CyberCrime & Doing Time

Last week a whole group of formerly Russian malware infection websites migrated to a new home in Texas. The move seems to have been made on...

Senator Patrick Leahy introduced a much-needed Identity Theft bill in the Senate on October 30th. The bill, S.2168, cited as the "Iden...

Today I'm preparing for a lecture tomorrow about Malware and Phishing Risks. When I speak on phishing, I frequently mention that the tw...

A disturbing new spam email was received thirty-four times this morning in my spam traps. The email has one of those social engineering bod...

3G Communications Group offers many security services for their clients: According to the 3G Communications Group website, "More than a...

No time to give details (lecture in 45 minutes) but . . . READ THIS: SEVENTEEN INDICTED for phishing, spamming, etc, etc. Yes, that would ...

Todd Moeller and Adam Vitale will join the short list of individuals who know what it feels like to be sentenced under the CAN-SPAM Act. The...

Do you ever write something that you think is going to be ignored, like most of the things your write, and suddenly it takes on a life of it...

Just in time for the spookiest night of the year, the Storm botnet recruitment spam switched to a Halloween flavor. On the evening of Octobe...

Does Ron Paul suddenly have a strong support base among foreign computer owners with strange names and multiple personalities? or is it poss...

Apparently the answer to that is TENS OF THOUSANDS, or more. IskorpitX, the tutor of an entire generation of Turkish hackers, will shortly b...

Have you seen the television show "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" I've been thinking about a variation of that questio...

Jörg Ziercke, the chief of the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) in Germany, was quoted in a press release on the BFK website, following a simultaneo...

Last week the media lit up with speculations that 24 year old Ukrainian hacker, Maksym Yastremskiy, who had been arrested in Turkey on Augus...

Music collectors on the Internet got a mixed message this week as a Russian court found that Denis Kvasov, the head of AllofMP3.com was inn...

How far would you travel for $7 million in gold bars? For Igor Klopov of Moscow, Russia, the answer was "all the way to Manhattan...

There are so many interesting angles to the story this week about a case in Tucson, Arizona. The conviction actually went down in March 200...

Today I heard the news that the "AffPower" drug network is being shut down, starting with 18 arrests in Texas, Florida, Colorado, ...

Last week the online media went nuts over the sentencing of Christopher William Smith, known to anti-spam researchers as "Rizler"....

On July 20, 2007 I began my first day of work at The University of Alabama at Birmingham as the Director of Research in Computer Forensics....