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Cybercrooks making easy money from virtual worlds

EU agency launches campaign

20 Nov 12:05

Visa's digital credit card could raise legal stakes

Competitors may hop on bandwagon

19 Nov 10:45

BNP membership list leaks online

Rightwingers left exposed

18 Nov 14:31

Agile fraudsters prey on clueless UK surfers

Get Safe Online week aims to curtail easy pickings

17 Nov 11:14

Targeted attacks to add to ISP woes

As if brute-force DDoS assaults weren't enough

11 Nov 14:18

Lads from Lagos target Facebook

Beware 'friends' bearing begging bowl

11 Nov 13:59

Visa trials PIN payment card to fight online fraud

Updated Banks build one-time generator into plastic

10 Nov 13:35

Bono bikini babe party pictures loose on Facebook

U2 singer takes a break from solving world hunger

30 Oct 14:45

Schneier sticks it to surveillance

Inglorious five-year snoop-plan

29 Oct 16:30

Merchants and punters cry foul over Verified by Visa

Resistance is futile

23 Oct 13:06

English speakers hit hardest by ID theft

But punters worldwide lax with password security

23 Oct 13:03

VbyV password reset is childishly simple

Hit keyboard with fists, gain access

23 Oct 10:56

Spam swine break next-gen CAPTCHAs

Hotmail, Gmail and kitchen-based checks all neutered

3 Oct 14:25

Firefox update fixes international character password glitch

Lost in transliteration

29 Sep 12:15

Cloned US ATM cards: Can they fool Brit self-service checkouts?

Updated Carder crooks say they can

29 Aug 15:44

Best Western plays down impact of hack attack

8 million records? Huh, more like 10

26 Aug 10:36

Million bank details sold on eBay

And a few more gone AWOL

26 Aug 08:57

Apple's MobileMe plays into hands of spammers

Address harvesting all too easy

22 Aug 11:46

UK fraudster gang go PIN sniffing

Analysis Portsmouth Asda links to credit card hack

21 Aug 09:57

Goldfish customers sent wrong bills

'We're sorry about that. We're sorry about that'

19 Aug 13:34

How poor crypto housekeeping left OpenID open to abuse

Internet bouncer snooze leads to 'small earthquake'

13 Aug 06:02

Black Hat organizers punt totally hackable RFID badges

Black Hat Clone me, please

8 Aug 02:25

Researcher gives Elvis and bin Laden fake e-passports

Claims they'll fool e-readers. Uh huh huh

6 Aug 10:39

Blank robbers swipe 3,000 'fraud-proof' UK passports

Game on for the passport fraudsters?

29 Jul 10:18

Unions line up against airline ID cards

Airport workers join their bosses

21 Jul 10:38

Dutch university can publish controversial Oyster research

Freedom of speech trumps all

18 Jul 14:45

Oyster system failure causes travel misery

Updated Computer fault buggers barriers

14 Jul 09:38

Criminal record checks could hit over 14 million people

Analysis New CRB regs produce a nation of suspects

14 Jul 07:02

Gmail uses DomainKeys to lock out eBay phishing attacks

Promises 'dramatic reduction' in scam emails

10 Jul 12:25

Beijing scales back RFID ticket plans

Still embedding passport, address and email though

9 Jul 11:38

NXP sues to silence Oyster researchers

Report publication 'irresponsible'

8 Jul 10:59

Daily Mail loses employee info

Names, addresses, bank accounts and sort codes

7 Jul 10:22

Ankle-biting hackers storm net's overlords, hijack their domains

IANA and ICANN succumb to NetDevilz

27 Jun 18:55

Dutch government gags Oyster researchers

Don’t kill the messenger

25 Jun 16:25

Yahoo! Mail! vuln! fixed!

Buddy hacker account compromise risk plugged

25 Jun 15:35

Scareware package greets marks by name

Fakeale redux

24 Jun 06:02

Fraudsters pool data to beat plastic fraud checks

Post code lottery fix

11 Jun 11:07

Whaling fraudsters harpoon 15,000 victims

Two gangs blamed for attacks on credulous high-rollers

10 Jun 09:15

US bank loses unencrypted data on 4.5m people

IT finally hits the fan months after tapes go AWOL

2 Jun 15:57

ID fraudsters soak the rich

Soaraway losses

28 May 13:32

Facebook poked by XSS flaw

Updated Social spamming

23 May 18:40

Private sector saviours wanted for desperate ID scheme

Home Office chucks in the cards?

7 May 10:22

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