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More than half of logins (53 percent) on social media sites are fraudulent and 25 percent of all new account applications on social media are fraud, according to the Q3 [...]

Editor's Note: This is part one of a two-part series on charitable registration and enforcement. The second part will run in the July 15 issue. The Internet has driven extraordinary [...]

Phishing is one of the fastest growing forms of Internet fraud. Moreover, it is one that is highly effective. Estimates indicate that 70 percent of Internet users have received phishing [...]

Wayne receives an official-looking email from his bank, warning him that his account will be deactivated if he does not log in and verify his account details, including his credit […]

His name was Bond. Derek Bond. The FBI was hunting him down in connection with a fraudulent telemarketing scheme. As he arrived at South Africa's Durban airport in February 2003, […]

If Internet marketing is the new frontier for a company's ad campaign, then the online world could be a harbor for lawlessness and plundering. Search-engine marketing is becoming one of [...]

ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-28 December 2008-CMO Council Analyzes Data on Cyber Crime(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Nearly 60 percent of people who reported being victims of cyber crime experienced malware and 'malicious [...]

Over the past year, Google has been reaching out to the media and the public to allay fears that click fraud represents a serious threat to its business. Its executives […]

In the world of online banking and investment transactions, it's literally spy versus spy, with adware undercover agents surreptitiously tracking customer behavior while illegal, mass-e-mail-generating phishing enthusiasts cast their digital [...]

Banks using e-mail account alerts must be careful to avoid sending messages that look like the phishing e-mails they are fighting, an analyst warns. While banks have been slow to [...]

Atm/Pos phishing alarm overblown Contrary to recent warnings that phishing fraudsters are now scoping out ATMs and debit POS-logging bank account numbers and PINs-a new TowerGroup report says ATM/debit phishing [...]

Multifactor I.D. from Digital Insight Digital Insight Corp. of Calabasas, Calif., will start offering multifactor authentication software for consumer Internet banking early next year. Such software uses something beyond user [...]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD SophosLabs, antivirus company Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centres, has revealed that the company's spam researchers are warning computer users […]

Sometimes, the people you expect to be competent at what they do confound you big time. The latest example of this involves a purveyor of financial crack to the middle […]

Increasing awareness of internet security is forcing hackers to find other methods of attacking computers. Security company Kaspersky said vulnerable instant messenger systems were particularly popular. Other threats include botnets, […]

One of the oldest cons in the book, the confidence scam, has a new name: phishing. And it's putting IT on alert because of its potential to damage online business […]

Symantec Corp.'s Threat Analyst Team has discovered an exploit in the wild that utilizes the recently announced JPEG vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.'s GDI+ library to install a new and sophisticated […]

Symantec Corp. is expected to announce on Monday a new service to help financial institutions fight phishing attacks and online fraud. Phishing has become nearly ubiquitous, as fraudsters develop more […]

l All-party group of MPs calls for IT professionals to submit evidencel Law is inadequate but could fall off agenda if not kept in the public eye Bill Goodwin bill.goodwin@rbi.co.uk […]

John Kavanagh computer.weekly@rbi.co.uk Becoming a computer criminal or exposing an organisation to risk - maliciously or inadvertently - is as easy as making a few mouse clicks. This was demonstrated […]

Bill Goodwin bill.goodwin.@rbi.co.uk The police need more funds and more trained IT specialists to tackle the rising tide of computer crime, according to senior security staff who attended the National […]

John Kavanagh computer.weekly@rbi.co.uk A fresh and disturbing look at misuse of the internet will be presented at this year's annual lecture organised by the BCS and the Royal Signals Institution […]

Bill Goodwin bill.goodwin@rbi.co.uk New figures on the growing cost of computer crime to UK business capped a grim week in IT security, as the government admitted its national strategy on […]

interview Despite some high-profile successes, Len Hynds, head of the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit, has sympathy for companies that are reluctant to report computer crimes Bill Goodwin bill.goodwin@rbi.co.uk The National […]

In the early days of the internet, there were only a handful of common top-level domains (TLDs)--the last part of the web address, such as .com, .net, .org, .edu, .gov [...]