Cybercrime

Hacktivists line up with online Marxist group in fight against Ankara crackdown on cybercrime.

Activists angry at budget measures to fund online privacy crackdown and call for protesters on the streets.

White House administraton 'concerned' over lack of privacy safeguards in cybersecurity bill.

Over 80 percent of cybercrime is perpetrated by organised crime, but how is the Mob doing it? We investigate.

A security expert says the move away from BlackBerrys is not a good one for mobile phone security.

Microsoft, accompanied by US Marshals, have disrupted an online security scam known as the Zeus botnet.

A new survey has found that 58 percent of data breeches in 2011 were conducted by hactivists with money not the main motive.

Russian websites monitoring reports of election violation have allegedly been hacked by pro-Putin cyber criminals. It is believed that the majority of the world's most sophisticated and effective cyber attacks originate in Russia.

The government is hoping to "cement a real and meaningful partnership" with the private sectors in order to combat cybercrime.

November 14 saw an event held at the prestigious Chatham Hose which aimed to discuss the trends, threats of cybercrimes and the ways to combat them.

Ministers, tech executives and internet activists from around the world have gathered in London for a Conference on Cyberspace, to discuss how to tackle security threats and crime on the Internet without stifling economic opportunities or freedom of speech.

With the U.K. this week, joining the growing cacophony of countries calling for a unified global anti-cybercrime agency, analysts have already begun to question whether such a response could actually deal with hacking collectives like Anonymous.

Just days after the U.K. and U.S. governments indicated a new zero-tolerance policy to cyber attacks, the search-giant Google has confirmed that it recently suffered yet another attempted cyber raid on its email service.