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RSS extortionScalability, Fidelity, and Containment in the Potemkin Virtual Honeyfarm
White Paper Such infections are at the root of modern scourges including DDoS extortion, on-line identity theft, SPAM, phishing, and piracy. The rapid evolution of large-scale worms, viruses and bot-nets have made Internet malware a pressing concern. [11 Jul 2008]
Botnets: The New Threat Landscape
White Paper The rise of consumer broadband has greatly increased the power of botnets to launch crippling Denial of Service (DoS) attacks on servers, infect millions of computers with spyware and other malicious code, steal identity data, send out vast... [03 Jul 2008]
Are we losing the security war?
Comment So you'll understand why I discovered in Italy that they are rather unhappy about a series of recent exploits they believe are targeting their large companies for either purposes of espionage, extortion or simply the theft of trade secrets. [29 Apr 2008]
Cyber-extortion on the rise - but targets the 'fringe'
News Security expert Bruce Schneier has warned that cyber-extortion is on the rise, but gave the caveat that it mainly affects "fringe" industries, such as online gambling, rather than critical national infrastructure organisations. [24 Jan 2008]
CIA: Cyberattacks cut power to "multiple cities"
News Donahue said: "We have information, from multiple regions outside the US, of cyber-intrusions into utilities, followed by extortion demands. The CIA has said a cyberattack caused a power blackout in multiple cities in a country outside the US. [21 Jan 2008]
A Middleware System for Protecting Against Application Level Denial of Service Attacks
White Paper Off late, there has been an increase in the number of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against online services and web applications either for extortion reasons, or for impairing and even disabling the competition. [23 Jun 2007]
Q&A: Kimmo Alkio, CEO, F-Secure
News There was a lot of talk about extortion a couple of years ago, with criminals threatening to take down businesses' websites if a ransom wasn't paid. Kimmo Alkio, CEO of F-Secure, recently rejoined the antivirus vendor from fellow Finnish company... [01 Jun 2007]
How organized crime is profiting from the Internet
White Paper Organized crime is capitalizing on every opportunity to exploit new technology to perform classic crimes such as fraud and extortion to make money illegally. Cybercrime is no longer in its infancy. It is now big business. [16 May 2007]
How organized crime is profiting from the Internet
White Paper Organized crime is capitalizing on every opportunity to exploit new technology to perform classic crimes such as fraud and extortion to make money illegally. Cybercrime is no longer in its infancy. It is now big business. [16 Apr 2007]
Fair Wi-fi: Consumers getting raw deal
Comment Hotels are, of course, in the business of making money but there is a fine line between helping the bottom line and extortion. Lending his support to silicon.com's 'Fair Wi-fi' campaign Adam Raphael, editor of influential hotel bible The Good Hotel... [20 Feb 2007]
William Hill fights back against the hackers
News The UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit eventually smashed a Russian gang involved in the online extortion racket and money laundering but the threat hasn't entirely disappeared. The entire online betting industry faces an ongoing battle in the fight... [04 Oct 2006]
CounterSpy Enterprise: Active Protection
White Paper Organized cyber crime can steal personal employee information or worse, user names and passwords as a vector to hack into your organization and run their "cyber extortion" racket. Spyware has become the new major headache for IT. [14 Apr 2006]
Will SOCA kick online fraud into touch?
Comment Just look at the extortion rackets and the spamming that goes on. Tony Blair has launched the UK's very own FBI to fight back against organised crime. The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) is to bring 4,000 specialist agents together and the... [04 Apr 2006]
Vendors failing to secure applications
News Paller said he had recently seen cases of criminal gangs recruiting hackers by threatening to harm their families unless they agree to carry out denial of service extortion attacks. Paller said the FBI is currently receiving more than one report of... [30 Mar 2006]
'Criminals, not terrorists, pose greatest net threat'
News If you look at ID theft and extortion - it still goes on. Security expert Bruce Schneier has warned that talk of cyber terrorism could have a damaging effect on levels of IT security. Schneier said officials claiming that terrorists pose a serious... [24 Nov 2005]
