Thanks to a joint effort between the FBI and Romanian police, 24 Romanians believed to be part of an organised cybercrime ring were arrested during the past week. Reports also state that the alleged ringleader, Romeo Chita, was arrested in the home

CA Internet Security Suite Plus 2008 - Techradar.com
Take one look at the box and you might think that Christmas has come early. Not only does CA Internet Security Suite Plus contain just about every type of security software you think you might need, it works on three PCs and promises to pay you up to

Save Write to Editor - Economic Times
NEW DELHI: Phishing is now spilling over to your mobile phone. The next time you receive an SMS from your mobile operator informing you about a service you have subscribed to and asking you to call a certain number to unsubscribe, beware, it can be a

NEW YORK — For private investigator Steven Rambam, the Internet is his most valuable tool in helping to find missing persons, cheating husbands and your competitor’s dirty secrets. Steven Rambam, director of investigative agency Pallorium, tells the

Just A Week After Release, Hackers Jailbreak iPhone 3G - dbtechno.com
Washington (dbTechno) - Just a week after the release of Apple s new iPhone 3G, hackers have already announced that the device has been pwned, as they have managed to jailbreak it. The international team of programmers, known as the iPhone

Phillip Torrone and Limor Fried have launched a series of videos that show people how to hack electronics. (Credit: Citizen Engineer) NEW YORK–Want to know how to build your own cell phone charger? How about putting an old-fashioned pay phone in

Security analysts have warned users of the Monster.com website of a phishing attack by Turkish hackers. Almost a year ago hackers stole the details of 1.3 million users from Monster.com . Even more recently a group used an identity harvesting tool to

SKOWHEGAN: Bank uncovers e-mail scam - MaineToday.com
SKOWHEGAN — Scam artists have been using a fraudulent e-mail letter to try to access customer accounts at Skowhegan Savings Bank, according to police and bank officials. The e-mail indicates that the bank is upgrading its security system, has

Romanian authorities arrest cybercrime suspects - ZDNet Blogs
Well, eight days, and a joint effort to help prevent phishing and two major arrests related to identity theft, and I feel like we ve made a decent attack on the identity theft culture. Score one for the good guys for once. Just a day after reading

The world of vishing - voice over IP phishing - Computer Weekly
The Voice over IP phishing scams are getting ever more imaginative. Last year I had to disconnect and ring the operator to break the connection to an overseas premium rate call when I accepted a reversed charges call after hearing a faint voice cry

Make My Day - American Reporter
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — It didn’t start in the computer world; it was a television commercial asking the question: “Is it real, or is it Memorex?” Could their cassette tapes so capture the sound of a live performance that the listener could not

eBay and PayPal Team up with Gmail to Fight Phishing - Yahoo Finance
New Protections Enable Gmail to Block Fraudulent eBay and PayPal E-mail SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–eBay and PayPal today announced a collaborative effort with Google s webmail service Gmail to better protect consumers against

Smartphone makers bullish despite iPhone 3G Hackers offer instant iPhone crack Jobs hints at 3G iPhone Anticipation mounts for 3G iPhone iPhone to drive smartphone sales in Asia Reports have emerged today that Apple s much-hyped iPhone 3G has been

New Zealand teen fined in Penn computer hack - Miami Herald
A New Zealand teenager who admitted to hacking into the University of Pennsylvania computer system was ordered Tuesday to pay more than $11,000 in fines but avoided a conviction so that he can help police solve computer crimes. The Feb. 23, 2006

Cybercrime: Teenage hacker in global scam discharged - Guardian Unlimited
A teenager from New Zealand who was accused of stealing millions of pounds has been discharged without a conviction, despite pleading guilty to hacking into computers around the world. Owen Thor Walker, 18, known online as AKILL, was ordered to pay

Hack a million systems - earn a job - Computerworld Australia
It has been a number of years since the fantasy that hackers will be offered a job by those who they hacked was even a potential reality, but there are reports that this might still be the case in New Zealand.

Hackers crack iBoot, dual-boot 1.x iPhone firmware - MacNN
Hackers have managed to penetrate to one of the deepest levels in the iPhone 3G’s software, according to claims. The makers of the PwnageTool say that in working on v2.0 of their software, they have managed to crack “iBoot,” the command line used to

Researchers trace structure of cybercrime gangs - TechWorld
That’s according to research from Finjan which found that the chain of command of a cybercrime gang is very similar to Mafia hierarchies. The report outlines a pyramid of hackers, data sellers, managers and malicious programmers, all working in a

A major job site is the latest phishing attack target. According to a McAfee Avert Labs blog, Monster.com was made to seem the source of phishing emails. The fake emails have subject headers like Monster customer service: important notice or

