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RSS mafiaRevealed: The anatomy of an internet scam
News One of problems in the way this crime is organised is it's not like mafia command and control, these are people that agree to work together on certain projects. Scareware is bad for your PC and your pocket - but the fake... [19 Oct 2009]
Facebook payments: Virtually here?
News It's probably not a coincidence that those apps - from poker games to virtual pets to the seemingly endless parade of Mafia Wars and Zombie Wars applications - are the ones that would benefit the most from a virtual... [26 May 2009]
EU looks to tap up VoIP conversations
News Manfredda and Eurojust's Italian desk are co-ordinating the VoIP-tapping investigations, at the request of Italy's national anti-Mafia directorate. An investigation into the possibility of tapping internet telephony... [23 Feb 2009]
ID cards: The "surveillance society" risk
News He said: "Once you start using biometrics on a very wide scale, for all sorts of everyday transactions, the Mafia will also have your biometrics. You do not know which shops are owned by the Mafia but if... [09 Jun 2008]
e-Crime Crackdown: Timeline
News The Serious Organised Crime Agency warns industry to beware of the IT mafia UK citizens and businesses have weathered unrelenting attacks from online phishers and hackers in recent years, while witnessing a gradual... [12 Mar 2008]
Stock spam slumps
News The scam, often linked to mafia criminal groups, has essentially been around since even before the internet (via cold-calling rather than email). Separate research by security vendors McAfee and Marshal Software suggests... [22 Jun 2007]
'Scrap lie detectors for benefit claimants'
News Barber said the overwhelmingly majority of claimants are honest and not "gangsters or mafia dons", and those people who are less truthful tend to pass lie detector tests with flying colours.silicon.com Public Sector [04 May 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Recycling is rubbish
Comment Over the past year I have challenged several members of the recycling mafia. Written in the lobby of a Vancouver hotel and dispatched to silicon.com via a very low cost public wi-fi connection I know it sounds crusty and... [23 Jan 2007]
Opinion: Why I fear joined-up government
Comment These could be the security services, the Inland Revenue, your local council, Tesco, the Russian mafia or even the Combined State Political Directorate of tomorrow, given the rapid and alarming manner in which our... [18 Jan 2007]
Cheat Sheet: The Computer Misuse Act
Cheat Sheet The Russian mafia, widely linked with DoS attacks against UK bookies, are hardly likely to throw up their hands in despair and say 'oh well Dmitri, we had a good innings but now there's this new CMA let's call it a day'. [29 Nov 2006]
"Trusted insiders" a threat to corporate security
News Employees are still one of the greatest threats to corporate security as new-aged mafia gangs infiltrate companies, the UK's crime-fighting agency has said. Speaking today at the Infosecurity conference in London, Tony... [25 Apr 2006]
The mafia targets bank insiders
News Bolton added: "Obtaining sensitive information, whether through bribery or directly from low-level staff who are members of mafia-type gangs, is probably the hardest part of this kind of fraud. Fast cars and sawn-off... [29 Nov 2005]
Police: Fancy arresting some hackers?
News While the armies of hackers and virus writers tracked by The Brain are the foot soldiers, the generals, believed to be members of the Russian mafia do not surface in the channels monitored by CyberTrust. [10 Oct 2005]
Leader: Why slagging off the press ignores the real issue
Leader Therefore if the mainstream press takes five pages of tech jargon and turns it into 'There's some bad stuff out there and you really need to talk to an expert because your computer is probably in the hands of the Russian... [10 Oct 2005]
Macworld Expo: The wait is nearly over
News The speculation has been rife and three major announcements have been flying around the Mac rumour sites, as the Mac mafia indulge in some second guessing. With just hours to go until Steve Jobs makes his keynote speech... [11 Jan 2005]
