Hacking and cyber crime continue to make the headlines, with ever more divisive attempts in play to steal data from networks and systems. Potentially sizable financial gains are attracting criminals from organised crime and the knowledge being created in this area is giving rise to a new wave of industrial espionage.
In this special report, we examine how businesses can best protect themselves from today’s threats, analyse the latest trends in malware and look at how governments can overcome the challenges in tracking down cyber criminals.
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Photos: Inside the RSA cybercrime war room
Behind the doors at RSA's anti-fraud centre
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Legal Eye: Does Home Office online surveillance go too far?
Or is it a necessary evil?
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Photos: How computing cracks terrorist networks
Spook tech
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Photos: McKinnon "distraught" says family
Nasa hacker supporters vent fury in Home Office protest
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Analysis: A globetrotter's guide to cyber crime
Cyber crime is clearly an international problem. Yet certain parts of the world still get blamed for particular threats. Is there any basis to this? Will Sturgeon takes a trip around the globe to investigate.
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Opinion: What's the point of security?
Security trade shows are booming - but does that mean companies are any safer?
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Analysis: How to catch a cyber criminal? Do it yourself
Though law enforcement has come a long way in fighting e-crime, its efforts are still only scratching the surface and businesses are learning they must build cases against culprits themselves.
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Analysis: What's the next malware threat?
Gone are the days of simple worms and viruses. Now botnets and phishing dominate malware. But what's next? Ron Condon reports.
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Opinion: The fight against e-crime is failing
Though businesses are becoming more aware of the need to invest in security, police and law enforcement are still woefully unprepared to catch cyber criminals, says Simon Moores.
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Leader: UK FBI risks abandoning e-crime victims
If SOCA is going to fight e-crime it needs to make it easier for the public - and business - to report problems. Otherwise it could be kicking the fight against internet crime back into touch.
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Will SOCA kick online fraud into touch?
Tony Blair has launched the UK's very own FBI to fight back against organised crime. But will e-crime get lost in the mix?
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Opinion: What a year it's been for e-crime
Looking back at the past year, it seems the security threats to businesses are only becoming more pervasive and more costly.
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Inside Kaspersky Labs: AV at the cold heart of Russia
It's -40°c outside as I'm driven through the barren, ice-bound outskirts of Moscow to meet up with Russian antivirus company Kaspersky Labs...
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Opinion: Corporate IT - you can help fight cyber crime
Though combating cyber crime is no doubt a matter for international law-makers, it's also something that the IT department in organisations large and small can play a role in.
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Cheat Sheet: Social engineering
Social engineering' refers to the practice of exploiting trends or developments within society to trick people into carrying out a task which is generally to their detriment...
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Cheat Sheet: Phishing
At its simplest level phishing is a case of con artists asking users for their bank account and other personal details and a user obliging.
Police turn to IT industry to help fight cybercrime
Opening communications…
The cost of cybercrime? $1tr
Businesses paying the price…
Corporate IT at risk from knocked-off electronics
What's inside your servers?
Monster users victims of data theft
Job hunters on hackers' radar
Is this the largest security breach ever?
Getting to the Heartland of data loss
Stories from around the web...
Q&A: The man behind Cisco's security CNET News.com
Laws to clamp down on cyber crime BBC News
Hacking made easy Washington Post
Compliance, not malware, drives IT budgets TechWeb.com via InformationWeek
UK security experts fear for loss of high-tech crime unit Times Online
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