cybercrime

It's easier than ever for con artists to swipe your sensitive financial information -- and then use it to decide if you're a good target for a scam. But the war isn't lost: Consider these easy strategies to protect yourself.

Missing the Department of Homeland Security's color-coded warnings lately? Probably not. But computer security company Norton, part of industry giant Symantec, has created a new "Cybercrime Index" you can browse for free to take a daily measure of what online nasties might attack you today or steal...

Watch out, governments and massive corporations: The Internet and social media have broken your stranglehold on power. I'm not talking about the revolutions abroad. I'm talking about a corporate dirty tricks scandal that's been exposed in the U.S.

Two people involved with an international cybercrime operation that raked in millions with 'scareware' -- computer programs that pop up with fake warnings of badware infection, then bully users into paying for a bogus fix -- settled with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for $8 million, the agency...

Do you wear seatbelts? Avoid raw eggs? Get a flu shot? In other words, do you behave in ways aimed at protecting your safety and your overall health? Now answer this: Do you have a password on your mobile phone? Do you tell your social networking sites where you are? If so, you're not as...

As more Americans shop online for the holidays, they're falling prey to increasingly sophisticated scams. In response, on Cyber Monday, the Justice Department busted 82 sites for allegedly selling counterfeit and pirated goods, but more crooks are out there.

Authorities in the U.S. and U.K. charged or arrested more than 100 people in relation to an alleged multi-million dollar cyber scam to steal bank account information and pilfer people's money. Between May 2009 and last month, at least $3 million was taken from U.S. accounts, U.S prosecutors said,...

New York's attorney general has teamed with social networking giants Facebook and MySpace to work on removing illegal child pornography images using advanced digital technology. The effort, which also includes Friendster, hi5 and Canada-based isoHunt, involves digitally comparing photos found on...

The Federal Trade Commission permanently shut down the U.S. operations of a rogue Internet service provider that hosted child pornography, spam-spitting programs, spyware and other malicious contents. The FTC first used a court order against San Jose, Calif.-based 3FN almost a year ago, stopping...

Social networking site Formspring.me is wildly popular among teenagers and young adults lured by its freewheeling style, where people can ask anyone anything, anonymously. But as one teacher puts it, when it comes to young people: "Anonymity nearly always breeds irresponsibility."