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Man posed as teen lesbian to snare girl's nude photos

Before killing faux lesbian and posing as her mother

20 Oct 23:38

Top NASA scientist busted for leaking satellite intel

Key networks not secured

20 Oct 17:51

Scareware Mr Bigs enjoy 'low risk' crime bonanza

RSA Europe 2009 It's like a licence to steal, a licence to do anything

20 Oct 15:52

VoIP hack suspect fugitive extradited back to US

And you may tell yourself: this is not my 40' boat

19 Oct 15:09

Tabloid hack scum face jail

Oh no!

16 Oct 14:09

UK taxpayers hit by wave of tax refund scam mail

80,000 in September, 10,000 in a single day in October

16 Oct 10:39

Trojan plunders $480k from online bank account

Windows and online banking - Just say no

14 Oct 21:28

Polish government cyberattack blamed on Russia

Round up the usual suspects

13 Oct 13:00

Feds: bald man posing as 17-year-old secretly taped teens

'I'm lonely and hate being old'

13 Oct 06:02

'Hack Idol' to find top UK cyberwarriors

Wouldn't trust the phone voting

12 Oct 14:28

Large Hadron boffin arrested on terrorism suspicion

No more atom-smashing for you

9 Oct 19:43

FBI chief barred from online banking by wife

Domestic surveillance

8 Oct 19:41

Recidivist stock fraud hacker pleads guilty to ID theft

Go directly to jail. Do not collect $200

8 Oct 15:37

Feds net 100 phishers in biggest cybercrime case ever

Operation Phish Phry

8 Oct 01:22

MySpace confession sinks car-death conviction appeal

You are what you post

7 Oct 19:57

Visa gives merchants crypto card security guidelines

Retailers scramble for safety

Channel Register 7 Oct 15:47

Hotmail phish exposes most common passwords

Live ID hacking made as easy as 123...

7 Oct 11:56

Online banking scams overshadow plastic fraud slide

CNP fraud shrinks for first time

7 Oct 10:13

Google Wave search poisoned by scareware scammers

Security Essentials results also rigged

1 Oct 14:42

Next-gen Trojan rewrites bank statements

Crooks loot $440K using uber-subtle stealth malware

1 Oct 12:17

Botnet buries commands in image files

Stego backdoor hub

1 Oct 09:12

Man on trial over £600k NatWest phishing scam

Mule in the middle attack

30 Sep 14:34

Researchers unmask two faces of zombie networks

Dr Consumer spam, meet Mr corporate hacking

30 Sep 10:00

Alleged Romanian phishers (finally) hauled into US courts

Better late than never

30 Sep 00:33

Inmate hacker locks down jail computers

Chaos reigns after cybercrook given programming project

29 Sep 09:23

SIM card hack suspect released on bail

That's an awful lot of credit

25 Sep 13:37

(Former) IT consultant confesses to SCADA tampering

'Multiple user accounts'

24 Sep 23:59

California man jailed for E*Trade skim scam

Salami-slice fraudster heads for the can

18 Sep 18:16

US software firm sentenced for 'trading with the enemy'

Cuban heels

18 Sep 18:04

NYT scareware scam linked to click fraud botnet

Ukrainian fan club cheer on all sorts of mischief

18 Sep 12:37

Carder forum drops offline after hack attack

White hat cavalry shoot up black hat site

18 Sep 10:24

Inmate 'fesses to prison computer hack

Jailbreaking the HR system

16 Sep 23:31

Trial set for 'botnet for hire' duo

Zombies R' Us

16 Sep 00:43

Swayze death exploited to serve up fake anti-virus

I've had the crime of my life

15 Sep 11:18

International hacker buried $1m in backyard

Albert Gonzalez fortune forfeited

11 Sep 18:50

Scareware scumbags exploit 9/11

Updated Obviously an inside job

11 Sep 13:55

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