Read all ‘”security”‘ posts in News - Security - CNET News
A network administrator for the city of San Francisco has been arrested on charges of taking control of the city’s computer network and locking administrators out, according to the San Francisco Chronicle . Terry Childs, 43, was due to be arraigned

eBay and PayPal Team up with Gmail to Fight Phishing - Yahoo Finance
New Protections Enable Gmail to Block Fraudulent eBay and PayPal E-mail SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–eBay and PayPal today announced a collaborative effort with Google s webmail service Gmail to better protect consumers against

News - Security - CNET News
A network administrator for the city of San Francisco has been arrested on charges of taking control of the city’s computer network and locking administrators out, according to the San Francisco Chronicle . Terry Childs, 43, was due to be arraigned

Phishing fraud up by 182 per cent - Daily Telegraph
Fraudsters have been forced to change their tactics in a bid to get their hands on other people s money resulting in a sharp increase in the number of card cloning and phishing incidents. Figures from CIFAS, the UK s fraud prevention service

Secure Identity Systems Helps Financial Institutions Protect Integrity - PR Inside
- Secure Identity Systems Press contact: Gregory FCA Meredith Glanzmann, Senior Account Executive 610-642-8253, ext. 112 Meredith@GregoryFCA.com Phishing attacks aren’t causing problems for just consumers. They’re also destroying the integrity of

Bigger Phishers to Fry, Part 2: The Phuture of Phishing - E-Commerce Times
Phishing has plagued Internet users nearly as long as there’s been an Internet, but with more people moving online to do their banking and shopping, there’s more data out there than ever for phishers to get their hands on. They’re developing more

Finding the name behind the GMail address - ZDNet Blogs
Ah, this is a fun little trick. I m not sure if it represents a vulnerability, but certainly I expect Google will try to get rid of this feature. The SecuriTeam blog has reported that it is possible to expose the full name of the user who

Hackers are a skeptical bunch, but that doesn’t bother Dan Kaminsky , who got a lot of flack from his colleagues in the security research community after claiming to have discovered a critical bug in the Internet’s infrastructure. Kaminsky made

Syria software pirate lives by own code of ethics - Los Angeles Times
Abdul-Rahman Mahaini says he is an ethical software pirate. But if you try to deprive me, I will take it from you, he says. Abdul-Rahman Mahaini says he hacks into programs because U.S. sanctions block their sale in his country. But he is not

The Real iPhone Arrives - Forbes
The lines are shorter. The price is lower. The product is better. Yes, your iPhone is ready. Well, almost. The latest model of Apple’s (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) smart phone and digital media player hybrid went on sale at 8 a.m. Friday in U.S

Internet flaw left web traffic open to hackers - News.com.au
COMPUTER industry heavyweights are rushing to fix a flaw in the foundation of the internet that could allow hackers to control traffic on the worldwide web. Major software and hardware makers worked in secret for months to create a software “patch

Ameritrade Hack Settlement: $2 Per Victim, $1.8 Million for Lawyers - Wired
A proposed agreement to settle a class action lawsuit to compensate as many as 6.3 million TD Ameritrade customers whose data was stolen by hackers would cost the Nebraska online brokerage firm less than $2 per victim and at least $1.8 million in

The web is in good health - for now - Gulf News
It’s been a weird week on the web. On the good side, despite continuing worries of economic downturns and rising oil prices, the web and e-commerce in general seem to be doing fairly well, even right here in the UAE. While there are still people in

When hackers converge - Brisbane Times
WHAT happens when you take hundreds of developers, a sprinkling of computers, dollops of greasy food, no sleep - and add a generous helping of Doctor Who? It might sound like a formula for disaster rather than a recipe for success, but that didn’t

Review: Tap Tap Revenge for iPhone - Mac Central
It only makes sense that one of the most popular games to be developed for jailbroken iPhones would see life anew as an official App Store release. That s the story behind Tap Tap Revenge , the first offering from Tapulous, and which iPhone

Computer hackers: Internet flaw sparks biggest security fix in web - Guardian Unlimited
A flaw in the way the internet works has prompted the “largest security update” in the history of the web, and fears of millions of people remaining exposed to criminals and malicious hackers. Microsoft was among net companies yesterday which

Hugin reported that Paion AG announced that the acquisition of CeNeS Pharmaceuticals plc (CeNeS) by Paion is now effective and the Company owns 100% of CeNeS’ share capital. After the capital increase at Paion, which is part of the transaction, has

Getting hooked: Phishing, pharming and online threats - ZDNet
Sponsored: There’s no shortage of malicious code on the Internet. Agent Peterson of the Geek Squad offers some tips on how to protect yourself from viruses and spyware. The content for this video was sponsored and provided by Geek Squad

