CyberCrime & Doing Time

It was great of the Federal Trade Commission to up an arrest that can be announced at this years eCrime Researchers Summit that I'm att...

Has the current economic crisis caused you personal debt problems? As a cybercrime researcher I'd like to make one recommendation. If ...

From late May until last week, the Digital Certificate Malware spammer has been targeting banking brands. That has changed with last week...

Think about how much information the average FaceBooker or blogger shares about himself online. Now consider this, Governor Sarah Palin...

CareerBuilder.com has joined the list of brands targeted by a criminal who spams the news of a new "Digital Certificate" said to p...

Have you ever played Sim City? One of the problems a City Manager has to deal with is the disposal of waste. One of the possible solutions...

Last night I invited some friends to "Justice Science Movie Night". As my readers know my appointment at the University of Alabam...

Today the FBI announced that Shawn Henry has been Named Assistant Director of the FBI Cyber Division . I last saw Mr. Henry last month in t...

The hacker behind one of the most famous hacks in history, "Solar Sunrise", was arrested yesterday along with three Canadians, on ...

How do you tell if a "Work at Home" invitation is a scam? Here's a clue: It comes in your email. In today's Blog, I tho...

This is our third day of listing the newly registered domains for Hurricane Gustav. On August 31st there were Fifty-four new Gustav domains...

Yesterday we reported on 54 newly registered Gustav domains . In the past we have seen disaster-related domains tied to fake charities and ...

For several years I've worked as an "industry partner" sharing information with the coolest Law Enforcement / Industry / Acade...

Recently we've been seeing more and more of the Digital Certificate malware. In the past week, we've seen Bank of America, Capital ...