The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), in its manual on computer crime, defines such crime as “any violations of criminal law that involve a knowledge of computer technology for their perpetration, ...

The Supreme Court on Monday indicated serious reservations about the ambiguity and scope of the nation’s only major cybercrime law, hinting it may narrow the law’s applicability to avoid criminalizing ...

Alastair MacGibbon is the CEO of CREST Australia, a not-for-profit organisation that certifies "white hat" ethical hackers, and is managing partner of Surete Group, a consultancy dealing with improved ...

On September 26, 1983, the House Committee on Science and Technology convened its first day of hearings on the increasingly urgent issue of computer security. The nation's exposure to cyber risks had ...

Dealing with viruses, spyware, PC theft and other computer-related crimes costs U.S. businesses a staggering $67.2 billion a year, according to the FBI. The FBI calculated the price tag by ...

The Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section ransomware is a computer infection that displays a screen requesting money before it allows you to access your Windows desktop. This screen locker ...

Pro-active measures need to be taken to bring down high tech crime rates, according to detective acting inspector Peter Wheeler from Melbourne's Computer Crime Squad, following today's release of the ...

Artist’s impression of computer bugs on a circuit board Any computer connected to the internet faces a daunting range of electronic threats. Perhaps the biggest single threat to any computer is the ...

AS SOCIETY changes, so do the crimes that people commit. And as the internet takes on an ever more important role, computer crime is emerging as the misdemeanour of choice. But just who are the ...

This month, police officers in Marion, Kan., crashed into the newsroom of the Marion County Record, a weekly newspaper, and the home of its publisher to seize computers, cellphones and documents.