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NEWS ABOUT: cybercrime

cybercrime stories: 37 news summaries

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Federal Informer Was Behind Massive Credit Card Theft

Multinational gang stole 45M credit card numbers from US retailers

Aug 12, 08 8:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Federal agents struggling to crack the biggest data-theft ring in history discovered that one of their own informants was orchestrating the syndicate's US operations, the New York Times reports. The supposedly reformed hacker had turned Secret Service informant to escape a prison sentence in 2003 but secretly continued his criminal... More »

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Secret Service • hacker • data theft • cybercrime • informant

OPINION

 Tips for Candidates 
 on Cyber Security 

Next president must find right balance of regulation for internet safegaurds

Aug 7, 08 4:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Noting that both candidates have plans to ensure our collective cyber security, Bruce Schneier, in Wired, lays out some essential policy advice for the next president:
  • Use the government’s enormous purchasing power to make security software producers do better. Make security requirements for government software high, and those
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national security • Internet • markets • Internet security • cybercrime • hacking • computer • cyberspace

'Every Network Is at Risk' Thanks to Bug

Security expert says DNS flaw could cause Internet-wide chaos

Aug 7, 08 8:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Security researcher Dan Kaminsky outlined what he calls the biggest Internet security hole since 1997 to a gathering of experts yesterday, and it's a lot worse than had been understood, Wired reports. “Every network is at risk,” Kaminsky said at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. "... More »

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Internet • domain names • Internet security • phishing • Internet domains • cybercrime • Dan Kaminsky

Feds Nab
11 Cybercrime Masterminds

40 million credit and debit card numbers stolen across US

Aug 5, 08 3:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - An international crew of hackers who reportedly stole more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers from nine US companies were indicted today in what Attorney General Michael Mukasey is calling "the single largest and most complex identity theft case that's ever charged in this country." The... More »

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credit card • hackers • cybercrime • Barnes & Noble • computers • federal authorities • debit cards • OfficeMax • Boston Market

 Cybercrime Getting Organized 

Hackers, identity thieves working more like mafia; profits increasing

Jul 16, 08 5:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - There’s serious money to be made in cybercrime, and its perpetrators are beginning to reflect that fact, Ars Technica reports. Lone hackers have been replaced with hierarchical organizations that divide the criminal risks inherent in stealing and reselling (usually financial) information. The cybercrime "firms" are growing steadily as... More »

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organized crime • hacker • Mafia • credit card • savings account • cybercrime • hacking

OPINION

In One Domain, Anyway,
Man Still Conquers Machine

CAPTCHAs, where humans distill words from squiggles, hold line in spam war

Jun 9, 08 4:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Every web user has come across CAPTCHAs: wavy-lettered depiction of words you must retype as text. Most pay them no mind, but, Lev Grossman writes in Time, we should reflect upon completing one. They're one of the rare visible skirmishes in the largely invisible war between spammers and security programmers.... More »

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email • spam • Carnegie Mellon University • computer security • cybercrime • web email accounts • CAPTCHAs

Malware Threats
Skyrocketed in 2007

Symantec mulling new security approach

Apr 8, 08 2:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Last year saw an explosion in malware threats that has Symantec considering a new approach to Internet security—“whitelisting” legitimate computer code rather than blacklisting known threats. Of 1.1 million threats the company has discovered in over 25 years, it uncovered almost two-thirds of them in 2007, Computerworld ... More »

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Symantec • Internet security • phishing • cybercrime • malware

Cybercrooks Hacking Power Grid

In cities outside the US, hackers shut down grid for blackmail

Jan 20, 08 8:38 AM CST
(Newser) - Foreign extortionists have managed to hack into US power grids and shut them down, PC World reports, citing a CIA analyst speaking at a security conference this week. "In at least one case, the disruption caused a power outage affecting multiple cities. We do not know who executed these... More »

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CIA • Internet • power grid • electricity • extortion • power outage • hackers • cybercrime

Wi-Fi Hotspots Become Hackers' Delight

Easier now for hackers to snatch data from thin air

Jan 17, 08 3:05 AM CST
(Newser) - Wi-Fi hotspots multiplying around the nation are boosting convenience for internet users on the go, but are also making life easier for hackers, the Wall Street Journal reports. Hackers at hotspots in hotels, airports and cafes can pluck other users' financial details and company information out of the air. More »

