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E-crime and Socioeconomic Factors

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2008-01-21 07:49:29 by HASH0x8b5217c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...crime to make a living, and the emerging economies across the globe, whose citizens in their early stages of embracing new economic models will suffer from the inevitable unequal distribution of income due to their government's lack of experience or motivation. To me, however, it's more sociocultural than socioeconomic factors that contribute...
 
Tags: malware, code malware, modern malware, malware generators, source tool, source, malware bot, source malware bots, e-crime
 
 
 
 
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E-crime Unit On Track, Says Police Chief

2008-06-13 14:51:22 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...Crime Unit (PCEU) is apparently full steam ahead but, the author of this next article points out one minor detail Wheres the funding From Silicon dot com Funding for PCEU has been slow to arrive, with the government still not committing to its 1.3m start-up costs, despite expectation that the money would be in place months ago It comes after...
 
Tags: article link, pceu, e-crime investigations nationwide, central e-crime unit, article, start-up costs, minor detail, cyber crime, months ago
 
 
 
 
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IT Industry to Congress: Help Needed to Fight Cyber-crime

2007-10-16 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...crime issues that was attended by congressional staff members, industry experts and media representatives. Art Coviello, President of RSA, The Security Division of EMC, delivered the industry keynote; U.S. Representative Steve Chabot (R-OH) provided remarks from a congressional perspective. Congressman Chabot is a co-sponsor of H.R. 2290, the...
 
Tags: malicious botnet attacks, business software alliance, representative adam schiff, representative steve chabot, art coviello, october 16th, cyber security, industry keynote, media representatives
 
 
 
 
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Security World: BSA urges congress to pass cyber crime legislation

2007-12-19 23:38:10 by Editor in Help Net Security - News
 
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) today urged Congress to swiftly enact cyber crime legislation that would update criminal laws to provide law enforcement with much-needed tools to find and prosec
 
Tags: business software alliance, provide law enforcement, criminal laws, bsa, urged congress, tools, prosec
 
 
 
 
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U.S. Congress should pass cyber-crime legislation this year -- when will the House of Representatives finally act?

2008-04-23 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...crime. It's stunning to me that the Congress has not yet sent legislation to the President for his signature to address this important issue
 
Tags: legislation, congress, empower law enforcement, pass legislation, prosecute cyber criminals, crime, criminal code, punishment fits, blog post
 
 
 
 
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London's Cameras Don't Reduce Crime

2008-05-07 06:53:36 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...crime in the UK has failed to have a significant impact, despite billions of pounds spent on the new technology, a senior police officer piloting a new database has warned. Only 3% of street robberies in London were solved using CCTV images, despite the fact that Britain has more security cameras than any other country in Europe Use of CCTV...
 
Tags: cctv, cctv cameras, cameras, cctv images, police, metropolitan police unit, images, senior police officer, officer
 
 
 
 
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The Lack of Attention in the Prevention of Cyber Crime and How to Improve It

2008-05-14 00:00:00 by Editor in Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers
 
This paper, written by Brett Pladna, discusses the issues of cyber crime and what is being done to prevent it
 
Tags: cyber crime, brett pladna, issues, discusses, prevent, paper
 
 
 
 
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Electronic Crime Scene Investigation Handbook

2008-05-30 11:01:01 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Electronic Crime Scene Investigation: A Guide for First Responders, Second Edition , National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, April 2008 Mostly basic stuff
 
Tags: justice, basic stuff, national institute, department, april, edition, guide, responders
 
 
 
 
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U.K's Crime Reduction Portal Hosting Phishing Pages

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2008-06-02 00:29:38 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Crime Reduction Portal which is currently hosting a phishing page - crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/ alcoholorders/Archive070410/poste/cartepr What's special about this incident is that it's becoming increasingly common to come across phishing sites that have been remotely-file-included or SQL injected at vulnerable sites . In ca you...
 
Tags: crime reduction portal, sites, vulnerable sites, tactics phishers, poste italiane, increasingly common, police academy, highly visible, shadow infrastructure