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InternetNews
August 30, 2005
Tim Gray |
Zotob Writer Had Busy Summer One of the programmers arrested last week in connection with the Zotob worm outbreak may have authored at least 20 other worms, according to SophosLabs.   |
InternetNews
August 31, 2005
Tim Gray |
Mytob Variant Still Trolling The Web The hackers who unleashed Mytob and Zotob may be behind bars, but variants of their work continue to appear. |
InternetNews
October 19, 2005
Tim Gray |
Swift Mytob Worm is Back Prolific worm rears its head once again with a new variant. |
InternetNews
May 10, 2004
Ryan Naraine |
Teen Busted For Sasser Worm as New One Hits A new mutant emerges even as Microsoft announces the arrest of a German high school student in connection with the creation of the Sasser worm. |
InternetNews
July 7, 2009
Alex Goldman |
FBI, DOJ Agents: We're Gaining on Cyber Crime While the Internet helps criminals organize and to reach across borders, it can also help law enforcement catch them. |
PC World
November 16, 2000
Kim Zetter |
Freeze! Drop That Download! From toughening laws to making virus writing seem uncool, industry and government are trying everything to stop virus writers... |
InternetNews
July 8, 2005
Jim Wagner |
No Jail Time For Sasser, Netsky Author The German teen behind the two e-mail worms gets probation. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2006
Prachi Patel-Predd |
Cybercrime At A Glance But just how much damage can cybercrime cause? About $67 billion to U.S. companies last year, according to an estimate based on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's 2005 Computer Crime Survey. Here's more statistics. |
InternetNews
August 17, 2005
Tim Gray |
Windows Worm Goes Global The Zotob.B virus and its variants are now using chat channels to allow hackers to control infected PCs. |
InternetNews
December 23, 2004
Jim Wagner |
Cyber Criminals Prove Elusive Law enforcement efforts to snare virus writers are improving, but the most destructive ones have evaded capture. |
InternetNews
August 18, 2005
Tim Gray |
Warily Watching Worm Variants Versions of the Zotob worm continue to slam corporate networks while security vendors and Microsoft play defense. |
InternetNews
April 10, 2009
Alex Goldman |
FBI Throws Data-Sharing Tech at Serial Killings The Internet allows law enforcement agencies to collaborate in tracking highly mobile criminals who have escaped detection for years - sometimes for decades. |
InternetNews
August 16, 2005
David Needle |
Windows Worm Spreads Separate groups of hackers are releasing a barrage of worms related to the Zotob.B virus in a battle to seize control of innocent users' computers. CNN, ABC and the NY Times, are among those hit. |
InternetNews
March 23, 2010 |
FBI Underboss Outlines Anatomy of a Cyber Gang As cyber criminals grow ever more sophisticated and organized, law enforcement agencies have had to step up their game to keep pace. One of the top men at the FBI shares what the bureau is doing to combat cyber crime. |
PC World
March 7, 2001
Jennifer O'Neill |
FBI Battles Computer Crime 'Epidemic' Bureau works to balance tough stance with privacy rights, director says... |
PC Magazine
October 7, 2003
Mark Hachman |
Long Arm of The Law The havoc created by widespread viruses in August resulted in serious legal hardball. U.S. law enforcement agents say the arrest of the alleged author of the Blaster worm sends a message to virus writers that the federal government will prosecute similar crimes. |
InternetNews
January 14, 2004
Sharon Gaudin |
Last Year's Security Problems May Balloon in 2004 If 2003 was the worst year in history for viruses and spam, hold onto your hat. This year, according to security experts, is setting up to see the malicious problems that appeared last year grow and fester into major security problems for 2004. |
InternetNews
July 29, 2010 |
Authorities Nab Mariposa Botnet Kit Purveyor A 23-year-old man was arrested last week in Slovenia for allegedly creating and selling the Butterfly botnet kit used to spread the loathsome Mariposa botnet. |
InternetNews
February 23, 2005
Jim Wagner |
FBI: We're Not Infecting You The culprit, according to e-mail security sites Symantec and F-Secure, could be a new strain of the Sober.K worm, which spoofs the domain addresses of a number of e-mail servers. |
PC World
November 13, 2000
Kim Zetter |
When Love Came to Town: A Virus Investigation Here's a chronology of the investigation of the Love Bug virus, the most prolific virus of 2000... |
InternetNews
November 11, 2005
Roy Mark |
FBI Hunkered in The Bunker Cyber G-men are responsible for investigating cyber attacks by foreign adversaries and terrorists, and for preventing online criminals from using the Internet to steal, defraud and otherwise victimize U.S. citizens, businesses and communities. |
InternetNews
October 8, 2009 |
FBI Holds Its Own Phish Phry Fed crackdown nets the largest number of defendants ever charged in a cyber crime scam. |
CIO
June 1, 2001
Tracy Mayor |
Break Glass, Pull Handle, Call FBI If you're the victim of a security breach or a virus attack, get the feds on your side... |
InternetNews
March 18, 2010
Larry Barrett |
FBI Says Cybercrime Skyrocketing A new report from the FBI says the rate of cybercrime incidents is growing rapidly at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars a year. |
