"Crime expands to fill the space available" should be a well-known epithet: Evidence it's true is revealed in news that social networking phenomenas Facebook and Twitter were used in a classic stock fraud trick.READ»
Google, probably still sore after its fight with the spiky Chinese authorities, has nevertheless opened a new front in its battle against Net censorship: It's discovered a huge cyberattack against people who contradict the Vietnamese ...READ»
After months of will-they-or-won’t-they speculation over Google’s threats to end its censorship in China, the search giant has finally pulled the plug. Now, visitors to Google.cn are...READ»
Norton, one of the leading makers of anti-virus software, used their access to cybercrime data to rank the riskiest cities in the country--and they're not always what you'd think.READ»
The U.S.'s cyber security czar Howard Schmidt has obviously been doing something apart from tidying his desk in the three months since being appointed: He's been coming up with a cyber defense plan, which he's just revealed to the ...READ»
Here's one for the conspiracy theorists among you (you know who you are...and so do the guys in the van out front): That Chinese cyberattack late in 2009, targeting Google and other big names, was enabled by U.S. warrantless search ...READ»
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China can't seem to keep out of the news about hacking and cyberwar can it? The country's police have scored a positive news report, however: They've closed down the nation's biggest hacker training school. It does raise some ...READ»
The continuing Google versus Chinese censorship and cyberattack affair has just taken a bizarre twist: Five Chinese human rights activists Web sites were the subject of DDoS attacks over the weekend, and they are blaming the Chinese ...READ»
The political/ethical/financial spat between Google and the Chinese authorities has entered its second phase: The Chinese government is underlining its legal position, and Google's responding by postponing the launch of Android ...READ»
You'll be waking up this morning to frantic discussions all over the Internets about a surprising decision by Google to uncensor its service in China. The question is that, though uncensoring may be bold, did it actually make things ...READ»
For the last two weeks, a phishing and malware scam propagated virally through Facebook, taking control of member accounts and blasting their friends with bogus messages. Today, a new wave of attacks hit, getting broader traction ...READ»
Last week I wrote about a phishing and malware scam that has plagued Facebook for weeks. It wasn't quite a virus, because it affected Mac users--but it wasn't entirely Web-based either, because some of the links it hawked were ...READ»
On Thursday night, Facebook was attacked by hackers for the fourth time this month. Who is behind the attacks isn't known, but the malefactors appear to be using several old tricks--phishing, malware downloads, and other ...READ»
It's tax time, and many of us will heed the IRS' suggestion to download forms and file electronically. But as I learned, malicious black hat hackers have hijacked Google's IRS search results to deliver nasty malware. Here’s how. READ»
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When Sergio Pinon fell victim to identity theft in February 2004, he did more than just get mad about it. As the chief fraud investigator for MasterCard, Pinon realized that "if it could happen to me, ...READ»
Lying about your identity on the Internet may no longer just earn you the scorn of your fellow online users – it could also be a criminal, jailable offense.READ»
Every day it seems like we’re hearing about a bank merger or at least banks talking about merging. Washington Mutual and J.P. Morgan Chase. Merrill Lynch and Bank of America. It doesn’t look like we’ll be hearing any less of ...READ»
Inside the shadowy underworld where rogue employees sell holes in their companies' software. The buyers: security firms, mobsters, and -- surprise -- the U.S. government. READ»
A client of ours sent over an e-mail from Google, one that said one of their ads were disapproved and there was a link to login and fix the problem. The only thing was, the notice wasn't from Google, and it went to a phishing site, ...READ»
Watch out for these snakes! Some people have no ethics at all.
I got an email this morning that purported to be from the IRS. The subject was “2008 Economic Stimulus Refund. [Scanned]”
And it started like ...READ»
