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Credit card fraud gangs going global
News Recent arrest in Thailand has put police on guard against professional outfits that have global network and use sophisticated technology to escape detection.
Tags: Data security, Network security, Security Management, Security applications/tools, ATM, Mobile, Arrest, Thailand, Cell Phone, Gang
Many still vulnerable to Conficker
News Some 11 percent of users still have not patched security hole that makes PCs vulnerable to Conficker worm, according to blog post from antivirus company Sophos.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Security Management, Microsoft Corp., Exploit, Payload, Worm, Sophos Plc., Graham Cluley, Password, antivirus
Conficker worm might originate from China
News A Vietnamese security firm concludes that Conficker worm has the same root as the Nimda, which the firm believes originated in China.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Microsoft Corp., Security, Worm, Nimda worm, computer, Conficker, software, virus, Microsoft Windows
Still no arrests from Aust police raid
News Raid carried out by the Australian Federal Police on a Melbourne homeowner suspected of attempting to obtain credit card details via an online forum, has not yielded any arrests or charges.
Tags: Hacking, Authentication and encryption, Arrest, Spokesperson, Storage, RAID, computer, Melbourne, ABC Inc., credit card
Police smash DarkMarket cybercrime ring
News The FBI, Soca and international police forces have closed down the Darkmarket forum, which traded in banking and credit-card details.
Tags: Security, Arrest, FBI, Card Information, Manchester, Turkey, trader, keyboard, Symantec Corp., Germany
Soca socking it to cybercriminals
News The United Kingdom's Serious Organized Crime Agency has published its annual report, detailing a year of fighting e-crime.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Hacking, FBI, London, records management, U.K., marketing, bank, information technology, banking
Biggest-ever Internet piracy bust claimed in Sweden
News Server seized south of Stockholm contained 65 terabytes of digital data consisting of films, TV series, computer programs and the music equivalent of 16,000 movies.
Tags: Music, Bust, Internet piracy, computer software, computer, Pirate Bay, Server, antipiracy, Sweden, File-sharing
Service restored in Silicon Valley after fiber cut
News AT&T said that service is back up in the San Jose, Calif., area after four of the company's four fiber-optic cables there were cut last week.
Tags: Cable, Twitter, Sprint Communications, Fiber, landline phone, Wireless, phone, AT&T Corp., network, Silicon Valley
Latest Conficker worm gets nastier
News Conficker.C blocks access to protective services, downloads a Trojan, and is programmed to seek out 50,000 domains on Apr. 1, as the authors of worm try to outsmart security vendors.
Tags: Viruses and worms, PC security, Microsoft Corp., Security, Worm, Domain, Sophos Plc., removable storage, Bitdefender, computer
All quiet on the Conficker front. Now what?
News Just because Conficker has been quiet doesn't mean it won't act in the future, turning unsuspecting PCs into spam-sending drones or stealthily stealing passwords, experts say.
Tags: Network security, Security Management, Security applications/tools, PC security, Microsoft Corp., Security, Worm, David Perry, Sasser worm, Graham Cluley
How online search traces helped lead to arrest
News Electronic traces ranging from online library searches to credit card records led to charges that a New Mexico man sent 64 threatening letters with a white powder.
Tags: Legal, Web sites, Affidavit, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Yahoo! Inc., FDIC, attorney, Washington Mutual Inc., Internet Search, Computer
Yahoo's delicate dance in Vietnam
News Search firm is expanding in the Asian country but is taking pains to avoid being drawn into government efforts to curb citizens' use of the Web.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Government, Vietnam, Borders Books & Music, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Singapore, Berkman Center, China
Conficker time bomb ticks, but don't expect fireworks
News Worm's latest variant is set to start hitting random domains on April 1. But security experts say the damage might not be as serious as the hype suggests.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Microsoft Corp., Security, Worm, Domain, USB Flash Drive, Storage, removable storage, computer, Conficker
Spyware arrest follows Internet bank thefts
News A Japanese man is alleged to have installed spyware on one of a jewellery shop's computers and obtain passwords to the shop's Internet banking accounts.
Microsoft bounty snags suspected Sasser author
News The software giant's US$5 million fund for rewarding informants for leads on virus attacks snags its first success with the arrest of a man in Germany who has confessed to the release of the Sasser worm.
Tags: Viruses and worms