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wireless • WiFi • cybercrime • hacking

Latest Domain Name Hack Disguises
Its Danger

Can secretly steer Windows users wrong

Dec 11, 07 8:48 PM CST
(Newser) - The misdirection of “open-recursive” DNS servers, which facilitate web-surfing by translating verbal domain names into numerical IP addresses, is the new, more covert face of cyber-criminality, and could explode into a new wave of phishing attacks, IDG News reports. Hackers can use these types of DNS servers to redirect... More »

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domain names • phishing • Internet domains • cybercrime • DNS

Hackers Breach Security at 2 US
Nuclear Labs

Personal info exposed at Oak Ridge; damage unclear at Los Alamos

Dec 7, 07 12:05 PM CST
(Newser) - A US nuclear lab has been the target of a coordinated cyberattack that may have exposed the personal information of thousands of visitors, reports ABC News. Hackers broke into the nonclassified part of the computer system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a research facility in Tennessee, and made over 1,... More »

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nuclear facilities • cybercrime • hacking • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

'Little Emperors' Run Riot
in China

Single-child pressures & tech revolution blamed in crime surge

Dec 5, 07 5:12 AM CST
(Newser) - China is seeing an explosion in youth crime, and the effects of the one-child policy  and sweeping social and technological change are thought to be partly to blame, reports Reuters. Juvenile delinquency has doubled in the last decade, with offenders getting bolder and more innovative. "They are committing new... More »

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China • youth • cybercrime • juveniles • online crime

Teen Nabbed for $26M
'Net Heist

18-year-old Kiwi's ring robbed IDs
with 'spybot' program

Dec 1, 07 5:39 PM CST
(Newser) - The computer ace behind a $26 million worldwide identity theft heist is only 18, police said today, after nabbing New Zealander Owen Whyte. The teen allegedly wrote a ‘spybot’ program which stole financial data from more than a million computers. Police called him “one of the most skilled... More »

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FBI • Secret Service • University of Pennsylvania • cybercrime • botnet • hacking • cracking • AKILL • spybot

NZ Teenager Is Alleged Hacker Mastermind

'AKILL' was under 18 when he reportedly led hacks that cost $20M

Nov 30, 07 8:00 AM CST
(Newser) - New Zealand police working with FBI today took into custody an 18-year-old accused of leading a cybercrime network responsible for $20 million worth of damage. Known by the name “AKILL,” the alleged teenaged mastermind wrote software that could control computers and then sold his skills to other hackers.... More »

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FBI • New Zealand • hackers • cybercrime • teenager

FBI Arrests Penn Junior in Hacker Sting

Part of worldwide police moves against Kiwi  'botnet' scheme

Nov 29, 07 6:22 PM CST
(Newser) - A junior at the University of Pennsylvania hijacked and crashed a school server as part of a New Zealand hacker's plan to take over multiple online chat sites, an FBI indictment said today. The arrest of Ryan Goldstein, 21, was part of a number of cases in an FBI operation... More »

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FBI • University of Pennsylvania • cybercrime

Dutch Teen Busted for Virtual Theft

He ripped off Habbo game 'furniture' that cost players $6K: cops

Nov 15, 07 5:01 AM CST
(Newser) - In what's believed to be the first arrest ever for theft of virtual property, a Dutch teenager has been busted for stealing "furniture" from an online game. He allegedly stole login information from gamers playing "Habbo Hotel," a Sims-like operation in which players create guests and furnish... More »

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Internet • theft • virtual worlds • cybercrime • Habbo Hotel • computer • passwords

Cybercrime Nexus Tracked
to Russia

Mobbed-up firm steals identities, pushes kid porn, spam worldwide

Oct 14, 07 5:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - A growing trail of evidence points to a major Russian internet company as the hub of much of the world's cybercrime, according to law enforcement officials. The shadowy firm hosts websites devoted to child pornography, spamming, and identity theft, the Washington Post reports. Security experts believe the St. Petersburg-based company... More »

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Russia • Internet security • cybercrime

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