Combating The Cyber Criminals

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Time To Take Down Some Cyber Criminals

Time To Take Down Some Cyber Criminals 06/08/2004 08:17 PM
Writer Bruce Sterling gave the keynote address at a security conference and said that it's time that law enforcement realized that online scams are no longer the result of bored teenagers, but the majority are for-pr ofit enterprises run by organized crime operations. He says that law enforcement still doesn't take online crime seriously enough, and that's letting these online criminals take over. His solution is to get prosecutors who will take down online criminals and make an example of them. In other words, someone needs to take charge and clean up cyberspace.

Cyber-criminals face tougher law

Cyber-criminals face tougher law 07/01/2004 10:10 AM
New Media Age Jul 1 2004 1:40PM GMT

Federal Sweep Nets Spammers,
Cyber-Criminals

Federal Sweep Nets Spammers,
Cyber-Criminals 08/27/2004 01:39 PM
Operation Web Snare has yielded 150 arrests or convictions since it started in June. But will the Justice Department's largest effort yet succeed in stemming cyber-crime?

Police, judges need to learn IT to fight
cyber-criminals

Police, judges need to learn IT to fight
cyber-criminals 05/10/2004 07:07 PM
Philippine Star May 10 2004 11:14PM GMT

Opinion: Stupid Florida Law Protects
Cyber-Criminals

Opinion: Stupid Florida Law Protects
Cyber-Criminals 06/22/2005 02:08 AM
Information Week Jun 20 2005 6:26PM GMT

Police head back to class to hunt cyber
criminals

Police head back to class to hunt cyber
criminals 05/26/2004 10:34 PM
Calcutta Telegraph May 27 2004 1:37AM GMT

Combating the Spread of Hate

Combating the Spread of Hate 06/15/2004 01:37 PM
theWHIR Jun 15 2004 5:26PM GMT

Combating the Rising Cost of Keywords

Combating the Rising Cost of Keywords 08/09/2004 03:03 PM
Source: ClickZ - Does an increase in keyword costs necessarily translate into a decrease in keyword return on investment (ROI)? It better not. If it does, you've figured your ROI structure wrong....

Mandatory Testing Bolsters Botswana in
Combating AIDS

Mandatory Testing Bolsters Botswana in
Combating AIDS 06/13/2004 11:06 PM
Africa's prevailing wisdom is that if Botswana can control AIDS, then other sub-Saharan nations also stand a chance.

Combating Reverse Telnet using OpenBSD
Packet Filter

Combating Reverse Telnet using OpenBSD
Packet Filter 12/30/2003 01:30 AM

Less Cyber, More Cafe: Design
Implications for Easing the Digital
Divide with Locally Social Cyber Cafes

Less Cyber, More Cafe: Design
Implications for Easing the Digital
Divide with Locally Social Cyber Cafes 08/21/2004 12:46 PM
Less Cyber, More Cafe: Design Implications for Easing the Digital Divide with Locally Social Cyber Cafes , by what we can call the Intel Gang.

Whose criminals are they?

Whose criminals are they? 11/17/2003 10:04 PM
Whose criminals are they? Canada and the U.S. are deporting immigrant criminals back to the Caribbean -- criminals who were born there but, in many cases, raised in North America. Whose problem are they? Virtually every Caribbean country feels the burden of the deportations, espe cially from the U.S., which, in 1998, deported 55,500 "aliens" on criminal grounds, 3,700 to the Caribbean. Defenders of the deportations say Canada and the U.S. are just getting rid of bad apples, many of whom shouldn't be here in the first place. But The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) says that, frequently, the deportees have little more than place of birth to connect them to the region. In most cases these deportees have no money, little education, few relatives or friends to whom they can turn, and many are truly violent and lawless. The culture of drugs and guns that many carry back to their native lands is wreaking havoc in nations that receive them in substantial numbers.

