If someone tried to scam you, the Australasian Consumer Fraud Task Force (ACFT) and the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) want to hear from you.

  A surveillance system in the Melbourne inner suburb of Footscray led to 18 arrests before it was commissioned.  

Online Aussies lost a total of at least AUD $70m throughout 2009 as a result of online scams, and while people should really know better these days, the scam spam and other online scams remain rife in the quest to defraud you in your offline and online life.

A major insurer says electronic gadgets including cameras and MP3 players have displaced jewellery as the items most commonly stolen.

We've all heard of software that's designed to help track stolen notebooks. But the remote management software you're already using may be able to do the same job at no extra cost.

Hi! I'm a PC. I'm a Mac. And I'm a stolen iPhone from Belgium!

A number of iPhones in the Netherlands have been held hostage for a small ransom by a hacker.

In a sign of how compelling social networking has become, Jonathan G. Parker of Fort Loudon, Pennsylvania stopped to log into Facebook - on the computer in the house he was allegedly robbing at the time.

Fresh from saving two girls from an Adelaide drain, the changing face of Facebook has taken another turn after the website was used to organise a racially-charged riot in NSW last week.

Trevor Bayliss is perhaps most famous for inventing the wind-up radio, but now he's getting wound up about intellectual property rights.