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Losses from a Romanian cybercrime ring that was broken up on Tuesday could reach into the millions of euros.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Democrat Barack Obama warned Wednesday about the danger of "fighting the last war" as he pledged to focus on emerging nuclear, biological and cyber threats if elected president.

Cybercrime, the harvesting and sale of credit card and other data for online fraud and theft, is a "shadow economy" that mimics the real business world in its practices and the mafia in its structure, according to a new report from security firm Finjan.

InformationWeek - A group in Brazil has unlocked the phone to run on other carriers' networks, and a hacker team has enabled independent apps to run on Apple's latest handset.

More than 20 cybercrime suspects are arrested in Romania.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Congress has asked Embarq Corp. about its work with a company that tracks online subscribers' Web traffic for advertising purposes, part of growing concern about Internet privacy.

A 27-year-old man was sentenced to 30 months in prison Tuesday for blasting AOL subscribers with spam over a four-month...

A federal court on Tuesday sentenced a New York man to a 30-month prison term for sending unsolicited marketing e-mail to 1.2 million AOL subscribers, according to a Reuters report.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Tuesday for sending spam e-mails to more than 1.2 million subscribers of America Online in a scheme that foiled the Internet company's spam-filtering system.

InformationWeek - The company's complaints may have as much to do with privacy and competition as they do with its own strategic interests in Yahoo's search business.

Symantec has built more than 300 speed and performance enhancements into its forthcoming security products, now in public beta.

The chain-of-command of a cybercrime gang is not unlike the Mafia, an evolution that shows how online crime is becoming a...

LONDON (Reuters) - Prices charged by cybercriminals selling hacked bank and credit card details have fallen sharply as the volume of data on offer has soared, forcing them to look elsewhere to boost profit margins, a new report says.

WELLINGTON (AFP) - A New Zealand teenager who confessed to a central role in a global cyber-crime ring which caused millions of dollars in losses walked free from court Tuesday with police wanting to secure his skills.

InformationWeek - The fix applies to the ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite, Pro, Antivirus, Anti-Spyware and Basic Firewall editions of the product.

Hackers always are on the lookout for the most vulnerable spot on your personal computers. These days, that weakest link might be your flash thumb drive.

WASHINGTON - Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. told lawmakers Wednesday that Congress should pass basic privacy legislation to protect information about consumers, such as the data being gathered about people's Web surfing habits in order to pinpoint Internet advertising.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Computer industry heavyweights are hustling to fix a flaw in the foundation of the Internet that would let hackers control traffic on the World Wide Web.

WASHINGTON - Executives from major Internet players — Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. — are due for a grilling about online privacy in a Senate committee Wednesday, but the company likely to get the most scrutiny is a small Silicon Valley startup called NebuAd Inc.

Facing heat over privacy concerns, NebuAd said Tuesday it has a new notification and opt-out system for its targeted...

AVG has upgraded the free version of a product that includes a component that scans Web sites for malware but caused Web site...

A Trojan horse program that has been around for about six years is now being used to steal system-administrator passwords...

InformationWeek - The site runs a script that pretends to do an online security scan of your computer and presents a bogus warning message that your PC is infected with malware, researchers said.

InformationWeek - Coming to IE8 is a set of cross-site scripting defenses to defeat hackers looking to steal cookies and browser history, logging keystrokes, stealing credentials, or just evading phishing filters.

MySpace is facing continuing security problems that threaten to spoil many of the innovative features that make the site...

LOS ANGELES - A hacker suspected of infecting thousands of personal computers with malicious software to obtain private financial information will plead guilty to fraud under a plea agreement, the U.S. attorney's office said.

A major antispam organization is pushing a set of new best practices for ISPs to stop increasing volumes of spam generated by...

InformationWeek - Security vendor Intego said the latest malware masquerading as a program for Mac OS X is called "PokerGame."

InformationWeek - Sybase iAnywhere has expanded its mobile security portfolio to include handheld antivirus and firewall capabilities.