Arizona is for Criminals

Arizona is for Criminals 11/15/2003 01:04 AM
Carnage, Arizona, is the one-stop Internet portal for people "tired of having to hunt down all the news and information related to the dark side of Arizona." Daily deaths, death row inmates, and deadbeat dads! (11-15)

Criminals may opt for Voice over IP

Criminals may opt for Voice over IP 06/17/2004 03:52 AM

UK becoming a haven for e-criminals

UK becoming a haven for e-criminals 06/24/2005 08:29 PM

Cameraphones + dumb criminals

Cameraphones + dumb criminals 12/19/2003 11:54 AM
One reader writes in regarding the post today about cellphones placing people at the scenes of crimes:I work for a Federal law enforcement agency and...

Satellite tracking for criminals

Satellite tracking for criminals 09/01/2004 07:34 PM
Prolific offenders and paedophiles are to be monitored using satellites under three pilot schemes.

then get treated like cattle and
criminals

then get treated like cattle and
criminals 09/06/2004 08:12 PM
Gitmo on the Hudson

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Are the Tyco executives criminals?

Are the Tyco executives criminals? 04/09/2004 04:11 PM

The Tyco CEO and CFO are in the news right now after a mistrial (st ory).  Allegedly they looted $600 million from the company.  This sounds bad but if you look at this profile of Tyco, the $600 mil is less than the most recent quarter's income of $720 million and only about 1% of the company's market value of $58 billion.  Let's compare that to some other looters in the news:

• Richard Grasso took $200 million or so that he took from the New York Stock Exchange, a non-profit org.  Grasso's haul is roughly comparable to ten years of profits for the NYSE.  Grasso got his looting approved by his friends on the Board and therefore won't face criminal prosecution though the NY State attorney general is trying to force him to repay some of his booty.
• Jack Welch, in his autobiography, talks about having transferred 30 percent of General Electric from the investors into the hands of "employees" (the lions share to himself and a few other top guys presumably).
• William T. Esrey and Ronald LeMay looted $311 million in one year alone from Sprint, about half of the company's profits in a good year.  They were not prosecuted for their looting but the IRS became upset with their scheme to avoid paying any taxes on this income.

From the very fact of their prosecution we can infer that the Tyco guys did not dot their i's and cross their t's as effectively as the average corporate looter but is there any evidence that their looting was above average?

Hardworking Criminals and Poker

Hardworking Criminals and Poker 12/19/2004 03:06 PM

I attended a client's Christmas lunch yesterday.  Together we were a nice formiddable cluster of forces with lots of proven talents in our own fields -- engineers, executives, lawyers, strategists, and investors.  At one point we talked about the current and near future security landscape and, frankly, the picture looks real good for security technology companies.

Most notable change was that the bad guys are focusing more on ways to attack at the infrastructure level, not only taking advantage of existing vulnerabilities but boldly creating their own.  For example, selling Cisco router clones with compromised firmware means they can gain full control over all the packets passing through those routers anytime they want.

With the world full of bad guys, working hard constantly to create new market opportunities for security companies, profit for those companies hangs in the balance between hope and despair.  With too much of either, disbelief kicks in.  While finding the right balance is difficult to do as a group, security technology market ecosystem is IMHO better than others such as open source market (create a useful jungle of a mess en masse, sell survival manuals and cleanup service), although not as good as the one defense companies have.

It's not just the criminals who are working hard.  Folks at Secunia have discovered another mind-wheeling IE vulnerability.  If you look at how it's implemented (view source on the page), you can see that it takes no more than a few minutes to mimick any website your want with minimal hassle.

If you are in the software business, you shouldn't despair.  The good news (?) is that highly critical vulnerabilities encourage users to update their software at unprecedented rate.  For example, this Acrobat Reader vulnerability, which allows hackers to run their code as soon as someone opens a compromised PDF file available over the web, means everyone with Acrobat Reader should update.

The added bonus for developers is that hassles of supporting legacy code can be easily blasted away with vulnerabilities (we really want to support legacy browsers, but we can't for security reasons) and creates new opportunities (Foo Explorer is full of bugs, get Foofox).

So are we winning the war against hackers?  You bet.  While the flow of vulnerabilities (hole flow?) will not stop until all of us are buried and stomped on for good measure, the good guys are making a lot more money than the bad guys.  Winning is easy if you are more flexible with the definition of 'we'.

Sorry guys.  I am feeling a little sarcastic (insanely optimistic?) today.  Maybe a nap will help.

