Crimes perpetrated over the Internet, typically having to do with online fraud. See cybercrook and cyberextortion.
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- Taiwan busts hacking ring, 50 million personal records compromised
- Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau CIB has successfully tracked down and arrested six people in what the CIB believes to be the biggest personal data breach in Taiwan to date. Apparently, the group also managed to obtain personal data on Taiwan's current and former presidents : "The suspects are believed...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- China busts hacking ring, managed to penetrate ten government databases
- China busts hacking ring, managed to penetrate ten government databasesChinese hackers bustedWell, at least we know now that it's not just other countries that they work on. and "however, as in many other countries there seems to be a lack of political awareness on how severe the situation has...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- China busts hacking ring, managed to penetrate 10 gov't databases
- If you needed a university certificate in China during the last couple of months, there's a big chance that a group of ten people could have supplied with you such, going a step further and adding your details in more than ten government databases across different provinces in the country,...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Fortune 500 companies use of email spoofing countermeasures declining
- Here's a paradox - a technology originally meant to verify the sender of an email message for the sake of preventing spoofed messages from reaching the network, still hasn't been embraced by the world's biggest companies despite being around for years, but is actively used by adaptive spammers increasingly abusing...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- (Gallery: Tools for CSI cybercrime)
- (Gallery: Tools for CSI cybercrime)See?[b]"The team does not attempt to crack high-grade encryption, relying instead on the threat of a prison sentence for individuals refusing to hand over passwords or decrypted files."[/b]Yikes!
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- News to know: Limelight's Olympics; Software prices; Wordcamp 2008; Windows 7 Server
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet Larry Dignan: Limelight by the numbers: Akamai's thorn? Podcast: CIO tells how he reduced impact...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- News to know: Windows 7; Graphic card upgrades; Psystar; Netflix outage
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Where on earth are these Microsoft patches? Ed Bott: Sinofsky dishes on Windows 7 Mary Jo Foley: Sinofsky to dish on Windows 7? Wishful thinking System Center Online: Another Microsoft-hosted cloud service in the making ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Gallery: Tools for CSI cybercrime
- Ever wondered how you catch the world's most high tech criminals? This photo gallery gives you a tour of the tools used digital forensics. by Andy Smith
- Image galleries 2008-08-14
- Today's assignment : Coding an undetectable malware
- Today's dynamic Internet threatscape is changing so rapidly, that the innovations and creativity applied by malware authors can easily render an information security course's curricular on malware outdated pretty fast, or worse, provide the students with a false feeling of situational awareness about today's malware that's driving the entire cybercrime...
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Indictments in huge hacking & theft case
- Indictments in huge hacking & theft caseNo sympathy on my partThere's something terribly ironic that hackers "concealed the data in encrypted computer servers that they controlled in Eastern Europe and the United States." I thought information was suppose to be free...I'm not interested in hearing about good hackers and...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- The Neosploit cybercrime group abandons its web malware exploitation kit
- The Neosploit cybercrime group abandons its web malware exploitation kitDishonor amonst thieves.It is ironic that even the cyber-criminals want to "license" their wares. Hey, criminals still need to make money.However like any object, one can use this to learn any vulnerabilities you have in your system and fix those problems...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
- News to know: Microsoft Midori; Sub $600 PCs; Dell; Neosploit; SOA
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: More tech details emerge on Microsoft's 'Midori' What if Apple had conducted the 'Mojave Experiment'? Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Microsoft, In Search Of Itself Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The 'Mojave Experiment' - Just an exercise in guided clicking or does it...
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- The Neosploit cybercrime group abandons its web malware exploitation kit
- The end of the Neosploit web malware exploitation kit? RSA's FraudAction Research Labs recent monitoring of ongoing communications between Neosploit team members and their potential customers indicates so. The Neosploit malware kit has been around since the middle of 2007, with prices varying between $1000 and $3000, whose main differentiation...
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- DNS cache poisoning attacks exploited in the wild
- UPDATE: Arbor Networks have provided more details in their "30 Days of DNS Attack Activity" analysis, SANS confirmed HD Moore's statement on DNS cache poisoned AT&T DNS servers. Numerous independent sources are starting to see evidence of DNS cache poisoning attempts on their local networks, in what appears to be...
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- News to know: Geek sheets; Cuil; Apple; DNS patch
- Notable headlines: Jason Perlow: Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives SSDs and Linux Gallery: Crucial Micron Solid State Drives My Sunday Afternoon: Fun with VMWare ESX 3i Dana Blankenhorn: The Microsoft way with Apache ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- 32% of North American SMBs have been hit by cybercrime numerous times
- 32% of small and medium businesses in the United States and Canada have been attacked more than four times by cybercriminals in the last three years, MCAfee said. 26% of those attacked took at least a week to recover, a devastating length of time to be offline for small businesses...
- Blog posts 2008-07-26
- How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame
- Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Romanian authorities arrest cybercrime suspects
- Romanian authorities arrest cybercrime suspectsCatching criminals is only the first step... Until judiciary systems around the world make a good example of these guys, nothing good will come out of these arrests. To reduce cybercrime we need effective deterrents. Slapping big fines that these guys are never going to pay...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- News to know: Google, Microsoft; AMD; Cybercrime arrest
- Notable headlines: Earnings wrap: Larry Dignan: Can Dirk Meyer save AMD? News.com: AMD's Ruiz steps off the roller coaster Google earnings fall short; says it can thrive in down economy. Techmeme Sam Diaz: IBM: Big Blue beats expectations Microsoft: $60 billion...
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
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