CyberCrime News
The arrest of two men in the UK and another in Macedonia is the result of an international operation in which 36 web domains, used to trade compromised banking data, were taken offline, the UK's Serious Organised Crime Unit announced today. The Head of Cyber Operations at the UK Serious Organised Crime Unit (SOCA), Lee Miles, spoke of the recent collaborative operation as "an excellent example of the level...
Read More...The Federal Criminal Police Office for Computer and Network Crime in Austria recently announced the arrest of the country's youngest hacker. At just 15 years old the teenage hacker has admitted to being prolific too, claiming 259 hacks over the space of three months. Between January and March 2012, a 15-year-old from Lower Austria, breached public systems, institutions and authorities in Austria, and many other countries too according an official statement. Interior Minister, Mag.a Johanna Mikl-Leitner, Read More...
The latest figures for European ATM fraud attacks reflect the ability of cybercriminals to adapt as some types of ATM related fraud incidents fall and others increase. Figures published by EAST, the European ATM Security Team, an international network working in the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) to improve public/private sector cross-border cooperation in the fight against organized cross-border crime, reveal the impact of changing...
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Countries around the world, from Algeria to Zambia (Republic of), celebrate Safer Internet Day 2012 today Tuesday February 7. The focus this year is on connecting generations as organizer Insafe invites people of all ages from very young children to parents and grandparents to “discover the digital world together… safely”. Since its beginnings in 2004, as an initiative of the EU SafeBorders and taken up by the Insafe network in 2005, Safer Internet Day has grown into...
Read More...To help girls and young women access training, job opportunities and career information in information and communication (ICT) the ITU has today launched a new one-stop shop. Despite ICT being a fast-growth industry the number of young women pursuing a career in technology has been falling in the US since the 1980's, the ITU reports. Back in the 1980's young women, the report continues, were gaining 37 percent of computer science degrees; today, that...
Read More...The European Commission is looking at ways to better integrate e-commerce across Europe according to a communication released today. A separate but related Green Paper was released at the launch a broad consultation process with stakeholders to help identify the barriers to a fully integrated and secure payments market across card, internet and mobile payments in Europe. An EC Read More...
Hosts and Registrars News
Nominet, the world’s second largest country code registry, announced on Friday that the .uk registry has hit a key milestone in reaching over 10 million domains registrations. In the 12 years since the first 1 million milestone was passed, registrations have multiplied ten-fold the .uk registry reports. Nominet CEO Lesley Cowley hails the registration of the 10 millionth domain as a "fantastic achievement" which shows that ".uk is a great place to be." Since the first registrations in...
Read More...ICANN proposes a multipronged approach for the adoption of a replacement for the WHOIS protocol as set out in a Roadmap of preliminary recommendations for further input and feedback from the community. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Roadmap is a follow on from report SAC 051 published in September 2011 by ICANN's Advisory...
Read More...Observations from a Russian viewpoint form the basis of a press release from community partner Group-IB in announcing the co-publication of HostExploit's report for Q4 2011 'Top 50 Bad Hosts & Networks' in both Russian and English languages. HostExploit's regular quarterly report presents levels of malicious activity found on all of the 39,796 currently registered autonomous systems (ASeS) through a series of charts and tables. It also...
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Two UK Men Arrested as Web Domains Seized for Trading Stolen DataThe arrest of two men in the UK and another in Macedonia is the result of...
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Young Austrian Hacker Acted 'Out of Boredom'The Federal Criminal Police Office for Computer and Network Crime in Austria...
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European ATM Card Skimming Down as Cash Trapping ExplodesThe latest figures for European ATM fraud attacks reflect the ability of cybercriminals...
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