California bans malicious online impersonation
A new law makes it illegal in California to maliciously impersonate someone online.
Robert McMillan | 29 Sep | Read more
A new law makes it illegal in California to maliciously impersonate someone online.
Robert McMillan | 29 Sep | Read more
Beginning Sept. 30, Visa will require merchants and related businesses to conduct wireless security scans to prove compliance with version 1.2 of the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) which is designed to safeguard cardholder data from wireless threats.
Ajay Kumar Gupta | 25 Sep | Read more
Two hackers convicted of defacing Comcast's website two years ago were sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison.
Robert McMillan | 25 Sep | Read more
The FBI has launched an investigation into the "Here you have" worm, which disrupted corporate e-mail systems in the U.S. two weeks ago.
Robert McMillan | 24 Sep | Read more
A database security vendor says colleges and universities need to do more to secure their databases against break-ins.
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.
Robert McMillan | 04 Sep | Read more
Users of Apple's iTunes services should keep a close eye on PayPal and credit card statements for fraudulent iTunes charges.
Robert McMillan | 24 Aug | Read more
A City of San Francisco administrator who refused to hand over administrative passwords to the city's network was sentenced to four years in state prison Friday.
Robert McMillan | 09 Aug | Read more
Depression-era bank robber Slick Willie Sutton is famous for saying that he robbed banks "because that's where the money is." If he were around today, he'd have other options.
Robert McMillan | 06 Aug | Read more
A new study of 45 U.S. organizations found that cybercrime -- including Web attacks, malicious code and rogue insiders -- costs each one of them $3.8 million per year, on average, and results in about one successful attack each week.
Ellen Messmer | 27 Jul | Read more
As his parents and sister silently wept, hacker mastermind Albert Gonzalez was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court to two concurrent 20-year stints in prison for his role in what prosecutors called the "unparalleled" theft of millions of credit and debit card numbers from major U.S. retailers.
Nancy Weil | 26 Mar | Read more
A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate Tuesday would compel the White House to identify international cybercrime havens and establish plans for cleaning them up.
Robert McMillan | 25 Mar | Read more
A European intergovernmental body that oversees the only international cybercrime treaty is advocating that the U.N. supports its efforts to get wider ratification of the treaty.
Jeremy Kirk | 24 Mar | Read more
The Internet Engineering Task Force is close to approving a specification for a common format for reporting e-crime, a step taken to allow security experts to react faster to cybercrime.
Jeremy Kirk | 24 Mar | Read more
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.
Jeremy Kirk | 18 Mar | Read more