Dragging the Net for Cyber Criminals
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In an attempt to stem the growing tide of online scams, identity theft and the proliferation of junk e-mail, the Justice Department and state law enforcement officials have initiated what
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Targeted spyware, network break-ins, and other digital crime pushes cyber espionage to a new level of concern.
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Federal officials are trying to prosecute operators of Web sites that recruit terrorists.
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Federal law enforcement may be heralding Operation Web Snare as the largest cyber-crime crackdown of its kind, but it is receiving mixed reviews on whether it will stymie the rise in Internet fraud.
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Some years ago, I got a job doing network support for the District Attorneyâs office in a large city that shall remain nameless. When I arrived, the network was a mess! Malware was rampant, Internet and WAN connections were saturated, and users were constantly complaining about slow computers and network performance. Even so, my attempts to enforce a mindful security policy were met with fierce resistance. The attitude among the legal staff was, âThis is my computer and my network; youâre just a computer janitor.â
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Cyber rights hacking group creates browser that makes it possible to surf the net anonymously.
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In the calculus of Internet crime, two of the most sought-after commodities are zombie PCs and valid e-mail addresses.
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Malicious hackers tout a site with an strip show download to entice victims to download malware.
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Security researchers studying the latest Internet crime trends have discovered a new Eastern European website that uses a large botnet to infect vulnerable PCs. The operators of the botnet and website charge clients for each successful PC infection.
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A NEW level of cyber-crime potential looms ahead as increasingly sophisticated attackers aim to steal intellectual property, personal identities and the contents of bank accounts across international borders, and within organisations and social networks.
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Among the more than 150 cybercrime arrests and convictions announced Thursday by the Department of Justice was an original: the nation&#39;s first case alleging denial of service attacks against competitors to knock them offline.
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Researchers in the U.S. say they've shown how a network designed to make it harder to trace Internet surfers could be compromised.
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The Justice Department announced yesterday that more than 150 people had been arrested, charged or convicted in the last three months in a wide-ranging sweep of criminal activity on the Internet.
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Â· Internet industry asked to help curb illegal materialÂ· Terror bill proposes new powers against suspects
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In March 1990, when few people had even heard of the Internet, U.S. Secret Service agents raided the Texas offices of a small board-game maker, seizing computer equipment and reading customers&#039; e-mail stored on one machine. A group of online pioneers already worried about how the nation&#039;s laws were being applied to new technologies became even more fearful and decided to intervene.
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Tens of thousands of legitimate Web sites now function as weapons for Internet criminals, security vendors said Monday.
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Preserving the digital crime scene poses one of the biggest challenges in the global fight against cybercrime, said participants this week at a major international conference on fighting Internet-based crime.