November 26, 2001 -
Search engines find the forbidden - By Paul Festa,
Special to ZDNet News, Search-engine spiders crawling the Web
are increasingly stumbling upon passwords, credit card
numbers, classified documents and even computer
vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers. The problem
is not new, security analysts say: Ever since search robots
began indexing the Web years ago, Web site administrators have
found pages not meant for public consumption exposed in search
results...
November 27, 2001 -
Google votes to put surfers in charge - By Stefanie
Olsen and Evan Hansen, Special to ZDNet News, The arms
race between search engines and traffic-hungry Web sites may
be headed to a new level. Battles have seesawed for years
between search engines intent on providing relevant, unbiased
listings and companies seeking top placement in results, no
matter what. Now Google is engaged in a controversial
experiment aimed at giving its users a say in ranking the
sites--a move that could help the company cement its lead in
the competitive Web-search market, or could potentially weaken
its position...
November 29, 2001 -
Russian linked to massive ATM fraud - By Bob
Sullivan, MSNBC, Report: $1.5 million stolen from Chase,
Citibank customers. A flurry of fraudulent ATM withdrawals,
resulting in $1.5 million in thefts from Chase and Citibank
customers, is now being blamed on a Russian mobster, according
to the New York Post. Starting two weeks ago, victims began
complaining to authorities about mysterious withdrawals from
their bank accounts. In its Thursday edition, the Post
reported that the U.S. Treasury’s Secret Service police had
arrested a Russian national and was seeking his brother, who
apparently have been operating a massive cybercrime ring...
November 19, 2001 -
MS: We'll always battle software piracy - By
Rebecca Buckman, The Wall Street Journal Online, Offering
new evidence of the problem piracy poses to software giant
Microsoft Corp., law-enforcement authorities announced Friday
they had seized counterfeit goods valued at about $100
million, including about $60 million of fake Microsoft
products, as part of an 18-month sting operation in Southern
California. Microsoft trumpeted the bust as a victory in its
intense campaign against piracy, but the company is struggling
with the problem despite antipiracy features in new products
such as its just-introduced Windows XP operating system...
November 21, 2001 -
Cybercrime Treaty Finally Ready - Reuters,
BUDAPEST - A European convention to be signed Friday will
unite countries in the fight against computer criminals, who
have moved on from "innocent" hacking to fraud, embezzlement
and life-threatening felonies. Interior ministers and law
enforcement officials from Europe, South Africa, Canada, the
United States and Japan will sign the milestone cybercrime
convention, which has taken four years to draft, in the
Hungarian capital...
