Symantec uncovers underground cybereconomy
Symantec is warning of a hugely profitable, online underground economy for stolen goods and fraud, where credit card and bank account details are sold and exchanged, following a year-long study.
Cyber-criminals Get Organized
Symantec just released a new way to make us lose sleep at night, called the Symantec Report on the Underground Economy. In case you weren't depressed enough by the regular economy, Symantec will be happy to bum you out about the increasingly organized world of hackers, spammers, and phishers.
Electronic voting could work
There have been a rash of email scams related to the election. Besides the usual nonsense viral emails that describe the candidate of your choice as the boogeyman, complete with “absolute proof” that they eat babies and are BFFs with Osama bin Laden, there are some more dangerous ones floating around.
Student gets jail for crashing university servers
A 22-year-old University of Pennsylvania student has been sentenced to three months in prison and probation time, following a worldwide botnet computer bust.
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