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Police have discovered a new version of the Sasser worm three and a half hours after they arrested an 18-year-old German for writing the program. German authorities that arrested the 18-year-old writer of the Sasser worm, are speculating whether the youth released a modified version of the program. Authors of the Netsky worm are claiming responsibility for the Sasser worm that has infected thousands of computers. The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit has arrested 12 people for money laundering associated with phishing scams. High tech crime police in 11 countries have cracked a multi-million pound software piracy ring. Fighting extortion, paedophilia and identity theft is all in a day’s work for the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit. Dan Ilett talks to its head, Len Hynds. Two years ago, Internet security in the United States changed dramatically when Amazon.com, CNN, Yahoo, E*TRADE, ZDNet and others fell victim to what has come to be known as a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has asked Californian internet users to contact their legislative representatives in connection with two misguided anti-piracy bills that it claims will dramatically curtail their rights to privacy and anonymity. New research from PricewaterhouseCoopers claims to show that economic crime, and cybercrime in particular, are rising in Canada. Service providers are experiencing a constant low-level denial of service from Internet worms. High-tech crime is costing UK business billions of pounds. What is Microsoft thinking of? The company’s laudable goals of Trustworthy Computing have seen great strides made in much of its software, its patching process is improving and security-specific products like ISA Server are getting steadily better. But the firm seems to be having huge difficulty fixing fundamental flaws in Internet Explorer, flaws that are being actively exploited by criminals, and is now considering abandoning standards in what appear to be increasingly desperate attempts to secure the browser. Identity theft email attacks, known as phishing, on internet service providers (ISPs) are causing up to 70.000 phone calls to customer service centres per scam. Over the past twenty years fraudulent activities conducted by African criminal groups have escalated posing a significant threat to email users worldwide. Frequently, the media characterizes computer crimes as those involving hacking (gaining unauthorized computer network access), cracking (another word for gaining unauthorized access to a computer or program), or web page defacing (gaining unauthorized access to a web page and changing its content). Regular readers of SC's Opinionwire will recall me wibbling on about how credit and debit card issuers are moving steadily towards PIN-based authorization of transactions. In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist events in the United States, the fear that malevolent hackers and other criminal perpetrators might unleash a cyberattack on the Internet is becoming an increasing concern. Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes worldwide. From its early beginnings to the present day, insecure emails have consistently caused trouble for their senders and recipients in a variety of ways. Defining what constitutes intellectual property can lead to differences of opinion. Catch Me If You Can isn’t just a fun film that hit the jackpot this spring.