Anyway, I have a big poker game tonight, a poker tournament finale with winners and runner ups from previous tournaments.  I attended only one tournament but managed to knockout enough players to secure my spot.  Odds are against me though.  Since I attended only one tournament, I don't know most of tonight's players and I haven't had any time to plan my strategy.  On top of that, I had only four hours of sleep last night.  So I'll have to wing it as I go and try to stay awake though the slugging fest.

Children of criminals 'targeted'

Children of criminals 'targeted' 08/15/2004 11:13 PM
Plans to stop youngsters with convict fathers from following them into a life of crime are unveiled.

Criminals target tsunami victims

Criminals target tsunami victims 01/04/2005 10:46 AM
The victims of the Asian tsunami now face a new danger - that of criminals and opportunists trying to cash in on their misfortune.

Digital maps help track criminals

Digital maps help track criminals 03/08/2004 11:23 PM
Crime mapping technology is helping police forces in England stay one step ahead of offenders.

Government FBI unit will take on channel
criminals

Government FBI unit will take on channel
criminals 02/15/2004 10:30 PM
Computer Weekly Feb 16 2004 2:08AM GMT

"Hahahaha...criminals are so
stupid...hahahahaha!"

"Hahahaha...criminals are so
stupid...hahahahaha!" 05/20/2004 02:30 AM

Innocent people dubbed criminals

Innocent people dubbed criminals 04/15/2004 11:37 PM
Nearly 200 people have been wrongly recorded as criminals by the Criminal Records Bureau, BBC News learns.

Computers fiasco could 'free' criminals

Computers fiasco could 'free' criminals 05/02/2004 08:49 PM
Glasgow Herald May 3 2004 0:56AM GMT

Scheme targets prolific criminals

Scheme targets prolific criminals 09/06/2004 08:08 PM
The home secretary launches a scheme to target the country's 5,000 most prolific criminals.

Plan focusing on worst criminals

Plan focusing on worst criminals 07/18/2004 11:20 PM
The 5,000 most prolific criminals in England and Wales are to be heavily targeted as part of a five-year Home Office crime plan.

Blunkett targets worst criminals

Blunkett targets worst criminals 07/19/2004 04:27 AM
The worst anti-social behaviour in England and Wales is to be targeted under a five-year Home Office plan.

Police poster names gun criminals

Police poster names gun criminals 04/30/2004 12:32 AM
Gun criminals in Nottinghamshire are being "named and shamed" in a poster campaign.

Online criminals challenge police

Online criminals challenge police 04/08/2005 04:40 AM
Online crime groups are getting more sophisticated and harder to penetrate, say UK's hi-tech crime busters.

• Online criminals challenge police

• Online criminals challenge police 04/08/2005 09:59 AM
Newshub.com - Fri Apr 8, 08:36 am GMT

Met targets South Asian criminals

Met targets South Asian criminals 06/15/2004 12:15 AM
London's Metropolitan Police are setting up a unit to tackle crime carried out by and on South Asians living in Britain, BBC News learns.

Spam: The Tasteless Internet Meat of
Criminals

Spam: The Tasteless Internet Meat of
Criminals 09/10/2004 04:34 PM
WebDevInfo Sep 10 2004 7:28PM GMT

Crime time Why more and more criminals
are turning to computers

Crime time Why more and more criminals
are turning to computers 05/11/2004 10:16 PM
BBC May 12 2004 2:51AM GMT

Powell Urges Bosnia War Criminals
Capture (AP)

Powell Urges Bosnia War Criminals
Capture (AP) 07/31/2004 12:15 PM
AP - Bosnia's future is being put at risk because indicted war crimes suspects from the bloody Balkan ethnic wars a decade ago continue to escape justice, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Saturday.

Co-operation is vital to tackle hi-tech
criminals

Co-operation is vital to tackle hi-tech
criminals 09/16/2004 07:18 AM
vnunet.com Sep 16 2004 11:12AM GMT

Criminals Thank Judge for Jail Time
(Reuters)

Criminals Thank Judge for Jail Time
(Reuters) 09/10/2004 11:22 AM
Reuters - Two criminals showed their polite side on Friday when they thanked the judge after he sent them to jail for six years each for converting hundreds of blank-firing guns into lethal weapons.
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