Boom times for hi-tech criminals
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Security experts look back on a year in which hi-tech criminals consolidated their hold on the net's underground economy.
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As more people turn to Web applications for everyday tasks like e-mail, friendship and payments, cyber criminals are following them in search of bank account details and other valuable data, security researchers said.
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Huge crowds in social networking sites draw money-minded malware authors.
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The tech behemoth targets more spammers for lawsuits.
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Criminals deploy zombies herded into netwoks of a few hundred to more than half a million compromised PCs. Uses vary from the simply annoying (spam attacks) to the unsavory and criminal.
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Boom times are ahead for security pros. The information security workforce will expand by an estimated 13.7 per cent annually to reach 2.1m workers by 2008.
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Hackers, spammers and spies go into overdrive in December and January, when unsuspecting neophytes unwrap new computers, connect to the Internet, and, too often, get hit with viruses, spyware and other nefarious programs.
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Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu predicted Wednesday that digital crime and online security threats will skyrocket in 2005 as a result of the rapid growth in portable Internet and mobile technology, and that the technology industry will see a boom in the development of nanotechnology and fuel cell batteries.
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Phishing "toolkits" and underground Internet chat rooms are making the economics of online fraud so much in favor of criminals that a continued increase in phishing activity is all but certain. -washingtonpost.com
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As the world shrinks, international cybercrime is growing in scope and sophistication.
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Online theft of financial information from individuals has become one of the fastest-growing non-violent crimes in the Asia-Pacific region, technology research house IDC says.
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By LARA JAKES JORDAN WASHINGTON - More than 1 million computers - possibly yours, too - are used by hackers as remote-controlled robots to crash online systems, accept spam and steal users' personal information, the FBI said Wednesday.
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INSPECTOR Hacker of the Yard has fingered the collar of a UK man suspected of stealing source code from Cisco Systems in May. Cyber plods from the Metropolitan Police Computer Crime Unit swooped on houses
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Online criminals are getting better at targeting people's sensibility to hack into their computers.
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A technological revolution is making it possible not just to track down escaping bank robbers but to find missing things and people far more quickly and precisely than ever.
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Cyber criminals are cashing in on their expertise by offering tool kits that let anyone craft attacks.
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When virtual crime finds its way into online role-playing games, should real-world authorities step in?