Columnists: Online Extortion Works
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Online extortion is quietly affecting thousands of businesses, for a very simple reason: it works. The big question then becomes, how will you and your company decide to respond?
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Splogs are the latest thing in online scams -- and they could smother the internet like a pestilence. By Charles C. Mann from Wired magazine.
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If you read the news, you'd think that most cybercriminals are lonely, maladjusted teenage hackers stealing credit card numbers from their windowless rooms. But the real damage is being done by organized syndicates, and they're playing for much higher stakes.
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There's no shortage of people playing dirty tricks, or just being plain annoying, online. Here's a taxonomy to help you sort them out
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Internet service providers have to walk a fine line between fairness and profitability. Users want maximum service, and are entitled to honest contracts. Maybe there's a way to help everyone at once.
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Alternative browser features protection against online scams.
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You'd think that lower-income users would be the ones stretching their dollars online, but that's not the case
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Arbitration is part of the next wave of security measures, and can be effective against spammers who illegally harvest email addresses from a honeypot on your website.
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By Hazel Davis  There are a few among us who would balk at the idea of using a company that exists entirely online. We have enough problems dealing with those based outside the UK, let alone floating around in cyberspace.
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Plus: Teens turn to online poker for profit. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Spammers will find that the money to be made by bombarding computers with junk e-mails is not worth the risk. A Virginia jury sent a sobering message last week to the unscrupulous purveyors of junk e-mail.
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Also: New Zealand teen runs internet banking scam. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Also: States stand up to cyberbullies. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Meg Whitman describes how eBay, Paypal are combating phony e-mails and Web sites that may ensnare unsuspecting users--and drive away customers.
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Cyber criminals are cashing in on their expertise by offering tool kits that let anyone craft attacks.
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Cablevision coddles criminals Several weeks ago, security researcher Lawrence Baldwin dispatched an urgent email to abuse handlers at OptimumOnline, the broadband provider owned by Cablevision, warning that one of its customers stood to lose more than $60,000 to cyber crooks.â¦
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Federal officials are trying to prosecute operators of Web sites that recruit terrorists.