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In an advisory on its Web site, Microsoft Corp has warned against a new virus that exploits a vulnerability in its PowerPoint presentation software, allowing…
Despite more than five million unique firewall events that occurred each day --including 128,000 that made it past the network firewalls-- not a single…
Fighting cybercrime requires an Enron-like scandal to force the hand of legislators, the FBI argued Friday. Only after such an event could the necessary…
"FBI agents today arrested Steven Rambam, the owner of a company that bills itself as the largest privately held online investigative service in the United…
With 63 million American adults banking online and millions falling victim to identity theft, GuardID Systems, a San Mateo, Calif. startup, forecasts shipping…
Security firms are in a flap again over the latest virus to attack a Microsoft Office program. This time the virus is concealed in a malicious PowerPoint…
The International Monetary Fund has warned of a jump in the number of fraudulent email and communication claiming to be from or affiliated with the global…
With the absence of widespread virus alerts, the first six months of 2006 has seemingly been a relatively quiet period, the Computer Crime Research Center…
Although many of us here at BloggingStocks.com have written before on the threat click fraud is having -- and will continue to have -- on Google and others…
SecureWorks, a leading Managed IT Security Services Provider, announced that it has seen a dramatic increase in the number of hacker attacks attempted against…
An Afton man has been arrested in connection with a counterfeit money crime that occurred last October. Kenneth Richard Harrison, 44, of Montgomery Road in…
A security researcher has created a new malware search Web site using Google's SOAP API and released it to the Web community. H.D. Moore, creator of the…
At first, the Ross family thought they were lucky. Now they realize they've lost $980 to a Canadian lottery scam. Raymond Ross received a notice in the mail…
A Conservative peer's attempt to amend a law that could criminalise IT professionals has failed. The Earl of Northesk's attempt to introduce amendments to the…
The New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) has launched an inquiry into drivers using the Internet to trade demerit points, to avoid losing their…
Companies and organizations continue to lose money because of virus attacks and other computer network breaches, but the losses have declined due to improved…
The Internal Revenue Service is warning computer users about bogus e-mails claiming to be from the federal tax agency and asking for personal financial…
On the surface, the results of the 11th annual CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey are positive, with fewer companies reporting financial loss from data…
Computers and networks, and the degree to which we rely on them, have changed almost beyond recognition since 1990, but the framework of the Act remains…
Secure Computing Corporation, the experts in securing connections between people, applications and networks, have warned that familiar phishing attacks have…
Currently there are some 694-million people worldwide, 152-million right here in the United States that use the internet. Each of those people is at risk of…
Microsoft Corp. plans to give a hacker conference in Asia an inside look at new security features on Windows Vista later this year, the organizer of the event…
South African banks are flouting the country's Electronic Communication Transaction (ECT) Act - legislated to tackle cyber crime - by disclaiming liability…
McAfee Inc., the global leader in intrusion prevention and security risk management, today announced findings from new research which shows that Europe’s…
Computer users in Thailand and other Asian countries have been warned of 26 computer virus strains spreading across the region via electronic mails (e-mails),…
Court documents filed at the U.S. District Court in Washington have revealed that a U.S. government consultant used software programs found on the Internet to…
Pauline Reich is as smart as she looks in black with a string of pearls. A late starter in some respects -- she did not graduate as a lawyer until she was…
The federal computer crime unit registered a 45 percent increase in the amount of internet-based crimes last year compared with 2004. A large majority of the…
A Scot has been arrested in connection with a virus that infected thousands of computers worldwide. Matthew Anderson, 28, was picked up by police on Tuesday as…
Remember Mafiaboy, the 13-year-old Montreal kid who took out some of the corporate world’s biggest Web sites a couple of years ago? Not long ago, I found him…