Crime
Swedish spooks knocked offline by hack attack
DDoS attack follows intro of new monitoring powers
5 Nov 15:24
Hacker charged in $1m cable ISP customer cloning scheme
MAC spoofing biz flourished for six years
3 Nov 00:20
California man accused of DOSing site he founded
Former YouSendIt CEO and (very) prolific iPhone developer
30 Oct 20:53
Thieves target BT cables as scrap value rises
There's never a copper around when you need one
30 Oct 15:57
Rogue trader calls for smarter regulation to avert disaster
RSA Europe 2009 Never mind the bonuses - listen to the Leeson lesson
26 Oct 09:02
California pair charged with multistate credit card fraud
'Adam Constant' and the case of the missing suitcase
23 Oct 23:31
China fingered in cyberattack on mystery high tech co.
'Extremely large volumes' siphoned
22 Oct 21:04
FBI and SOCA plot cybercrime smackdown
RSA Europe 2009 White hats get proactive on e-crime
22 Oct 13:24
Kanye West death prank used to sling scareware
But Beyonce had one of the best hoaxes of all time
21 Oct 10:35
Man posed as teen lesbian to snare girl's nude photos
Before killing faux lesbian and posing as her mother
20 Oct 23:38
Scareware Mr Bigs enjoy 'low risk' crime bonanza
RSA Europe 2009 It's like a licence to steal, a licence to do anything
20 Oct 15:52
VoIP hack suspect fugitive extradited back to US
And you may tell yourself: this is not my 40' boat
19 Oct 15:09
UK taxpayers hit by wave of tax refund scam mail
80,000 in September, 10,000 in a single day in October
16 Oct 10:39
Trojan plunders $480k from online bank account
Windows and online banking - Just say no
14 Oct 21:28
Feds: bald man posing as 17-year-old secretly taped teens
'I'm lonely and hate being old'
13 Oct 06:02
Recidivist stock fraud hacker pleads guilty to ID theft
Go directly to jail. Do not collect $200
8 Oct 15:37
Visa gives merchants crypto card security guidelines
Retailers scramble for safety
Channel Register 7 Oct 15:47
Google Wave search poisoned by scareware scammers
Security Essentials results also rigged
1 Oct 14:42
Next-gen Trojan rewrites bank statements
Crooks loot $440K using uber-subtle stealth malware
1 Oct 12:17
Researchers unmask two faces of zombie networks
Dr Consumer spam, meet Mr corporate hacking
30 Sep 10:00
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