US fights cybercrime on home turf
The next frontier in the fight to keep America’s crucial electronic networks safe from harm will play out close to home and require more involvement from private industry, which controls 85 percent of the infrastructure, experts say.
Anonymous hackers attack Italian cyber-police
Hacker groups said Monday they had accessed the website of Italy’s cyber police and published classified information online in revenge for arrests of hackers in Europe and the United States.
Anonymous fires back at hacker hunters
Notorious hacker group Anonymous on Thursday posted a defiant message to police and boasted of plundering sensitive data from NATO computers.
Online hacking: a brief glossary
With the rise of online hacking in mainstream news media of late, we take a look at the people and techniques behind the terms.
Anonymous and LulzSec face the law
Online hacking groups such as Anonymous and Lulzsec are finding out the hard way that the...
14 alleged hackers arrested for cyberattack on PayPal
Fourteen people were arrested Tuesday for allegedly mounting a cyberattack on the website of PayPal in retaliation for its suspending the accounts of WikiLeaks.
The Cybercrime index: SA-specific data and other details
Is Norton's cybercrime index relevant to South Africans and is location-specific information in the pipeline?
Protect yourself with website trustwothiness rankings
Opera recommends the Web of Trust extension to help protect yourself against cybercrime and malware
Cybercrime concepts for 2011
Kaspersky Lab says the complexity of threats reached a whole new level in 2010 and Spyware 2.0 will be the new cybercrime concept for 2011
By Fred Mitchell, Symantec Business Unit Manager at Drive Control Corporation (DCC)
Cybercrime, by definition, is any form of criminal activity that takes place within the realms of cyberspace. This type of crime is rife and is ever on the increase, with cybercriminals constantly coming up with...