Ross William Ulbricht, the suspected operator of the Silk Road trading site has been arrested in San Francisco.

A recent crackdown on Internet scammers has uncovered over $2.1 billion in fake cheques.

Two spammers from South Korea have been arrested on suspicion of sending out 1.6 billion unsolicited emails over a four month period.

Five students were arrested on Thursday after officials discovered plots to repeat a Columbine style massacre in their school after a threatening message was posted by one of the boys on myspace.com.