CyberCrime & Doing Time

The National Intellectual Property Rights Center (IPR Center) announced today that in celebration of Cyber Monday, they have Seized 82 Domai...

Today is Cyber Monday, the more recent trendy computer version of Black Friday. It originated when the Internet at home was slow and expens...

The Background Back in August one cybercrime story we were watching came to our attention via ZDNet's story Teenagers accused of running...

Pardon me while I have a Matrix-moment imagining this conversation. Matthew Anderson is sitting in a small room, and Detective Constable Bo...

It turns out you don't have to be an evil Russkrainian genius hacker to be a successful identity thief. Consider the case of sixth grad...

** UPDATE: Poo arraigned and in custody ** On October 21, 2010, Malaysian citizen Lin Mun Poo landed at the JFK airport in New York and and ...

One of my NASA buddies (hi, Lisa!) dropped by last week for coffee and to catch up on the world of information management. When I introduce...

We've previously posted about the FBI's Operation ACHing Mule (that's A-C-H as in Automated-Clearing-House, the way American ba...

On September 9, 2007, I received a forwarded email that had been sent to several high school parents in the Birmingham, Alabama area. It de...

A hard-hitting phishing campaign is trying to steal login credentials from the customers of USAA bank. Reports from all over are indicating...

Last week the anti-spam community was abuzz with the news that Igor Gusev, the CEO of DespMedia, and the man behind GlavMed and SpamItDotBiz...

This past week the Internet Crime & Complaint Center (IC3.gov) in conjunction with the FBI, the US Secret Service, and the Financial Ser...

Although its too early to know if this is Zeus related, Department "K", the Interior Ministry's Computer Crimes unit in Russia...

In this morning's BBC News, Metropolitan Police chief Sir Paul Stephenson is the focus of their story, Met police chief warns on interne...