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Mayor of New Jersey town arrested on hacking and conspiracy charges

The mayor of West New York, New Jersey, was arrested together with his son on Thursday, for allegedly hacking into a website that criticized him and his administration.

By Lucian Constantin | 25 May, 2012 15:45

Tags: cybercrime, Access control and authentication, data breach, Criminal, legal, intrusion, security

Bug bounty hunters reveal eight vulnerabilities in Google services

Security researchers unveiled eight vulnerabilities in Google services during the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam on Thursday -- but they claim to have discovered more than 100 such bugs over the past few months.

By Loek Essers | 24 May, 2012 12:56

Tags: Hack In The Box, Exploits / vulnerabilities, malware, Desktop security, security, Google, HITB

McAfee reports big spike in malware

PC malware had its "busiest quarter in recent history," according to McAfee's quarterly security report released Wednesday.

By Cameron Scott | 23 May, 2012 20:08

Tags: mobile security, malware, Exploits / vulnerabilities, security, Apple, Google, mcafee

Bredolab botnet author sentenced to 4 years in prison in Armenia

The creator of the Bredolab malware received a four-year prison sentence in Armenia on Monday for using his botnet to launch DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks that damaged multiple computer systems owned by private individuals and organizations.

By Lucian Constantin | 23 May, 2012 15:50

Tags: security, malware, legal, cybercrime

Night Dragon brings security vulnerabilities into the boardroom

A hacking operation dubbed ‘Night Dragon’ has targeted energy utilities, using tried-and-tested intrusion methods to steal intellectual property related to oil field exploration and bidding plans, according to security company McAfee.

By Georgina Swan | 11 February, 2011 10:06

Tags: China, energy, gas, intellectual property, mcafee, Night Dragon, Oil, security, vulnerability

Protect your laptop

Laptops can be stolen. Neoflyer asked the PCWorld.com Answer Line forum for tips on protecting them.

By Lincoln Spector | 14 December, 2010 02:34

Tags: backup, cybercrime, hardware systems, laptop accessories, laptops, legal, software, Utilities

Freed journalist tricked captors into Twitter access

A Japanese journalist freed over the weekend by captors in Afghanistan managed to send two Twitter messages before his release while teaching a captor how to access the Internet on a new cell phone, he said Tuesday.

By Martyn Williams | 08 September, 2010 04:25

Tags: Carriers, internet, Internet-based applications and services, mobile, social media, Telecommunication, twitter

Women did well on Defcon social engineering test

Of the 135 people Fortune 500 employees targeted by social engineering hackers in a recent contest only five of them refused to give up any corporate information whatsoever. And guess what? All five were women.

By Robert McMillan | 06 September, 2010 05:34

Tags: Cisco Systems, Defcon, Defcon 2010, security, social engineering, women in it

Nigerian advance-fee scammer gets 12 years

A Nigerian man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for sending out fraudulent e-mails offering victims big bucks in exchange for moving cash to the United States.

By Robert McMillan | 04 September, 2010 04:12

Tags: cybercrime, Facebook, fraud, internet, legal, Nigerian scam, scams, security

How to steal corporate secrets in 20 minutes: Ask

A few companies in the Fortune 500 need to upgrade their Web browsers. And while they're at it, a little in-house training on social engineering wouldn't be a bad idea, either.

By Robert McMillan | 03 August, 2010 10:59

Tags: Apple, Cisco Systems, Defcon, finance, industry verticals, Microsoft, security, social engineering

New threat: Undetectable Facebook scams

I recently received two Facebook e-mail notifications that set my security spider-sense tingling. Nothing was obviously wrong with the e-mail messages, which said that my friend had tagged a photo of me and then commented on it. But something about a reference to an app named "Who stalks into your profile" just didn't feel right.

By Erik Larkin | 29 April, 2010 08:32

Tags: Facebook, security

Ikea gift card scam takes in nearly 40,000 Facebook users

A scam Facebook page offering the site's users a US$1,000 Ikea gift card took in nearly 40,000 victims Friday.

By Robert McMillan | 12 April, 2010 05:02

Tags: Facebook, Ikea, scams

Facebook takes steps to deal with gift card scams

Like many other Facebook users Jeff Crites heard of the US$1,000 Best Buy gift-card offer last month from a friend, a Web savvy director of social media at a Fortune 500 company.

By Robert McMillan | 08 April, 2010 04:34

Tags: Facebook, phishing, scams, social engineering

Law enforcement push for stricter domain name rules

Law enforcement officials in the U.K. and U.S. are pushing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to put in place measures that would help reduce abuse of the domain name system.

By Jeremy Kirk | 18 March, 2010 05:04

Tags: cybercrime, domain names, fraud, icann, Nominet, UK

Twitter to begin screening some links for phishing

Twitter launched a new link-screening service on Tuesday aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service.

By Owen Fletcher | 11 March, 2010 06:09

Tags: phishing, security, social networks, twitter

Britain all atweet over Twitter phishing attack

The latest phishing attack on Twitter users swept the U.K. overnight claiming several prominent users.

By Martyn Williams | 01 March, 2010 23:44

Tags: phishing, social engineering, twitter, UK

E-mail scam steals €3 million in carbon credits

A clever phishing scheme launched last week may have stolen more than €3 million (US$4.1 million) worth of carbon emission permits from companies.

By Jeremy Kirk | 05 February, 2010 06:47

Tags: carbon credits, fraud, phishing, scams, security

Social network and banking scams are on the rise, says Cisco

What do phishing, instant messaging malware, DDoS attacks and 419 scams have in common? According to Cisco Systems, they're all has-been cybercrimes that were supplanted by slicker, more menacing forms of cybercrime over the past year.

By Robert McMillan | 09 December, 2009 08:17

Tags: Cisco, scams, security, social networking, spam

Two sentenced to prison for online money laundering

Two Bulgarians have been sentenced for their roles in an online money-laundering scheme that collected about US$1.2 million from U.S. residents and sent it to a criminal group in Eastern Europe, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

By Grant Gross | 04 December, 2009 08:01

Tags: anti-money laundering, cybercrime, jail, money, USA government

UK hails first cybercrime cooperation with banks

U.K. police are hailing the sentencing of four people who used a sophisticated Trojan horse program to siphon money out of online bank accounts and send it to Eastern European countries and Russia.

By Jeremy Kirk | 17 November, 2009 07:44

Tags: banks, cybercrime, UK

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