A Hortonville woman who thought she was helping out a friend she met on the Internet says she's out thousands of dollars. The woman, who didn't want to be…
I will give everyone and the banks in Somerset the word to the wise. If your running a local on-line business or even outside business be careful of scams…
PayPal is beta testing a new tool to help keep user accounts secure. The PayPal Security Key is a small electronic device that account-holders may order from…
The beginning of the new year is the ideal time to make resolutions which should also include your Internet habits. Listed below are a number of suggestions…
You probably realized pretty quickly that you didn't really win $20 million in the Rainbow Lotto International Sweepstakes. And hopefully, you hit "delete"…
The Defense Department continues to battle increasingly sophisticated attacks against its information systems and networks, including significant and…
A Peterborough woman thought she was getting a great deal when she saw an online ad for a purebred female Maltese puppy. She had to pay only $350 shipping for…
An industry body that represents large corporations has criticised Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) for its lack of openness in working with UK…
The best thing you can do today: Search Google on “Internet Defender” and click on its Microsoft site. Here you download the final version of a Microsoft…
Internet Explorer was unsafe to use for over three-quarters of the year, according to a security researcher. Research carried out by Brian Krebs found that for…
Since anti-phishing measures can involve analyzing the content of a page to determine if it is a phish or not, some criminals have shifted to Flash to evade…
A third monthlong parade of security flaw releases has kicked off, this time focused on Macs. But some are questioning the purpose of such campaigns. Two bug…
A Sewickley Township woman lost more than $1,000 to scammers after police say she responded to a bogus e-mail and released her debit card account number.…
What kinds of security attacks should you worry about in 2007? Will companies that adopt environmentally friendly processes find greener pastures? Will…
There ought to be a special place in hell for the perpetrators of Internet scams that slip unbidden into our e-mail inboxes. Failing that, we’d like to see…
A Finnish computer security firm yesterday warned of a so-called email worm called Luder-A or Tibs.jy that is spread with a new year's greeting. The worm has…
E-mails promising a refund from the Internal Revenue Service are as bogus as a three dollar bill, the taxman warns. In the latest Internet scam,…
A computer hacker claims to have broken the AACS (Advanced Access Content System) encryption specification used to control unauthorized copying on HD-DVD and…
A 39-year-old Lansing man has been charged in connection with an Internet scam that authorities say might have defrauded hundreds of people across the country…
As technology all around us continues to change, so do the methods of criminals. Now one of our newly elected officials wants to make sure our laws are…