Nida Ahmed, 23, woke up with a telephone call requesting prostitution services followed by numerous similar calls. By taking a few of such calls, she realized that she was a victim of online defamation  a cybercrime. Someone had posted a prostitution ad on a classified ads website with her name and contact number in it.

WASHINGTON  Leading Congressional Republicans are arguing that getting tough on terrorism means trying all foreign terrorism suspects before military commissions But national security officials who served in the Bush administration say that taking away the criminal justice option would weaken the governments hand.

In IT circles, bad security advice abounds. Just ask the administrators at Pennsylvania's Lower Merion School District who somehow became convinced that it would be a good idea to use Webcams to keep tabs on students. The district says it uses the software only to track potentially stolen devices. A student is suing the district, alleging that school officials used it to spy on pupils such as himself.

Kaspersky Lab has announced the launch of Kaspersky PURE, a comprehensive and innovative approach to safeguarding all home PC users against digital pollution and Cybercrime threats. Kaspersky PURE creates a worry and risk-free environment within which PCs, files, digital identity and services are protected against loss caused by malware, malfunction or user error.

An international conference on the future of the Internet will be officially opened despite earlier fears of insecurity. The meeting had earlier been threatened by fears of terrorist attacks. Last month, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) received an unclassified report from the United States' Department of State related to the Kenyatta International Conference Centre, the venue for the meeting, that said the building was a key target for militants

SAN FRANCISCO -- When it comes to the state of U.S. national cybersecurity, how far can the government go to enhance it? How far should it go? The answers to those questions were up for debate by a panel of security experts here at the RSA Conference this week. Richard Clarke, a White House advisor to the last three presidents on security and other issues, was the most vocal panelist in describing a persistent threat to U.S. security. 

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is looking to Internet users for new ways of getting its cybersecurity message out. And before you ask, the agency says that the method chosen may under no circumstance create spam.

Cardinal Richelieu, chief minister of France's King Louis XIII, is generally credited with saying, If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him

WASHINGTON, USA - An Organization of American States (OAS) Working Group of international experts has issued a series of recommendations on how countries in the Americas may improve cooperation to strengthen their fight against cybercrime after meeting recently at the OAS. The recommendations, which seek to strengthen cooperation between countries of the Americas to prevent, investigate, prosecute and punish cybercrime, are to be evaluated during an upcoming high-level OAS meeting of governments in Brazil.

Imagine your computer stolen containing valuable information, but there is a way for you to track the suspect, even obtaining a photograph Kari Hardre bought Gadget Trak for her son's apple laptop after his first computer was stolen in 2007. Saturday his laptop was stolen again in Springfield. Now they have photos of the suspected thief.