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Defacement archive Zone-h mulls closure

Vote marred by suspected botnet interference
Crime • 17 Mar 15:34

Rent-a-bot gang rises from the DDoS ashes

Beware of the 3D screensaver
Channel Register • 13 Mar 00:15

Foreign losses jack UK plastic fraud up to £535.2m

Negative cash flows
Crime • 12 Mar 13:06

US, UK and friends have cyber-war party

I'll hose your network, if you hose mine
Crime • 10 Mar 19:11

Ex-anti-virus chief in spyware scareware scam charges

Double bluff
Crime • 4 Mar 19:17

Endemol tech chief to be released from Dubai slammer

Airport drugs investigation dropped
Crime • 3 Mar 14:57

Alleged Kiwi botnet mastermind in court

Black sheep
Crime • 29 Feb 12:22

Malware removes rival rootkits

Worm wars get stealthy
Channel Register • 28 Feb 15:05

Phishers clean up at online casinos

Poker faced fraud
Crime • 28 Feb 11:38

User-friendly black hats debut Crimeware as a Service (CAAS)

'Instantly infect your favorite Fortune 500 company'
Crime • 27 Feb 20:04

Judge accuses hacks of hacking cannibal ruling

Self-titillation blamed
Crime • 26 Feb 00:21

Former HP boss in the dock over call centre murder

Held to account over taxi killing
Crime • 22 Feb 16:22

Essex youth's cop headbutt heads for YouTube

Pleads guilty to ABH following 'happyslap' incident
Crime • 22 Feb 14:05

Jailed Japanese net mogul launches appeal

Livedoor saga continues
Crime • 22 Feb 13:50

HMRC data debacle used to bait phishing lure

Poetic justice restricts success of feeble ruse
Crime • 22 Feb 13:23

Hacker holds onto ill-gotten gains thanks to US courts

The Dorozhko Defense
Crime • 19 Feb 21:19

Bank scammers scammed, says security researcher

Hacking tools nick nicked data
Crime • 15 Feb 10:44

MayDay! MayDay! Ruskies reinvent cyber crime

Not your father's botnet
Crime • 13 Feb 23:42

FTC lists 2007's top consumer frauds

Internet still a den of thieves
Crime • 13 Feb 22:06

Thievin' teen bot herder admits to infecting military computers

I was a teenage zombie master
Crime • 12 Feb 03:13

Spanish police cuff 76 net fraud suspects

Grifters grabbed
Crime • 11 Feb 13:27

US spooks see Sadville as potential terrorist paradise

Al-Qaeda may horn in on horny teens
Crime • 7 Feb 22:26

Swedish police cuff seven for online pill sales

Suspiciously bulgy packages
Crime • 5 Feb 12:34

419 scammers plead guilty in US

20 years' prison time?
Crime • 1 Feb 14:54

Banks need to learn to keep their own data safe

Quocirca's changing channels Vaulting ambitions
Crime • 1 Feb 07:02

Email trail from navy man to London 'terror' site goes fuzzy

Shifty attitude becoming prosecution's main plank
Crime • 31 Jan 16:55

Swedish plods cuff remote-access robbery ring

Virtual villains unplugged in foiled bank blag
Crime • 31 Jan 13:14

Russian FSB 'protecting' Storm Worm gang

Prosecution on ice
Crime • 31 Jan 12:05

Low-tech hack was behind $7.2bn SocGen fraud

FSA warns City on risks
Crime • 30 Jan 13:39

Skype Trojan wiretap plan leaks onto the net

We have ways of hearing you talk
Crime • 29 Jan 17:24

American Jezebel solicited 'freelance' hit men on Craigslist

Will pay for death of Butte lover's wife
Crime • 28 Jan 23:42

Bush orders NSA to snoop on US agencies

Cyber attack fear used to expand spy grid
Crime • 27 Jan 21:25

Employee's silent rampage wipes out $2.5m worth of data

Paranoia strikes deep
Crime • 24 Jan 19:14

Estonia fines man for DDoS attacks

Local pest rather than international conspiracy
Crime • 24 Jan 15:16

Google and eBay thwart phishing redirection ruse

Clean up campaign bears fruit
Crime • 23 Jan 12:58

CIA claims crackers took out power grids

Future threat or urban myth in the making
Crime • 21 Jan 19:15

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