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A study released by security firm NCC reveals the origins of most hacking operations and the estimated damages they cause to the global economy each year.
The numbers show that hackers from the UK cost the global economy over $2 billion (1.4 billion EUR) in the year that passed, counting a total of 23 million hack a... |
2 February 2012
09:38 GMT |
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Attorney General Kamala D. Harris recently presented the California Department of Justice’s new unit, purposed to investigate and prosecute technology crimes. The eCrime Unit will rely on the latest innovations to make sure the number of cyberfraud incidents will drop.
“Today's criminals increasingl... |
15 December 2011
05:12 GMT |
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On November 10, the world found out that the FBI arrested six Estonians for allegedly running the largest, most sophisticated cybercriminal scheme the world has ever seen so far. After two years of intense investigations conducted by the FBI in collaboration with Trend Micro, the operation was shut down, but the da... |
2 December 2011
13:51 GMT |
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Cyberattacks should be taken more seriously by state representatives, in the opinion of Michael Chertoff, former secretary at the US Department of Homeland Security. Once a judge on the United States Court of Appeals, Chertoff is now the managing principal of a private security consultancy called the Cher... |
6 September 2011
06:15 GMT |
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The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) claims that 2010 was the second most busiest year in history when it comes to the number of received complaints, however, it scored lower than 2009.In its annual Internet crime report [pdf], the center said the total number of complaints last year counted 303,809, ... |
25 February 2011
09:55 GMT |
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Security researchers from Panda Security who recently analyzed the state of the cybercriminal market, concluded that it is more active then ever and offers a wide variety of services and price plans.Stolen credit card information is the most common good sold and bought on the undeground market, primarily because it i... |
20 January 2011
09:55 GMT |
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Swinburne University offers the first postgraduate course in eForensics, as a response to the necessity of having professionals with the skills necessary to stop cybercrime and cyber-misconduct.As almost every one uses computers nowadays, whether it is at work or at home, the rate of cybercrime in increasing, and peo... |
5 November 2010
05:41 GMT |
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While trying to outline the necessity of specialized police forces like the PCeU, Metropolitan Police Service Commissioner Sir Paul Robert Stephenson revealed that traditional organized UK crime gangs are starting to get involved in e-crimes.A lot of people feel that uniformed policing should be protected during the ... |
4 October 2010
10:24 GMT |
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The Romanian authorities are undergoing a massive effort to dismantle cybercriminal groups operating in the country. During the last ten days, two series of arrests and raids related to credit-card fraud were performed in major Romanian cities. On September 9, the Romanian Direction for Investigating Organized Crime... |
18 September 2009
08:49 GMT |
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The down economy will only serve to fuel the growth of cybercrime, Microsoft warns. According to Roger Halbheer, chief security advisor of Microsoft EMEA, while the global economic crisis can contribute decisively to legitimate enterprises failing, it will also provide the fertile soil for cybercriminals to flourish.... |
23 April 2009
10:13 GMT |
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It looks like crybecriminal organizations everywhere are receiving blow after blow. After having lost two of their major hosting providers in the U.S., online crooks are about to lose their favorite domain registrar, too. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) announced that ending the Registrar ... |
13 November 2008
05:47 GMT |
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Security researchers, anti-spam groups and the whole security community in general were taken by surprise yesterday when reports of a sudden drop in junk mail activity started flowing in. This was the result of ISPs depeering McColo Corp., a U.S. based company offering web hosting services to many international cyber... |
12 November 2008
05:48 GMT |
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The Estonian-based domain registrar EstDomains was outed a long time ago by numerous security groups for providing domain registration services to cyber-criminals. An official letter sent a few days ago by Stacy K. Burnette, Director of Contractual Compliance at ICANN, informs the President of EstDomains Inc., Vladim... |
29 October 2008
09:10 GMT |
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Following a collaborated effort from security researchers, anti-spam groups and online media to disclose the connection between cyber criminal groups and Intercage Inc., all its ISPs were pressured by bad publicity or their own clients to sever ties with the California based company. Their last remaining ISP, Pacific... |
23 September 2008
06:34 GMT |
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Microsoft is little shy of getting into the front lines in the fight against cybercrime. Illustrative examples in this case are the company's Internet Safety Enforcement Team as well as the Law Enforcement Technology 2008 conference. LE Tech 2008, a three-day event hosted by the Redmond company, has seen approxi... |
29 April 2008
05:59 GMT |
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After seeing out how several warnings sent to a number of countries that have been the most productive in phishing attacks hit a brick wall, eBay burst and warned that there must be something more that can be done to stop fraudsters from targeting auction sites. Alongside Romania, which was nominated as having the bi... |
11 March 2008
13:06 GMT |
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