cybercrime

Social networks link terrorists

ITworld staff — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:23:03 -0500

A new breed of cyberterrorists are using online forums to recruit people who support Al-Qaeda, creating global networks of would-be terrorists.

With Gaza conflict, cyberattacks come too

ITworld staff — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:24:24 -0500

Pro-Palestinian hackers have defaced thousands of sites following attacks in Gaza.

Fry's Electronics VP faces criminal charges and lawsuit

ITworld staff — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:27:25 -0500

A vice president at Fry's Electronics Inc. is facing the inside of two different courtrooms for allegedly running a kickback scheme that netted him tens of millions of dollars.

Fake antivirus peddlers helped by Microsoft, IRS

ITworld staff — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:14:40 -0500

Scammers are back two weeks after the FTC shut down two major fake antivirus software sellers.

Software executive sentenced for hacking

ITworld staff — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:11:30 -0500

The president of a U.S. software company has been sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to stealing password-protected files from a competitor.

Cyber Crime: The 2009 Mega Threat

ITworld staff — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:12:25 -0500

According to the Ponemon Institute's 2009 Security Mega Trends Survey, cyber crime is the trend most likely to be a high or very high risk in the next 12 to 24 months. Cloud computing, malware, web 2.0 and mobile devices were also found to be getting riskier.

Sysadmin under house arrest for blackmailing finance company

ITworld staff — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:15:57 -0500

A systems administrator accused of trying to blackmail his former employer out of money and even good job references after being laid off was ordered Thursday to remain confined to his home.

IT worker let spammers into ex-employer's servers

ITworld staff — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:36:50 -0500

A man has been sentenced to a year in prison for turning his former employer's e-mail servers into open relay systems for spammers.

ICANN delays shutting down spammy Estonian registrar

ITworld staff — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:35:32 -0400

ICANN will delay shutting down a dodgy Estonian domain registrar pending a review.

Former worker sentenced for wrecking corporate servers

ITworld staff — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:04:44 -0400

A 42-year-old Connecticut man was sentenced to prison for sabotaging three servers at his former employer.