Laws, investigations and ethics

Tata Communications has disconnected several carriers as part of its proactive actions to stamp out this form of fraud.

Melissa Hathaway sees no future in cybersecurity without the cooperation of both private and public sectors and the government.

Police in the Chinese capital have detained a 39-year-old man they said extorted cash from companies after launching distributed denial-of-service attacks on their Websites.

A Hong Kong businessman has pleaded guilty for his part in a scam where tens of millions of spam messages were sent, artificially pumping up the stock prices of Chinese companies between 2004 and 2006.

Any wireless electronic device is subject to eavesdropping or infection, but the risk increases dramatically when traveling to countries where a device connects to a local service provider which may be government-controlled.