Cybercrime crackdown has nabbed 150 in USA
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A summerlong crackdown on cybercrime has resulted in arrests or convictions of more than 150 individuals, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced Thursday.
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More than 100 people have been arrested following the US law enforcement agencies&#39; latest offensive against Internet related crime.
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A Romanian national was indicted on charges of hacking into more than 150 U.S. government computers, causing disruptions that cost NASA, the Energy Department and the Navy nearly $1.5 million.
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In what it called an &quot;Information Age undercover investigation,&quot; the US Secret Service announced the arrest of 28 people from eight states and six countries allegedly involved in a global organized cybercrime ring.
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The government calls it &quot;Operation Web Snare&quot;, catching criminals who do business online. They&#39;ve been working since June and today announced dozens of arrests for crimes that cost victims millions of dollars.
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Now in its 15th year, the nonprofit has freed more than 200 wrongly convicted people using DNA evidence
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Lost in space A Romanian hacker has been charged with running amok on more than 150 US government computers.â¦
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CAN-SPAM and other new laws help combat cybercrime, an FBI agent reports.
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This week, US Attorney General, John Ashcroft, recounted the successful efforts of &quot;Operation Web Snare&quot; which was undertaken starting June 1 st , in curtailing the efforts of more than 150 cyber criminals.
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US federal and state officials are investigating the hacking of a University of California, Berkeley, computer containing Social Security numbers and other personal data for more than 1 million state residents.
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The US Justice Department&#39;s crackdown on cyber crime has brought to light illegal activities, including credit-card fraud, to the tune of over US $215 million and resulted in dozens of arrests, a senior official said in Washington.
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More than 1 million computers &#151; possibly yours, too &#151; are used by hackers as remote-controlled robots to crash online systems, accept spam and steal users' personal information, the FBI said Wednesday. The government has no way to track down all the computers, both in the U.S. and elsewhere, that hackers have massed into centrally controlled collections known as botnets.
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More than 3.5 million U.S. adults lost money to phishing scams and online identity theft in the 12-month period that ended in August, a 57% increase over the previous year.
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Police arrested more than 150 people and seized computers holding more than 2 million images of child pornography in Australia's biggest crackdown yet on child porn, police said Thursday.
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In what is being called the largest global crackdown ever conducted, the US Department of Justice&#39;s &quot;Operation Web Snare&quot; has led to over 100 arrests.
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Weaknesses in the Energy Departmentâs cybersecurity allowed hackers to successfully penetrate its systems 199 times last year in intrusions that affected 3,531 systems, the departmentâs inspector general said.
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Among the more than 150 cybercrime arrests and convictions announced Thursday by the Department of Justice was an original: the nation&#39;s first case alleging denial of service attacks against competitors to knock them offline.