CYBERCRIME

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been monitoring many popular Web sites, including social media like Facebook and Twitter, since June 2010 as a part of a privacy compliance review, according to a report detailing the list.

Iranian authorities blocked a website on Wednesday hours after it was launched by the U.S. State Department to be a virtual embassy reaching out to people in the Islamic Republic.

Forty-five percent of U.S. respondents reported that their organization had suffered fraud in the previous 12 months, compared to 35 percent in 2009. Economic pressures, incentives, and opportunities are a significant motivator for economic crime.

Christopher Chaney, who has been accused of hacking into some Hollywood celebrities’ email accounts and peeking into their private photos and other information, such as movie scripts, offered a heart-felt apology and claimed that he just could not stop doing so, for he was addicted.

Christopher Chaney, 35, who is from Jacksonville, Florida was arrested and accused of hacking into e-mail accounts and other devices for private information including movie scripts and private photos, after being investigated by federal authorities for 11 months.

Christopher Chaney, 35, who is from Jacksonville, Florida was arrested and accused of hacking into e-mail accounts and other devices for private information including movie scripts and private photos, after being investigated by federal authorities for 11 months.

Federal officials on Wednesday arrested a Florida man and charged him with 26 counts of cyber-related crimes against Hollywood celebrities following an 11-month federal probe dubbed Operation Hackerazzi.

The Obama administration took aim at transnational criminal organizations on Monday, slapping harsh sanctions on four of the world's most notorious organized crime groups.

This isn't the first time Facebook has hired an infamous hacker: In fact, there are several teenaged hackers who got rewarded for their cyber-crime instead of being imprisoned.

Lulzsec says it is no more; hands hacking duties to Anonymous.

U.S. authorities often prosecute computer hacks that cause more mischief than money losses, but long prison sentences are very rare in such cases. But the hacker will have to face prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, if the victim shows that he or she has suffered a considerable amount of financial damage in a certain period of time.

Cyber attacks on governments, corporations, and individuals are rising rapidly all over the world.

Twenty-six people have been arrested for possession and trading of images of child sexual assault using the Internet, the Manhattan district attorney announced Tuesday.

However the latest challenge for the co-chairs of Sony Pictures Entertainment has nothing to do with their traditional expertise in fostering an environment to create the next hit movie, television show or running the global company's traditional distribution networks.

Sony Pictures has confirmed on Friday night that its website has been broken into by the hackers.

Sony has confirmed on Friday that its Sony Pictures websites have been compromised and broken into by hackers.

Sony Pictures has admitted and confirmed on Friday night that its website has been penetrated by the hackers.

Sony Pictures Entertainment, a unit of Sony, confirmed late Friday that one its websites was hacked.

Urging the Angolan government to withdraw cybercrime bill before parliament, Human Rights Watch said it would undercut both freedom of expression and information, and pose a severe threat to independent media in the country.

Sony promises to do everything in its power to support its publishers.

The raging debate over whether the death photos of Osama bin Laden should be released or not to quell rumors has unknowingly only managed to strengthen the voice of conspiracy theorists.