The last two people found guilty of being part of the gang behind the UK’s biggest ever cybercrime phishing spree have been sentenced to nearly five years in jail each. Ukrainians Yuriy Konovalenko, 29, and Yevhen Kulibaba, 33, were the ringleaders of the largely UK-based gang that police believe managed…
Britain seeks to make online space safer with India
London is hosting the first of its kind two-day global conference on cyber security from today. View full post on cyber extortion – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
ENT: Moving emails simply – Online with Bob Vaillancourt
Irecently acquired a new laptop, or least new to me, that was running a version of Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Until the acquisition of this new machine, I have been using machines configured with the Mac OS X operating system.[…] View full post on cyber pirate – Yahoo! News Search…
Anonymous targets online paedophiles
Hacker collective Anonymous is at it again, and this time it is targeting websites that allow users to share child porn. The group took credit for shutting down more than 40 websites at the weekend used for sharing such material. It also said it exposed information about more than 1500…
Online privacy just an illusion?
THE US government used secret court orders to force ISPs to hand over a WikiLeaks volunteer’s information. Could this happen in Australia? View full post on obama hacking government – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security Gregory Evans | LinkedIn Interview With Gregory Evans Gregory…
Author charged in Jewish online dating scam
American author Mitchell Gross was indicted for allegedly scamming women he met on an online Jewish dating service. View full post on online dating scam – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
SpyEye online banking Trojan stealing customer text messages
Researchers from browser security vendor Trusteer have identified a new variant of the SpyEye financial Trojan that tricks online banking users into changing the phone numbers associated with their accounts. “The Trusteer research team recently uncovered a stealth new attack carried out by the SpyEye Trojan that circumvents mobile SMS…
UK banks announce online fraud losses drop 32 percent
Online banking fraud losses in the UK fell 32%t in the first half of the year, according to figures from banks released on Wednesday. The decline is due to the increased use of fraud detection software by banks, an industry group said. Fraud losses in online banking totalled £16.9 million…
America accuses China of cyberattacks and online espionage
US government officials and America’s European allies need to put more pressure on their Chinese counterparts to stop a “pervasive” cyber-espionage campaign and cybercrime targeting American companies, US Republican Mike Rogers said yesterday. And Rogers, chairman of the US House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence also inisted “our…
Online romance scams hurt hearts and wallets
Rob Rogers says it’s hard to describe how he felt waiting for hours at the airport for a woman with whom he’d been communicating for more than a year, only to find she would never arrive. View full post on online dating scam – Yahoo! News Search Results View full…
