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26-year-old Santiago Garrido used a computer worm to launch Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks after he was expelled from the popular "Hispano" IRC…
Experts at SophosLabs™, Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers, have warned users not to panic over the threat posed by the…
Experts at SophosLabs™, Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers, have reminded organizations of the threat posed by malware as news…
So how was it for you? Computer security experts have warned that a malicious computer worm, dubbed "Kama Sutra," was set to wreak havoc this Friday, February…
Maybe this is where it starts to change. Two of the world's largest e-mail providers, America Online Inc. and Yahoo Inc., have said that they will soon start…
The e-Crime Congress 2006 will seek to challenge conventional attitudes on e-Crime and examine how business, government and law enforcement can continue to…
Effective online fraud prevention often involves several technologies, each targeted towards a specific fraud indicator. However, in the arsenal of online…
Internet users believe they are more likely to be victims of a cybercrime than a physical one in the coming year, according to a recent survey. This growing…
The Windows Metafile (WMF) bug that caused users -- and Microsoft -- so much grief in December and January spread like it did because Russian hackers sold an…
The Kama Sutra is giving computer professionals across the world sleepless nights. But not in the way you think. A computer virus, scheduled to strike on…
In January, Sdbot.ftp was the malware most frequently detected by Panda ActiveScan, the free online antivirus solution. In addition to this malicious code,…
Australian IT security professionals have so far reported few problems from the so-called Kama Sutra worm, which was due to begin overwriting files on infected…
Congressional human rights advocates Wednesday hammered four Internet giants -- Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco Systems -- for helping Chinese authorities…
Federal prosecutors Wednesday charged 19 members of an alleged software- and movie-pirating ring with stealing more than $6.5 million in copyrighted material.…
Tomorrow is D-Day for a dangerous computer virus which has spread throughout the world via email and is programmed to destroy PC files on February 3. Email…
A London-based Israeli couple at the centre of one of the world's largest industrial espionage and computer hacking scandals have been extradited to Israel to…
A fast-spreading e-mail worm is raising alarms because its sole purpose is to obliterate the everyday working documents widely used by consumers, students and…
A Kama Sutra computer virus could delete millions of everyday files on PCs across the world, experts warn. The worm was nicknamed after the love-making bible…
The popular Winamp music player suffers from a zero-day vulnerability that attackers are already exploiting, a security company warned Monday. A patch is not…
A group of security vendors teamed up Monday to establish industry standards for identifying spyware and testing methods for eradicating it as there’s growing…
A US federal judge has sentenced a convicted hacker known as "illwill" to two years in prison for selling the code for Microsoft's closely-guarded Windows…
A year ago Jacqui Rogers, a retiree in southern Oregon who dabbles in vintage costume jewelry, went on eBay and bought 10 butterfly brooches made by Weiss, a…
Internet researchers at Harvard and Oxford universities said on Tuesday they are seeking to enlist Web users in a program to name and shame suppliers of…
Security analysts are warning computer users about a new and potentially destructive Internet worm that can obliterate important documents. The worm, called…
Harvard University's Berkman Center and the Oxford Internet Institute have launched a "Neighborhood Watch" initiative against spyware and other malicious…
The United States, with anti-spam laws in place, still tops the "Dirty Dozen" list of countries that spew the most unsolicited e-mail, a new survey says.…
A boffin at Cambridge University says that the Voice over IP system used by Skype is a brilliant tool if you want to carry out denial-of-service attacks. Jon…
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Computer Security Institute (CSI) announced today the results of its 10th annual Computer Crime and Security Survey: average cybercrime…
Google, the world's most popular Internet search engine, yesterday launched a Chinese-language service that will be stripped of content deemed offensive or…
With help from Microsoft, Washington state filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a company that allegedly used spam and misleading advertising to frighten users…