The European Commission is said to be close to finalizing an agreement with the United States that would allow the FBI to see the credit card histories and internet browsing habits of European citizens.

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On June 25th 2005, the homepage of the EliteTorrents.org tracker displayed an ominous message. Thousands of members trying to log in to get a sneak peak at a leaked copy of Star Wars: Episode 3 were surprised and confused in equal numbers. Had the FBI really raided one of the largest BitTorrent communities and put [...]

26-year-old Clintwood, Virginia resident Daniel Dove was convicted of conspiracy and felony copyright infringement by a federal jury Friday, due to his role as an upload administrator at the popular BitTorrent tracker and search engine EliteTorrents.For his crimes, Dove could face up to 10 years in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for Sept 9, 2008. Federal [...]

A US man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to one count of receiving child pornography via the internet.US District Judge Catherine Blake also ordered the defendant to serve a life sentence of supervised release.Scott Carpenter, 44, of Maryland, originally pleaded guilty on 15 April.The charges were brought after [...]

A group or individual by the name “Anonymous” has hacked and taken over two of MTV music websites and defaced them with racial and offensive images. The sites AllHipHop.com and SOHH.com were going down shortly after but are back up again.A MTV spokesperson said: “AllHipHop and SOHH, two pioneering Web sites that have been in [...]

It’s one thing to share an album that has already been released, which is illegal because it constitutes copyright infringement.However, it’s an entirely different matter to leak unreleased material, as a poster who goes by the nom de blog “Skwerl” on the Antiquiet blog discovered Monday.Two “Mulder and Scully types” tracked him down at his [...]

Citibank officials monitoring their network for fraud on Thursday, May 8, noticed suspicious ATM transactions at 8:30 p.m., coming through the five cash machines in the vestibule of a Citibank branch at 65th Street and Madison Avenue in New York City’s Upper East Side.As luck would have it, a bank employee — probably a corporate [...]

It seems that the Canadian card fraud I reported on yesterday isn’t the only scam that has been going on in North America recently, as reports are coming in about a similar cloning fraud in Northern Indiana.The fraud is sufficiently large enough to involve the FBI, with hackers as far afield as Nigeria, Spain, Russia [...]

Penetration testing can reveal weak spots in an enterprise’s network and Web systems — sometimes, “spots” that are big enough to drive a tank through, and on systems the bad guys would kill to get access to. White-hat pen testers dish on some of the more egregious messes they’ve encountered.

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The FBI is warning Americans who want to send donations in the wake of this month’s earthquake in China to beware of a rising number of e-mail relief scams.

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Once again, supposedly sensitive information blacked out from a government report turns out to be visible by computer experts armed with the Ctrl+C keys - and that information turns out to be not very…
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Counterfeit products are a routine threat for the electronics industry. However, the more sinister specter of an electronic Trojan horse, lurking in the circuitry of a computer or a network router and…
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