AskMen.com
Bernie Alexander |
Cyber Crime: The Wild West, Online Forget about breaking and entering, aggravated assault and armed robbery. Cyber crime is taking over. |
PC World
September 4, 2001
Kim Zetter |
Did FBI Ignore Code Red Warning? Fast-spreading malicious worm may have had a less successful predecessor... |
BusinessWeek
July 17, 2006
Brian Grow |
You Can't Keep A Bad Scheme Down The spyware scourge is only getting worse. |
InternetNews
September 30, 2010 |
FBI Busts International Cybercrime Syndicate After a year-long investigation, the FBI and local law enforcement charges 37 hackers with using Zeus Trojan to steal more than $3 million from U.S. banks. |
InternetNews
December 23, 2003
Sharon Gaudin |
2003 'Worst Year Ever' for Viruses, Worms In no other year have computer viruses and worms wreaked so much havoc and caused so much damage as in this past year, according to security analysts. |
InternetNews
May 10, 2005
Tim Gray |
Teen Held For Allegedly Swiping Code Reports say stolen Cisco source code was used to infiltrate military computers. |
CIO
June 1, 2001
Sarah D. Scalet |
Outbreak In 2000, computer viruses caused more than $17 billion in damage to businesses worldwide. Read one CIO's story to prevent an invasion in your company... |
InternetNews
August 2, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
The FBI Fight Against Organized Cyber Crime The bureau is making it's fight against organized cyber crime personal. |
InternetNews
November 3, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
FBI: Twilight For Bank Phishermen U.S. and Poland hackers had targeted a major financial institution. |
Reason
February 2008
Radley Balko |
House of Death Feds shield snitches. |
RootPrompt.org
July 17, 2000 |
Calling the Cops I have had a lot of questions concerning the police and the cracker that I have written about in the Cracked! articles. With these questions in mind I have written this article that explains several incidents involving the police and system administrators and attempts to answer some of these questions.... |
Information Today
April 16, 2007
Paula J. Hane |
New Database Pools Info to Fight Retail Crime Retailers and U.S. law-enforcement agencies have joined forces in an effort to combat the growing problem of organized retail theft. |
PC World
August 12, 2002
Tom Mainelli |
Symantec Unveils Automated Norton AntiVirus Updated program zaps latest worms, seeks out instant messaging nasties, and doesn't bother you with the details. |
CIO
June 15, 2002 |
Doom for the NIPC? In late March, rumors surfaced that FBI Director Robert Mueller was on the verge of dismantling the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), which has been the government's primary critical infrastructure threat assessment and response unit since its founding in 1998. |
PC Magazine
August 2, 2006
Robert Lemos |
Legion of Doom Attackers are adopting open-source development practices, creating malware faster, and giving defenders less time to react... Tips to protect your PC against malicious software... |
PC World
July 2, 2002
Andrew Brandt |
Klez: The Virus That Won't Die? Brace yourself for another round: A variant of the resilient worm is wriggling alive this week. |
InternetNews
January 20, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
FBI: PC Crime is Common, Costly With computer security issues mounting, the typical response is to just add more security. But does it matter? |
InternetNews
May 26, 2004
Ryan Naraine |
Korgo Worm Targets LSASS Flaw The detection of a new network worm is a clear indication that users have still not applied Microsoft's MS04-011 update. |
BusinessWeek
May 30, 2005 |
Meet Cyberspace's Head Fed Nailing the Internet's most wanted takes a combination of tech wizardry and good, old-fashioned police work. |
PC World
December 17, 2001
Russell Pavlicek |
Is Linux Immune to E-Mail Viruses? Immunity is impossible, but the open-source operating system may be protected... |
CIO
May 15, 2003
Todd Datz |
State to Share Data with FBI Information sharing is key to beefing up homeland security. As part of that initiative, the State Department will soon share its database of 50 million visa applications with the FBI. |
PC Magazine
June 2, 2004
Sebastian Rupley |
No Attachment Needed In a disturbing turn for the worse in the virus blizzards, breeds of worms are appearing that don't require the user to open an e-mail attachment to infect a PC. |
PC Magazine
July 13, 2004
Alexandra Robbins |
The Virus Wars As the problem continues to escalate, the future direction of the virus wars is something of an unknown, because it depends on so many variables, including the shifting motivations for virus writing. |
InternetNews
June 1, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Gpic Worm Hits AIM The Gpic.aol worm is the latest threat to AOL's instant messaging platform, AIM, by targeting users' penchants to blindly click on links supplied by friends. |
CIO
October 15, 2002
Sarah D. Scalet |
Fear Factor A reality check on CIOs' top five concerns about reporting security incidents. |
InternetNews
March 19, 2004
Ryan Naraine |
It is Time for Some 'Friendly' Worms Let's face it folks, the virus writers have the upper hand these days. Is it time for the industry to be bold and imaginative about fighting back? |
