Once mobile online trading platforms become popular, the nature of the cyber-crime scene will most likely change, according to an Internet security expert. It is just a matter of time when Internet crime, which mostly has targeted personal computers, will expand to the mobile platform, according to McAfee Labs Technical Product Manager Vinoo Thomas, who [...]
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Police is India say 97 percent of cyber crime remain unreported in Gurgaon, a city located less than 20 miles from New Delhi, and representatives from industry are joining forces with law enforcement to solve the problem, Times of India reports. Last week, Gurgaon-based IT and business process outsourcing industry met Joint Commissioner of Police [...]
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A cyber crime expert at a Scottish university has come up with an easy solution to protect consumers from falling prey to online identity thieves: They should lie about their personal information when surfing the web. Herald Scotland reports Dr. Ian Ferguson, a cyber crime expert at the University of Abertay, has warned web users [...]
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A hacker network in the Netherlands was unraveled earlier this week, and the main suspect nabbed in Armenia less than a day later. While a Dutch expert hailed the operation as unique, the Netherlands still placed seventh on a list of countries hardest hit by cyber crime, according to Radio Netherlands Worldwide. The Armenian suspect [...]
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South African Internet service provider MWEB has been hacked and the details of several of their business clients published online, according to News24. It is unclear how the hacker breached the MWEB database, but a posting on SecLists.org revealed names and login details from various companies. “We have 1 000 clients still on the Internet [...]
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Police in London have arrested a 34-year-old man accused of organizing a money mule cyber-crime ring, V3.co.uk reports. Officers said the suspect allegedly hired individuals working as money mules as part of an operation that included stolen and counterfeit bank cards. Money mules often operate unaware of the illicit nature of their activities, recruited to [...]
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While most consumers know about the risks associated with using the Internet and engaging in e-commerce, the majority still relies on inadequate measures to protect their privacy and identity, according to a new survey by Anonymizer, Inc. An overwhelming majority of respondents believed a firewall and an anti-virus software offered adequate protection for their identity [...]
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The shadowy hacker coalition Anonymous’ most recent DDoS attacks against 11 organizations across the world have caused more than 550 hours of downtime and 742 service interruptions since the web assaults began Sept. 17, PandaLabs reports. The latest attacks that began Oct. 6 on the Spanish Copyright Protection Society, the Spanish Culture Ministry and Promusicae websites [...]
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Europe is now the top spam-producing country in the world, bypassing North and South Americas, and Asia-Pacific, according to the Trend Micro semi-annual 2010 threat report. Spam continued to grow between January and June 2010, stalling briefly during April. Despite common perception, porn consists of only 4 percent of all spam. Commercial, scams-based and health/medical [...]
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Digital forensics has come to play an important role in solving crimes as many criminals employ the Internet and digital devices in carrying out their illegal acts. “Almost every crime that you can think of has some sort of digital evidence in it at this point,” said Dr. Ibrahim Bagilli, assistant professor and director of [...]
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