The Glider

Logging and charcoal companies in Brazil reportedly employed hackers to alter computerized controls that determine how much timber can be logged in areas of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest…….

A fifth person has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a scam that took an estimated US $2 million from Citibank accounts with the help of stolen ATM personal identification numbers (PINs)…….

Police in Dubai, United Arab Emirates have arrested three people in connection with a credit card scam…….

The Irish chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and University College Dublin’s Centre for Cybercrime have released the second Irish Cybercrime Survey, which looks at attacks and intrusions at both public and private organizations during the course of 2007…….

Whitelisting company Bit9 has compiled statistics on the applications with the most security vulnerabilities reported over the last year…….

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that Sony BMG Music Entertainment will pay penalties of US $1 million for violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)…….

McAfee’s annual Virtual Criminology Report arrived at three key findings…….

The terrorists who perpetrated the deadly attacks in Mumbai, India used Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephones during the three days of violence to maintain contact with their leaders…….

T-Mobile and AT&T have agreed to permanent injunctions in a Los Angeles court that prohibit them from claiming that their voice-mail systems are protected from sabotage…….

A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order that closes down operations of two companies involved in the marketing and distribution of phony malware protection software, often known as scareware…….