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Article | 26/03/2010 Gonzalez sentenced for multimillion-dollar credit card scam
As his parents and sister silently wept, hacker mastermind Albert Gonzalez was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court to two concurrent 20-year sti...
Article | 25/03/2010 Proposed US law would single out cybercrime havens
A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate Tuesday would compel the White House to identify international cybercrime havens and establish plans for cleaning...
Article | 24/03/2010 Council of Europe pushes for only one cybercrime treaty
A European intergovernmental body that oversees the only international cybercrime treaty is advocating that the U.N. supports its efforts to get wider...
Article | 24/03/2010 E-crime reporting format draws closer to a standard
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 ex...
Article | 23/03/2010 The 50 Riskiest Cities For Cybercrime
Ready the Bat-Signal, Seattle: You are officially the most dangerous city in America when it comes to cybercrime. According to the folks at Symantec, ...
Article | 18/03/2010 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...
Article | 25/02/2010 Conroy's filter ineffective against cyber crime, says expert
A cyber security expert who advises some of the largest corporations and governments in the world says that Communications Minister Stephen Conroy’s p...
Article | 8/02/2010 Indian pleads guilty in overseas stock hacking scheme
An Indian national pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy and aggravated identity-theft charges related to an international fraud scheme to hack into onl...
Article | 13/01/2010 ISP operators among 19 arrested in cyber-fraud case
The owner of a Dallas-based Internet service provider that was raided last April has been charged with participating in a conspiracy to defraud more t...
Article | 4/12/2009 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 se...
Article | 17/11/2009 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 se...
Article | 16/11/2009 DOJ charges two programmers with aiding Madoff scheme
Two computer programmers who worked for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities were arrested Friday and charged in connection with the multibillion d...
Article | 11/11/2009 Eight indicted for $9 million hack
A U.S. grand jury in Atlanta has indicted eight people related to hacking into a computer network operated by credit-card processing vendor RBS WorldP...
Article | 22/10/2009 Experts see forecast worsen for cybercrime
Law enforcement agencies can count a few recent victories against cybercriminals, but agents say the battle against them isn't getting any easier.
Article | 22/10/2009 Coffins in the mail are a trick of the cybercrime trade
There's never been a better time to get involved in cybercrime.