Internet scam: gift cards, which were originally purchased online using stolen credit cards, are later converted to “laundered” cash by reselling them on Internet auction and gift card exchange Web sites such as eBay, Craigslist and cardavenue.com.

Hacker-launched malicious programs slip through sophisticated security systems undetected and steal information from the Department of Transportation and several U.S. corporations, a computer security firm said on Monday.

The race to find gold bullion and precious gems worth nearly $43 million dollars heats up after a British researcher claims to have located Field Marshall Erwin Rommel’s long-lost treasure, which was looted from the Jewish community in Tunisia.

Countries around the world are clamping down on phishing as the number of Web sites used to entrap victims continues to increase. Italy has become the latest country to clamp down on phishing, with authorities there arresting 26 people for an alleged scam

The subject of several novels and motion pictures, Venezuelan-born Vladimir Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as Carlos the Jackal, was a notorious terrorist, who is serving a life sentence in France for three murders in Paris in 1975.