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ISLAMABAD: The world famous Nigerian Advance fee fraud known as ‘419 Scam’, used to send e-mails or postal letters offering to move a billion of US dollar…
**Decision of the Court : ** Partial confirmation of Decision of First Instance Court of Paris 8 July, 2005 **Report of the Dispute : ** The Court rules on a…
It’s getting so you can’t stick your head out onto the Internet anymore without someone trying to sell you something, infect your computer with viruses or…
Online crime in the US alone caused $67.2bn in damages last year, according to a survey conducted by the FBI. The findings were based on a poll of 2,066…
A 20-year-old accused of using hundreds of thousands of hijacked computers, or "bot nets," to damage systems and send massive waves of spam across the…
A nonprofit technology group asked the Federal Trade Commission on Monday to stop a software developer from allowing "deceptive and unfair" methods in…
The chief executive of an Internet portal at the center of a widening securities fraud investigation denied allegations Sunday that he violated securities…
You have probably heard about identity theft, in which people steal other people's personal information to use for illegal purposes. In a new scheme called…
A 19-year-old Spanish hacker broke into a U.S. Navy database, jeopardizing the security of a nuclear submarine maintenance facility in California. The hacker…
Finnish security outfit F-Secure has had to issue a security warning about its own products. In a security bulletin here, F-Secure said a flaw in its software…
Sahil Gupta, the second man charged over the Telecom voicemail hacking incident in April, walked free from an Auckland court last week. Gupta was charged along…
Microsoft Corp. has commended the Bulgarian law-enforcement National Services to Combat Organized Crime (NSCOC) agency for investigations leading to the arrest…
The folks at the new regional computer forensics lab in Centennial say they're going to take a byte out of crime. They led journalists on a tour of the new…
The FBI reports that 9 out of 10 organizations in the country are victims of some sort of computer security incident, and one-fifth are hit more than 20 times…
Microsoft said Tuesday that under certain circumstances, attackers could exploit an anomaly in how Windows 2000, XP and Windows 2003 systems establish wireless…
Microsoft security expert has denied a recent security hole in Windows was in fact a secret backdoor introduced by the software giant to give it immediate…
Less than 1 percent of new threats detected in 2005 by PandaLabs were viruses, which confirms the decrease in the number of viruses compared to other types of…
Windows security is once again in the spotlight, this time with a vulnerability in wireless laptop software stealing some of the limelight at an annual US…
Four times in five weeks, someone went phishing for information from Credit Union 1 members. It's likely that thousands of Alaskans received e-mail messages…
Anyone accessing the Web sites for the cities of El Cerrito, Albany or Alameda overnight saw a cryptic message instead of the usual home pages. The message…
A new year and an old story: Americans fall prey to data theft. A new year and another old story: Congress does nothing about it, not even requiring companies…
In our computerized society, everyday there are threats lurking, hidden, just waiting to catch innocent surfers,in a trap that will cost them dearly, talk here…
It’s a well known fact that during the past few years, most tragic events that unfolded all over the world have been used by hackers or other types of crooks…
Apple has confirmed that the new mini store feature introduced in the latest iTunes update is not spyware and it does not collect any information from a Mac or…
Despite investing in a variety of security technologies, enterprises continue to suffer network attacks at the hands of malware writers and inside operatives,…
Responding to the rising cybercrime threat, the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday unveiled an online tool designed to help consumers avoid becoming victims…
H&R Block (NYSE: HRB) sent out an unwelcome promotional gift over the holidays -- free tax preparation software. The objectionable surprise wasn't the contents…
Numerous additional problems with Windows' handling of .wmf format files have been identified, according to reports. Submissions to the bugtraq mailing list…
Just before New Year's, some Europeans received a link from the buddy list in their MSN Instant Messenger software to a purported funny Christmas picture. The…
The Sober worm, which was due to activate last Thursday, has stopped spreading and its author has held back from uploading malware onto any machines. Sober was…