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Article | 13/12/2012 Japan police offers first-ever reward for wanted hacker
Japanese police are looking for an individual who can code in C#, uses a "Syberian Post Office" to make anonymous posts online, and knows how to surf ...
Article | 11/12/2012 Gang responsible for multimillion-dollar online auction fraud busted in Romania
Romanian authorities dismantled a cybercriminal ring that stole an estimated US$4 million from U.S. citizens by posting offers for non-existent items ...
Article | 30/11/2012 System vulnerability at US university may have exposed student data
Western Connecticut State University said Thursday that a vulnerability in its computer system present for more than three years may have exposed the ...
Article | 15/11/2012 Proof-of-concept malware can share USB smart card readers with attackers over Internet
A team of researchers have created a proof-of-concept piece of malware that can give attackers control of USB smart card readers attached to an infect...
Article | 30/10/2012 Irked by cyberspying, Georgia outs Russia-based hacker -- with photos
In one of the photos, the dark-haired, bearded hacker is peering into his computer's screen, perhaps puzzled at what's happening. Minutes later, he cu...
Article | 29/10/2012 Privacy International warns of public transit card hazards
Public transportation companies and authorities in the U.S., Canada and South Africa hand over private information about travelers gathered by electro...
Article | 27/10/2012 South Carolina reveals massive data breach of Social Security Numbers, credit cards
Approximately 3.6 million Social Security numbers and 387,000 credit and debit card numbers belonging to South Carolina taxpayers were exposed after a...
Article | 9/12/2011 Four charged with hacking point-of-sale computers
Four residents of Romania have been charged for their alleged participation in a multimillion-dollar scheme to remotely access point-of-sale systems a...
Article | 3/11/2011 Facebook easily infiltrated by data-harvesting bots, researchers find
Facebook's fake account detection mechanisms can be defeated 80 percent of the time with the help of automated tools, researchers from the University ...
Article | 8/10/2011 111 arrested in massive ID theft bust
Prosecutors call it the biggest identity theft bust in US history. On Friday, 111 bank tellers, retail workers, waiters and alleged criminals were cha...
Article | 16/09/2011 Man stole data from U.S. service members via P2P
A California man who dug up sensitive information belonging to U.S. service members on peer-to-peer networks, and then used it to order iPods, cameras...
Article | 15/09/2011 US agencies making progress on cybercrime, officials say
U.S. government agencies are getting better at sharing information about cyberattacks with private companies, but cybercrime shows no signs of slowing...
Article | 10/09/2011 Online seller of counterfeit credit cards gets prison time
An Indiana man who manufactured counterfeit credit cards and sold them online was sentenced Friday to 14 years in prison for wire fraud and aggravated...
Article | 21/07/2011 House panel approves data breach notification bill
A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee has voted to approve a bill that would require companies to notify affected customers about data breaches...
Article | 8/07/2011 UK's News of the World closes after phone hacking scandal
News Corp. will close its weekly U.K. newspaper News of the World amid allegations that the tabloid hacked into the mobile voicemail accounts of celeb...

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