Telecom NZ sign up to internet filter 

Telecom NZ sign up to internet filter

In Risk - 3 November 2010 2:35 PM
Blocks child abuse materials.
Facebook offers panic button 

Facebook offers panic button

In Web/client - 13 July 2010 8:44 AM
Site reaches agreement with UK child welfare agency.
AFP to beef up internet child protection unit 

AFP to beef up internet child protection unit

In Risk - By Ry Crozier, 28 May 2010 12:12 PM
Allocates funds in final internal budget.
AFP and Telstra to fight hi-tech crime 

AFP and Telstra to fight hi-tech crime

In Hackers - 10 December 2008 8:50 PM
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Telstra will increase cooperative efforts to reduce hi-tech crimes like identity fraud, phishing, botnet networks and attacks on public ...
Child gymnast exposed by hacker 

Child gymnast exposed by hacker

In Risk - By Nick Farrell, 22 August 2008 12:02 PM
China's dual gold medal winning gymnast He Kexin is under aged and should have been banned from competing at the Olympics.
Paedophile internet ‘librarian’ jailed indefinitely 

Paedophile internet ‘librarian’ jailed indefinitely

In Hackers - By Iain Thomson, 19 August 2008 11:32 AM
A 27-year-old British man has been jailed indefinitely for acting as an online librarian for a child pornography win.
HMRC slammed over child benefit fiasco 

HMRC slammed over child benefit fiasco

In Risk - By Guy Dixon, 27 June 2008 9:55 AM
No visible management of data security at any level, concludes Poynter review.
Teacher amongst 70 arrested for downloading child porn 

Teacher amongst 70 arrested for downloading child porn

In Hackers - 5 June 2008 12:08 PM
The AFP today announced is has arrested 70 people and summoned a further 20 to court for allegedly downloading child porn images from a worldwide network. Amongst those ...
US school network falls victim to child hacker 

US school network falls victim to child hacker

In Risk - By Richard Thurston, 27 May 2008 2:12 PM
Local authority races to upgrade its system security as the second teenager in five months breaches its network defences, copying 55,000 records
Qantas defends online security amidst child pornography case 

Qantas defends online security amidst child pornography case

In Web/client - By Ashley Clark, 19 May 2008 2:55 PM
Qantas claims it provides "more than adequate" online security even though a man was found guilty of having accessed child pornography in its Melbourne Airport lounge last year.
Child porn hacker sentenced to 110 years in prison 

Child porn hacker sentenced to 110 years in prison

In Hackers - By Dan Kaplan, 4 December 2007 10:44 AM
A North Carolina man was sentenced to more than a century in prison after he seeded teens' computers with trojans and then demanded the victims provide him with nude photographs...
Facebook subpoenaed over child grooming 

Facebook subpoenaed over child grooming

In Hackers - By Iain Thomson, 26 September 2007 10:03 AM
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is taking action against Facebook for allegedly failing to stop sexual predators using the site.
Global online child porn ring smashed  

Global online child porn ring smashed

In Hackers - 19 June 2007 10:00 AM
Four Australians arrested and a further two people are facing court after an international operation.
NSW man charged with child pornography offences 

NSW man charged with child pornography offences

In Web/client - 15 June 2007 2:07 PM
The Australian Federal Police has arrested a NSW man for online child pornography offences.
Hackers spread child porn through message boards 

Hackers spread child porn through message boards

In Networks - By Fiona Raisbeck, 13 June 2007 9:39 AM
Hackers have spread child pornography by infecting online message boards, experts claim.
Child porn suspects may have been fraud victims 

Child porn suspects may have been fraud victims

In Risk - By Fiona Raisbeck, 11 May 2007 9:44 AM
Hundreds of people questioned by police as part of an internet child pornography inquiry may have been innocent victims of credit card fraud, an investigation has found.
Germans track child porn in Second Life 

Germans track child porn in Second Life

In Web/client - By Matt Chapman, 10 May 2007 2:07 PM
Virtual sex with minors and real child pornography images being traded.
Surge in severe child abuse images online 

Surge in severe child abuse images online

In Web/client - By Fiona Raisbeck, 18 April 2007 9:59 AM
The number of images depicting extreme child abuse has quadrupled over the past three years, according to the latest figures from the UK's internet watchdog.
Poll: Child abuse suspicion no excuse for hacking 

Poll: Child abuse suspicion no excuse for hacking

In Risk - By Fiona Raisbeck, 1 March 2007 12:45 AM
Nearly two-thirds of computer users are against illegally infecting or hacking into a computer, even if it is suspected of belonging to a paedophile, a new poll shows.
US Judge sentenced to prison for child porn 

US Judge sentenced to prison for child porn

In Hackers - By Ericka Chickowski, 22 February 2007 10:32 PM
A former judge was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison on Tuesday for possession of child pornography that was initially found by a Canadian hacker vigilante who tipped ...
Spammers scam child protection group to propagate trojan 

Spammers scam child protection group to propagate trojan

By Dan Kaplan, 22 August 2006 7:00 PM
Emails that appear sent by an anti-child pornography nonprofit group - but in fact are being delivered by spammers - are trying to use scare tactics to get unsuspecting ...
Nebraska child support network hacked 

Nebraska child support network hacked

By Dan Kaplan, 29 June 2006 9:56 PM
A hacker on Wednesday hijacked a server on the Nebraska’s child support payment computer system, gaining access to the personal information of more than 300,000 individuals and ...
Internet industry unites against child pornography  

Internet industry unites against child pornography

By William Eazel, 22 March 2006 10:15 AM
In a bid to clamp down on internet child pornography, 18 of the world's most prominent financial institutions and internet firms have joined with the International Centre for ...
U.K. clamps down on online child porn  

U.K. clamps down on online child porn

By William Eazel, 8 March 2006 9:34 AM
The number of web-based child abuse images hosted from U.K. servers has plummeted from 18 percent of all child abuse images found on the internet in 1997 to just 0.4 percent ...
Sober turns in child porn owner 

Sober turns in child porn owner

By William Eazel, 21 December 2005 2:04 PM
An alleged German child porn offender has turned himself in to authorities after mistaking an email sent by the Sober computer worm as an official warning that he was being ...
UK government aims to pull plug on online child abuse  

UK government aims to pull plug on online child abuse

By William Eazel, 17 November 2005 11:26 AM
Whitehall has published new guidance designed to protect children using web chatrooms and search engines. The Home Office said it has joined forces with UK internet service ...
BT blocks child porn 

BT blocks child porn

By Dan Ilett, 7 June 2004 3:57 PM
British Telecom is to block thousands of its users from accessing child pornography websites.
BT blocks child porn 

BT blocks child porn

By Dan Ilett, 7 June 2004 3:56 PM
British Telecom is to block thousands of its users from accessing child pornography websites.
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