Anonymous writes " Internet Crimes Against Children Exploding

Crime against children on the internet is growing fast; and yet, the problem is going largely unnoticed and underreported. Current statistics show that one in five children who use the Internet receive unwanted sexual solicitations. That might not seem like much stated that way, but, its more than five million children. And while it is easy to dismiss this as a simple reality of the Internet it fails to knock home the more important reality that if a child is exposed to behavior they are not ready to handle it could have an overall negative impact on their entire life. This is the real issue.

Another sinister aspect of the Internet is the explosion of pornography being directed at children. When most adult’s think of pornography they think of nudie pictures they might have gotten their hands on as a teenager. Certainly innocent and hardly damaging. But often on the Internet we are talking kiddy porn. Frankly I have yet to meet a person who has seen a real example of kiddy porn. I am sad to admit, however, that I saw my first kiddy porn picture at a law enforcement conference I attended. The picture was so shocking (a three year old) that it would be impossible for me to describe my own reaction adequately. Let’s just say the hair on the back of my head stood up. How big is the problem? Big enough that the second largest operation of the FBI is its “Innocent Images” program; it’s second only to the terrorism operation. The program is a first step to reduce or eliminate the distribution of kiddy porn on the internet. "

Blast writes Eastern mobsters target Australians online

Dale Paget, AAP
May 26, 2004

Australians are being targeted by Eastern European organised crime families using the Internet to extort and steal far from home.

Delegates at the annual AusCERT Asia Pacific Internet Security Conference on the Gold Coast were warned today that mobsters were hiring computer programmers to take their brand of criminal activity online.

People who have no weaknesses are terrible;
there is no way of taking advantage of them.
Anatole France (1844-1924); French writer.

- Intrusions in financial companies -
Oxygen3 24h-365d, by Panda Software (http://www.pandasoftware.com)

Madrid, May 21, 2004 - According to vnunet at
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1155258 , there were many successful intrusion
attacks on financial institutions last year.

Memory, the warder of the brain.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616); English poet and dramatist.

- Weekly summary -
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Madrid, March 13 2004 - Over the last five days, Oxygen3 24h-365d has dealt
with the issues summarized below. Full details are available at:
http://www.pandasoftware.com/about/press/oxygen3/oxygen.asp

Cybercrime Costing UK Business Billions
Tue February 24, 2004 09:18 AM ET
By Bernhard Warner,
European Internet Correspondent

LONDON (Reuters) - Cybercrime cost British companies hundreds of millions, and perhaps billions, of pounds in lost business last year, and the next wave of Internet attacks is likely to be more severe, a conference heard on Tuesday.

Tank863 writes "

Spyware Info, Tom Coyote, and Merijn.org (Update)

I received this in an email from lockergnome.. and thought that it would be useful here.
By Meryl K. Evans
Februrary 23, 2004

I talked with Mike Healan, the editor of SpywareInfo, a resource providing the latest spyware threats, forums, and links to related articles and information so that your system can stay free and clean. "

New Attack Follows Mydoom

Malware program installs itself on infected PCs.

Macworld.co.uk staff, Macworld.co.uk
Wednesday, February 11, 2004

A new attack against Mydoom-infected machines has been identified by security specialists Mi2g.

For it is far better to know something about everything
than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662); French scientist and philosopher.

- Weekly report on viruses and intrusions -
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Madrid, February 8, 2004 - In this week's report we are going to look at
Mydoom.A, that appeared on January 27 and has continued spreading widely.
Then we will turn to five totally different type of malware: Mimail.T,
Sdbot.MH, Gaobot.DQ, X-Scan.A and Y2k.

One change leaves the way open for the introduction of others.
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527); Italian philosopher, statesman, writer.

- Weekly summary -
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Madrid, January 31, 2004 - This week in Oxygen3 24h-365d, we have reported
the news(*) summarized below, from which we can highlight the appearance of
Mydoom.A and the epidemic it has caused.

Nigeria to Battle Internet Scams That Taint Its Image

By Thomas Crampton
January 26, 2004




Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Nigerian finance minister who joined the cabinet of President Olusegun Obasanjo in May, said that a crackdown on the e-mail scam perpetrators must be a key part of reforms intended to build investor confidence in Nigeria.