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Police will only investigate tweets amounting to 'serious harassment'

Chief constable says police need to take a 'common sense' approach to online abuse, after arrest of 17-year-old for posting offensive tweets

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Huge rise in staff theft of customer data from workplace

Fraud-prevention service says economic problems lead more employees to steal customer data leading to identity theft

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Antivirus vendor Symantec takes backstage role in web crime thriller

Creators of Norton range provide advice to new show from creators of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

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Sussex Police operation to lure phone thieves shows people's good nature

Thieves don't prosper as public hand in 'lost' phones to staff in pubs and bars

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Yahoo hacked with nearly half a million passwords made public

People urged to change Yahoo passwords as hackers dump unencrpted passwords and account details online

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Rogue app found in Apple App Store and Google Play

Malware steals mobile phone contacts

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Microsoft researcher believes cyber criminals have created Android botnet

Android botnet the likely culprit in Yahoo account spam

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Home Office warns cyber crime a growing threat to UK

Cyber terrorism and crime is a widespread threat, warns Home Office

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CIFAS warns 86 per cent of card fraud is now carried out online

Security prevention service finds a rise of over a quarter in the last year

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Jimmy Wales campaigns to stop Richard O'Dwyer extradition

Wiki founder says student should not face charges in the US

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Latest appeal in Twitter joke case heard in High Court today

Paul Chambers made another appeal to the High Court today to overturn his conviction for a joke tweet about bombing Doncaster's Robin Hood airport in December 2009

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Lulzsec members plead guilty to website attacks

Two British men admit launching attacks on websites

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Internet troll gets suspended sentence for threatening MP

Frank Zimmerman found guilty of sending menacing communication to Louise Mensch but says hackers hijacked his email account

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