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Web Criminals Hit Betfair With DDOS Attack
News UK Internet betting site Betfair said on Wednesday afternoon that it had been attacked by Web-based criminals. Betfair [has] experienced a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack by criminals using the Internet which affected the main exchange...
[July 1, 2004, 11:10]
Most Wanted Criminals Web Site Crashes
Talkback Just got on the Web site today, and funny enough, none of the pictures work with Firefox. I wish this wouild not happen!
[November 18, 2005, 15:14]
Most Wanted Criminals Web Site Crashes
News It's the case of the disappearing Web site. The UK's 'FBI style' most wanted Web site has crashed on its first day due to high demand. But on 17 November instead of the full Web site, a note read: "Site too busy… due to the unprecedented popularity...
[November 18, 2005, 14:20]
Web Bookmakers Tool Up Against Blackmail Hack Attacks
News Criminals gangs are understood to be demanding large sums of money from bookmakers, and warning those that don't pay up that their Internet sites will be taken offline through a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
[February 23, 2004, 14:35]
Ex-cracker Slams UK Cybercrime Law
News Herbless -- who shot to fame after defacing government and corporate sites Web sites with political messages -- says that the government's oft-criticised Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) will be completely ineffectual for catching...
[September 29, 2000, 11:10]
Phishing Hole 'left Open' By Banks
News Online criminals are increasingly using cross-site scripting flaws to inject their own code into legitimate Web page URLs, the network security services company said in a note posted on its site Monday.
[March 15, 2005, 7:55]
Web Vigilantes Launch Attacks
News The 419 Flash Mob, supported by Artists Against 419, has declared war on criminals who host fake bank Web sites in the hope of luring victims to deposit money there. The criminals who operate the 419 scam, also known as the advance fee fraud, send...
[February 10, 2005, 12:20]
Cut-price Phishing Toolkits Pose Growing Threat
News The marketplace for phishing toolkits, which can allow technophobe criminals to quickly and easily set up spoofed versions of banking Web sites, is booming, with kits changing hands for as little as $30 (£16.15).
[October 16, 2006, 9:05]
MasterCard Fights Back Against Phishing
News While the effort will address illegal practices such as identity theft and the sale of stolen credit card information, it will focus primarily on phishing, a process whereby criminals use misleading email and fake Web sites to dupe individuals...
[June 22, 2004, 16:35]
Police Crack Down On US Net Fraud Ring
News But victims that fell for the ploy were unwittingly entering their PayPal account information into a Web site set up by computer criminals. Finally, to actually wring cash out of the scheme, the criminals would turn around and sell those items back...
[February 21, 2001, 13:25]
Cybercrime Laws Aren't Working, Says Minister
News We aren't going to stop unscrupulous people from doing what they want online — we can pass laws, but the criminals are smart and unconditionally mobile," Murphy said at the launch of Get Safe Online, a consumer protection Web site, in London.
[October 28, 2005, 13:00]
Naughton Back In Court Monday
News The arrest and resulting trial raised many new Internet-related legal issues, including questions about how law enforcement uses the Web to catch criminals and whether a jury would buy what came to be known as the fantasy defense -- the assertion...
[June 5, 2000, 10:14]
A Year Ago: Naughton Back In Court Monday
News The arrest and resulting trial raised many new Internet-related legal issues, including questions about how law enforcement uses the Web to catch criminals and whether a jury would buy what came to be known as the fantasy defense -- the assertion...
[June 4, 2001, 6:28]
Ministers Blamed Over £30m ID Fraud
News HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) was warned about the flaw more than six months ago but only closed the tax credit portal down last week after it discovered criminals had used the identities of 1,500 civil servants at the Department of Work and...
[December 6, 2005, 7:55]
Five Arrested Over Phishing Fraud
News We are increasingly seeing organised criminals writing Trojan horses to monitor the activity of innocent computer users," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. Russian antivirus company Kaspersky Labs recently said that 90...
[December 20, 2004, 14:25]
Protect And Survive
Leader In this case, the converged, integrated attack Delf SMA Trojan allows criminals to exploit people's computers and get them to send spam SMS messages to third-party mobile phones. As keen students of banking technology upgrade cycles, these...
[November 10, 2004, 11:13]
Organised Crime's Grip On The Net 'is Tightening'
News Almost all of the malware circulating the Internet is written by organised criminals looking for financial gain, experts say, and the problem is set to get worse. According to Russian antivirus company Kaspersky Labs, these criminals are behind 90...
[December 9, 2004, 16:05]
Interpol: Give Us The Tools To Fight Cybercrime
News There are still some places in the world criminals move to where ISPs still permit phishing," Otupal later told ZDNet UK. Criminals go to countries where this use of technology and movement of money across borders isn't criminal.
[March 21, 2006, 12:35]
Greatest Security Risk: Social Engineering, Says Gartner
News This involves criminals persuading a user to click on a link or open an attachment that they probably know they shouldn't. According to Mogull, identity theft is a major concern because more criminals are "reinventing old scams" using new technology.
[November 1, 2004, 7:39]
Tackling The Threat From Compromised Websites
Comment The web is proving a wonderfully warm and accommodating place for criminals, with compromised websites now their weapon of choice for launching malware attacks. Criminals need no longer rely on social engineering to entice users to visit a...
[November 10, 2008, 12:30]
