Web, crackdowns weakening Mafia's grip
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When it came down to business, Cosa Nostra could always count on fear.
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Operation targets power base of Calabrian underworld organisation.
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CastleCops.com and similar good-guy sites are hard hit by distributed denial-of-service attacks.
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ROME - Italy's anti-Mafia investigators have long battled money laundering. Now they're cracking down on jailed mobsters' dirty laundry.
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NEW YORK - L&#39;Fbi ha compiuto un blitz nei locali che ospitano il server di Indymedia, noto sito di controinformazione. Ieri gli agenti della Federal Bureau of Investigation si sono presentati nella sede statunitense
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More than 80 reputed mobsters in jail or on the run after major transatlantic strike against mafia
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Several online journalists have been arrested, raising fears of a government crackdown on internet dissidents.
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The tactics used by youth gangs to silence witnesses are increasingly similar to those used by the Mafia.
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Good-guy sites, like CastleCops.com, are suffering Web site outages from distributed denial-of-service attacks.
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They call it scraping -- when Web companies automatically harvest information from the likes of Yahoo, Google and craigslist. Now the Internet establishment is clamping down.
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Authorities in Italy and the United States conducted raids Thursday targeting dozens of alleged members of Mafia clans who controlled drug trafficking between the two sides of the Atlantic, officials said.
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Authorities announced a major crackdown on organized crime in Amsterdam's Red Light District on Thursday, for the first time bringing national police investigators and tax authorities to bear on what had long been seen as a local problem.
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It's no place to rest in peace: a vacant lot covered with reeds, slabs of concrete and trash. But federal authorities believe the site in a remote section of Queens could be a graveyard for targets of hits ordered by John Gotti and other mobsters more than two decades ago.
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Federal law enforcement may be heralding Operation Web Snare as the largest cyber-crime crackdown of its kind, but it is receiving mixed reviews on whether it will stymie the rise in Internet fraud.
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Recently declassified documents under discussion at this months SANS SCADA and Process Control Summit indicate that extortionists have been able to cut power to several cities over the Internet.
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chiefs hold emergency meetings over how to combat a mob turf battle in the southern Italian city. were the latest victims of a struggle for control a multi-billion dollar trade in drugs, arms and prostitution.
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Thwarted so far in his attempts to clamp down on mobile telephone use among deputies, the speaker of the Italian parliament has hit upon a sophisticated way of getting tough, a weekly newspaper reported.