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After three weeks in the jungle and a week in prison, McAfee goes to Miami

Fake e-commerce sites defrauded shoppers of millions of pounds ahead of Christmas buying season

Mac

Stolen Mackbooks recovered using a mixture of luck, technology and a little quick thinking

An Essex-based security firm is offering to post fake updates on Facebook and Twitter while clients are on holiday

Home secretary Theresa May has revealed planned spending on fighting Internet threats, before a report in Spring

The Obama administration has outlined plans for a private sector-led identity system intended to reduce fraud

Viviane Reding has highlighted a clash between US and European attitudes to data privacy regulation

Facebook is a hotbed of crime, linked to 100,000 calls to police in the UK, according to a report

Cloud

The Information Commissioner's Office says prison sentences should be available for data protection offenders, but has yet to impose a fine

Cloud

The code, inserted by a former employee, was designed to wipe out all data held by the US' federal mortgage association

Legal

Three hackers have been jailed for redirecting traffic from the website of cable operator Comcast

Legal

Law enforcement officials said the suspect launched two phishing attacks against eBay in 2009

Legal

US authorities have for for the first time given a prison sentence to a man charged with hacking voice-over-IP

Cloud

A joint investigation by US federal agencies leads to the conviction of several individuals trading in counterfeit Cisco network hardware

Legal

A mother of a teenager boy is facing harassment charges over allegedly hacking her son's Facebook account