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Data moving to the cloud? Cybercrime will follow
News Schroder also said he gets a fair share of cases involving phishing attempts and email extortion cases. As data moves to the cloud, attackers and thieves will follow, a US federal prosecutor said on Friday. [13 Jul 2009]
Major Online Stock Broker Turns to Verizon Business to Help Stop a Potentially Devastating DDoS Attack
White Paper And, as a major online stock broker found out, the threat of a DDoS attack can be the perfect tool for extortion. Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are often the weapon of choice for would-be criminals who... [30 May 2009]
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. [18 Mar 2009]
London Olympics cyber cops hit the ground running
News We are already seeing fraudulent websites exploiting the Olympics and we are considering what potential there is for hacking or extortion linked to DDoS attacks," she told silicon.com at the IT Directors Disaster... [13 Jan 2009]
Microsoft Anti-Virus - Extortion, Expedience or the Extinction of the AV Industry?
White Paper Off late Microsoft released MSDOS 6.0, which included Microsoft Anti-Virus, a re-branded and ill-conceived entry into the anti-virus industry. It was obvious that Microsoft would become a player in the anti-virus industry at some level. [14 Oct 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... [13 Jun 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... [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... [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... [21 Jan 2008]
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... [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 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... [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... [04 Oct 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... [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... [30 Mar 2006]