Hackers launch massive IFrame attack - Computerworld
Share Security management is the process of developing a comprehensive data protection plan. It takes into account all potential threats, the existing network environment, the future needs of the organization, and lays out a multi-tiered blueprint to

Tech Watch - August 2005 - Popular Mechanics
Remember Voyager 1? Launched in 1977, the trusty probe explored the outer planets of our solar system, and now it has passed a new mile marker. In May, NASA scientists announced that Voyager 1 had broken through the termination shock to the terminal

Symantec suspects bot in attacks on D-Link routers - Computerworld
Share Security management is the process of developing a comprehensive data protection plan. It takes into account all potential threats, the existing network environment, the future needs of the organization, and lays out a multi-tiered blueprint to

How To Write for the Web - Slate
If this is your introduction to the subject of pharm parties those alleged social gatherings where teenagers gather to swap psychoactive pharmaceuticals I suggest you first read the column I wrote last week criticizing a Page One, June 13

What’s Killing America’s Drug Users? - Slate
Like the kid with a mouthful of loose teeth won’t stop believing in the tooth fairy, the press just can’t release itself from the fantasy of “pharm parties.” Since the middle of the decade, scores of news organizations major and minor have run

Data Security Summary - January to June 2005 - F-Secure
Despite the efforts of companies like F-Secure to eradicate spam from email servers and private mailboxes, the volumes continued to rise in the first half of 2005. Indeed, spam accounts for 85 percent of mail traffic globally, so concerted efforts on

ActiveX Controls - Download.com
These controls link to any object–traditionally dynamic content such as tables and buttons that react to mouse clicks–embedded within a Web page. Although ActiveX controls help Web pages spring to life, malicious programmers can easily use them as

Defense in Depth - CNET News
A group including Equifax, Google, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, and PayPal, plus nine leaders in the technology community announced on Monday the creation of the Information Card Foundation (ICF) with the goal of increasing awareness of the use of

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is so high style and profile that he’s prime pickings for a high-tech hoaxster, defense lawyers argue in legal papers trying to bar potentially explosive text messages from court. The allegedly incriminating messages

Massive Internet security flaw uncovered - Los Angeles Times
Security researchers on Tuesday said they had discovered an enormous flaw that could let hackers steer most people using corporate computer networks to malicious websites of their own devising. For bad news, that’s pretty impressive. But there are

Fix found for net security flaw - BBC News
The flaw, discovered by accident, would allow criminals to redirect users to fake webpages, even if they typed the correct address into a browser. Internet giants such as Microsoft are now distributing the security patch. Security expert Dan Kaminsky

Freebie-software site Giveaway of the Day serves up another gem today in the form of A-one DVD Tools, which includes separate utilities for copying and ripping DVDs. It normally sells for $51.95, but if you download and install it before midnight

Calyx in major security deal with Irish Stock Exchange - Silicon Republic
The Calyx Group has deployed an email and website security system for the Irish Stock Exchange that will guarantee the flow of information free from the intrusion of spam or spyware. Since 1793 the Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) has been providing for

Facebook under attack: The spam and phishing threat - Silicon.com
The popular social-networking site Facebook is coming under increased attack by spammers and phishers, the company’s security chief has revealed. Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe conference in London, Max Kelly said the attacks have become serious

Banks are liable for phishing attacks on customers, says German court - Computer Weekly
A German court has ruled that banks are liable for phishing attacks on customers, reports Spiegel . A judgment of the Amtsgericht (lowest court) at Wiesloch says the banks are responsible for damages arising from unauthorised interception of

Make My Day - American Reporter
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — It didn’t start in the computer world; it was a television commercial asking the question: “Is it real, or is it Memorex?” Could their cassette tapes so capture the sound of a live performance that the listener could not

Firefox takes aim at phishers - Silicon.com
An upcoming version of Firefox will include protection against phishing scams, using technology that might come from Google. The phishing shield is a key new security feature planned for Firefox 2, slated for release in the third quarter of this year

A new type of phishing - KSFY.com
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Bigger Phishers to Fry, Part 1: Calling the Pros - Linux Insider
As phishers get more sophisticated and target larger numbers of Internet users, those who work to thwart them also are honing their skills. It’s turning into a cat-and-mouse game with the stakes growing higher every day. For security experts, the

Internet Explorer 7 Support - Microsoft PressPass
We’ve provided a number of support and feedback options to help make your Internet Explorer 7 experience more enjoyable. Make sure you check out the below options. Support for Internet Explorer 7 installation and set-up is available via the phone

MySpace worm goes phishing - Silicon.com
A malicious video on MySpace.com pages changes people’s profiles when played, embedding itself and adding links to fraudulent websites, experts have warned. The video is a rigged QuickTime file that exploits a MySpace vulnerability and support for