01/27/2009 - IT security experts are fearfully awaiting the activation of an Internet worm believed to have infected over 1 million computers worldwide, according to USA Today.
01/26/2009 - Spammers are quickly recovering from the hit they took when a notorious spam network was taken offline in November, says Google's Enterprise Blog.
01/07/2009 - As Israel continues its military campaign inside the Gaza Strip for the 12th consecutive day to cripple Hamas' ability to shoot rockets into its territory, both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian hacker groups have taken up the fight online.
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The percentage of mid-sized companies that reported a hacking or unauthorized intrusion in 2008, according to a study conducted by Amplitude Research. That’s up from 49 percent in 2007 and 44 percent in 2006.
12/18/2008 - Conventional wisdom says that most cyberattacks emanate from Russia and China, but a new study found that most cyberattacks during the last period studied were launched from computers in the United States.
12/18/2008 - The conviction of an e-mail spammer has been overturned by the Virginia Supreme Court, which ruled that the law he was convicted under was overbroad and unconstitutional.
12/10/2008 - The global recession will lead to a rise of cybercrime worldwide, as governments' attention to cybercrime is deflected toward more pressing economic problems, according to 2009 cybercrime forecasts from leading IT security firms.
12/05/2008 - There has been a sudden surge of security events online over the past four months, according to IBM's X-Force, an elite team of IT security experts.
11/12/2008 - Spammers can turn a profit even when there is a minuscule probability that a sent spam e-mail will result in a sale, according to a study by researchers from the University of California at Berkeley and San Diego.