CyberCrime & Doing Time

Have you ever received an email like this? Subject: RE: URGENT RESPOND NEEDED‏ Hello, I am sorry I didn't inform you about my traveling ...

In one of the largest international cybercrime enforcement actions in history, the FBI and the Romanian DIICOT (Directorate for Investigatin...

If you believe my email today, everyone is getting a new car but me. There are actually many different spam message subjects that make up t...

For many weeks now the spammers behind one particular malware family have been fighting a running battle to keep their malware-hosting domai...

If you have teenage friends, or friends with poor security practices, you will probably notice that your wall has recently filled up with in...

In February 2005, John Leyden told the story of Joe Lopez a 42 year old businessman in Miami Florida who sued his bank after having $90,348...

There is a saying "if you give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day, but if you teach a man to fish, he can feed himself for a lifetim...

I love to read, but it's been quite a long time since I had one of those "books I can't put down" evenings. Tonight was o...

Last week the big malware-spreading spam claimed to be from NACHA and warned about problems with an ACH money transfer. The same bad guys ...

The British government has released a report on the annual cost of cybercrime to the United Kingdom. The study mechanism seems greatly flaw...

While we wait for the Japanese Earthquake scams to begin, we noticed another on-going spam campaign. We wrote about the ACH Transaction Rej...

Yesterday was the beginning of the "Workshop on Botnet Detection, Measurement, Disinfection & Defence" in Cologne, Germany. ...