A rise in credit card transactions via the Internet, phone and mail-order is prompting card heavyweights to promote tougher security standards for transaction data, according to MasterCard.
Governments have had to target themselves with phishing attacks in order to highlight weak points in their security and protect national secrets from espionage, according to a report published this week by Sans.
A stolen copy of the latest sequel in one of the top-selling video game series of all time began circulating on the Web late Wednesday in the US, the second high-profile game theft in a week.
Companies and individual Internet users can now protect themselves against a dangerous piece of malware which steals personal information such as credit card and banking details.
Apple Computer has settled with the last of three men it said leaked prerelease versions of Mac OS X Tiger onto the Internet.
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Spammers and online fraudsters are exploiting Web site features to learn more about their victims and better hone their attacks.
Proactive measures need to be taken to bring down high tech crime rates, according to detective acting inspector Peter Wheeler from Melbourne's Computer Crime Squad, following today's release of the 2004 Australian Computer Crime and Security Survey.
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