Cybercrime

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 30 days ago
USATODAY.com - He goes by the nickname A-Z and is one of Russia's bright young tech stars. He's a crack programmer, successful entrepreneur and creator of sophisticated software tools that help his customers make millions. ...

Source: www.forbes.com --- 9 days ago
Cybersecurity researchers say that almost half of all password-stealing programs now target online gamers. ...

Source: blog.wired.com --- 7 days ago
(((I have to wonder if this British criminal justice professor has ever studied cybercriminals who don't read scifi novels in English. I mean, we cyberpunks did our best -- some of our best sources in the 80s were criminal justice professors -- but you could pore through the cyberpunk canon and you'd never find much about today's giant botnet spam engines.))) (((I also note the conspicuous absence of HACKER CRACKDOWN from his bibliography. Kinda odd that he would overlook the only nonfiction book about computer crime written by a cyberpunk novelist.))) (((I guess I can forgive him because he's quoting Baudrillard. A sure sign that he's more into semiotics and cultural transgression than he is in the merely factual existence of cybercriminals who are stealing a living from the rest of us every day.))) Link: Cyberpunked: Cyberpunk Increases Our Fear of Cybercrime . Last week, experts at a Sicilian conference on planetary emergencies warned us to expect certain doom from cyberattacks, an apparent time bomb that could come from any one of the billions of minds ticking away on Planet Earth. But according to Cybercrime and the Culture of Fear: Social science fiction(s) and the production of knowledge about Cybercrime, a paper published this summer by University of Leeds criminal justice professor David S. Wall, not only is the threat of Cybercrime is grossly exaggerated, it’s “social" science fiction, especially cyberpunk, that planted ...

Source: www.usatoday.com --- 9 days ago
Iraq's government is engaged in a bloody struggle against al-Qaeda, and its computers make a prime target for global terror networks ... ...

Source: www.theregister.co.uk --- 25 days ago
Clear and present danger Analysis UK police arrests of a gang reckoned to have tampered with Chip and PIN entry devices to harvest PIN numbers and cardholder details have sparked calls to revamp the security of devices.… ...

Source: www.theglobeandmail.com --- 19 days ago
TJX scam shows international flavour of today's underground networks makes punishing all those responsible extremely difficult ...

Source: www.rotman.utoronto.ca --- 15 days ago
There's a special place in heaven for people who try to tally up the losses from Cybercrime, said an article in the August 22 issue of Business Edge . They're generally trying to pry information about something that's not really well defined from sources that don't really want to talk about it. And, arguably, the best computer crimes are so deftly executed that they are never discovered at all. So it's worth celebrating when we get any kind of credible data about this problem. It's even better when that data is Canada-specific, and when we have not one, but two studies to compare. They're even available for you to read. IT security breaches are costing publicly traded Canadian companies an average loss of more than $637,000 annually, say researchers from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and Vancouver-based Telus Corp. They reached this conclusion by running focus groups, then sending letters and emails to several hundred security professionals across Canada. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 25 days ago
Computer Crime Research Center Aug 13 2008 10:01AM GMT ...

Source: blogs.kansascity.com --- 18 days ago
The Washington Post has a good Q-and-A here with the head of the FBI's Cybercrime division. I liked his answer when asked if the FBI should be doing more to educate the public about Cybercrime. Snip: I think the government... ...

Source: linuxtoday.com --- 33 days ago
Help Net Security: "...Internet-based risks are a serious concern as they can be used to disseminate misinformation, defraud candidates and the public and invade privacy." ...

Source: isc.sans.org --- 34 days ago
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Source: www.earthweb.com --- 31 days ago
The world of global connectivity has spawned a vast new network of criminal enterprise. ...

Source: www.abcactionnews.com --- 24 days ago
The Florida Attorney General's Cybercrime unit has arrested Joel Matthew Cupp for Internet solicitation of someone he thought was a child. ...

Source: www.it-analysis.com --- 24 days ago
By: Nigel Stanley , Practice Leader - IT Security , Bloor Research Posted: 13th August 2008 Copyright Bloor Research © 2008 Advertisement: How often do you speak with a criminal? Despite assertions on the BBC the other day that 25% of the working population has a criminal record the vast majority of these are spent convictions, so the chances are you don't often speak with regular villains unless you happen to work in law enforcement or are a gangster yourself. So it was with interest that I read the latest report from Finjan ( www.finjan.com ) the web gateway security people, called Web Security Trends Report Q2 2008. Far from being a dry report full of facts and figures on web crime the report has some interesting reproductions of online conversations with members of the criminal underworld, in all their ineloquent glory. The strong message emerging from the report is the final maturing of the Cybercrime fraternity into regular businesses, albeit illegal, with almost identical structures to corporations operating legitimately. The "hack for fame" mentality has now been replaced with a "hack for profits" mindset that would enthuse any legitimate CEOs. Indeed some of these Cybercrime businesses are now modelled on La Cosa Nostra, probably the poster child of organised crime. Moving on from the dubious glamour of Cybercrime the reality hits home when one considers the scale of attacks against websites being executed in the latest w ...

Source: rosinstrument.com --- 24 days ago
Helping shield business from Cybercrime - Houston Business Journal. They can hide themselves, not only using Internet technology but using their jurisdiction. For example, if they’re from some Eastern Bloc country, ... ...

Source: www.circleid.com --- 23 days ago
Disintermediating the intermediaries in the Cybercrime ecosystem, ultimately results in more profitable operations. Controversial to the concept of outsourcing, some cybercriminals are in fact so self-sufficient, that the stereotype of a mysterious 76service server offered for rent could in fact easily cease to exist in an ecosystem so vibrant that literally everyone can portion their botnet and start offering access to it on a multi-user basis. Evil? Obviously. Extending the lifecycle of a proprietary malware tool? Definitely. The infamous 76service , a Cybercrime as a service web interface where customers basically collect the final output out of the banking malware botnet during the specific period of time for which they've purchases access to the service, is going mainstream, with 76Service's Spring Edition apparently leaking out, and cybercriminals enjoying its interoperability potential by introducing different banking trojans in their campaigns. In this post, I'll discuss the 76service's spring.edition that has been combined with a Metaphisher banking malware , an a popular web malware exploitation kit , with two campaigns currently hosting 5.51GB of stolen banking data based on over 1 million compromised hosts 59% of which are based in Russia. Screenshots courtesy of an egocentric underground show-off. Some general info on the 76service : "Subscribers could log in with their assigned user name and password any time during ...

Source: www.pensacolanewsjournal.com --- 22 days ago
Videos, hundreds of photos found at local man's home. ...

Source: www.net-security.org --- 34 days ago
As citizens of the United States prepare to cast their votes in the upcoming presidential election, the time is right to consider what implications, if any, Internet-borne threats may have on this pro... ...

Source: www.siliconrepublic.com --- 3 days ago
Global terrorism and organised crime have moved online and the most important message Global Security Week 2008 is trying to get out to businesses and individuals alike is that Cybercrime is no longer the domain of the mostly harmless, teenage computer whizz but has long since gone professional and needs to be tackled from this perspective. ...