Why cybercrooks see the chance for profit almost everywhere
You would be surprised at the ingenuity of criminal hackers as they strive to turn their skills into cash.
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A cyber attack on Ukraine from inside the Russian-controlled Crimea region has hit the mobile phones of its members of parliament, the head of the country’s security service says.
You would be surprised at the ingenuity of criminal hackers as they strive to turn their skills into cash.
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A new agency to focus on fighting organised crime, child protection, border policing and cybercrime has warned that it will relentlessly pursue criminals.
“While they may be very good at what they do, they do have a past life and that is often captured on the internet,” says Charlie McMurdie former head and founder of the UK police unit on e-crime.
After the New York Times took four months to repel an attack by Chinese hackers, data security experts tell Channel 4 News it marks a trend towards cyber espionage in the “third era” of cyber crime.
As the government defends plans for wider state access to our email and digital communications, one expert tells Channel 4 News it could dissuade cyber start-up businesses from coming to Britain.
A British intelligence agency warns cyber attacks on the UK government are on the rise, ahead of a major summit on cyber-warfare. But an expert tells Channel 4 News the summit will be “superficial”.
Uncovering the true scale of the WikiLeaks-inspired Anonymous cyber attacks, they were not as bad as we were led to believe, writes Technology Correspondent Benjamin Cohen.
Channel 4 News uncovers a WikiLeaks cable which appears to show the United States believes responsibility for alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka rests with its leaders, including President Rajapakse.
A security expert tells Channel 4 News cyber-attacks are hard to quantify and the Iran Stuxnet was a wake-up call, as the National Security Strategy names cyber-warfare a major UK security threat.
Terrorism and cyber-attacks are top of the list of national security threats in what ministers are calling “an age of uncertainty”.
As Police across the country arrest young people suspected of inciting rioting on Facebook and Twitter, a cyber crime lawyer tells Channel 4 News that securing convictions may be ‘legally tricky’.
A self-proclaimed former computer hacker talks to Channel 4 News about cyber crime in 2011, the role social media is playing and why he thinks hackers could become “more dangerous than al-Qaeda”.
Nearly 2,000 of the mobile phone giant’s customers are “open to fraud” after hackers accessed their account details.