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Russian Man Pleads Guilty Over $500m Malware Scam

A Russian man faces up to 10 years in jail for spreading a computer virus that cost victims more than $500m (£401m)....

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Two Major US Technology Firms ‘tricked Out of $100m’

A Lithuanian man has been charged with tricking two US technology firms into wiring him $100m (£80.3m) through an...

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US Suspects N Korea In $81 Mn Bangladesh Theft

US federal prosecutors suspect the North Korean government directed last year's theft of $81 million from Bangladesh's...

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Two Major US Technology Firms ‘tricked To Pay $100m To Man

A Lithuanian man has been charged with tricking two US technology firms into wiring him $100m (£80.3m) through an...

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Yahoo Cyber Indictment Shows Kremlin, Hackers Working Hand-In-Hand

Wednesday's indictments in the United States of four people in a 2014 cyber attack on Yahoo Inc (YHOO. O) provides the...

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US Charges Two Russian Spies, ‘criminal Hackers’ In Yahoo Attack

Two agents of Russia's FSB spy agency and two "criminal hackers" were indicted Wednesday over a massive cyberattack...

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FBI Arrests Man In Bomb Threats To Jewish Centers

The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested a man in St Louis, Missouri on Friday suspected of phoning in bomb threats...

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Beijing Pushes ‘China Solution’ For Governing Web

Beijing said Thursday it will push a "China solution" to global cyber governance after releasing its first strategy...

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Gulf Cyber Attacks On Rise, Conference Told

Gulf countries must tighten coordination to fight an increasing number of cyber attacks, experts said on Monday, as one...

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A Guided Tour of the Cybercrime Underground

One of the strange features of cybercrime is how much of it is public. A quick search will turn up forums and sites...

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Cyber Warriors See Politics Muddying Security Efforts

President Donald Trump has vowed to improve cyber attack defense, but security experts meeting this week say a...

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Teenagers To Help Stop Hackers

Schoolchildren in England will be offered lessons in cyber security in a bid to find the experts of the future to...

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The Growing Threat of Email Scams To Your Business [Article]

Today’s digital frontier can be very much likened to the old days of the Wild West. In this present era identified by...

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US To Assist Ghana Fight Cybercrime

The United States of America (USA) is providing technical assistance to help Ghana protect its cyber- space and empower...

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The Communications Minister-nominee, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, plans to ensure all government employees will be conducting...

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Public Sector Workers To Use Gov’t Email Addresses

The Communications Minister-nominee, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, plans to ensure all government employees will be conducting...

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NITA Develops Cybercrime Alert Portal

The National Computer Emergency Response Team at the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) has developed a...

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SEC Probing Yahoo Over Previously Disclosed Cyber Breach

The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating a previously disclosed data breach at Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O),...

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Rogue Webmaster Steals 20,000 Accounts

Police in the Netherlands are contacting more than 20,000 people who they suspect had their data stolen by a rogue web...