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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
Interesting points by F-Secure with two main issues covered, namely the lack of employment opportunities for skilled IT people who turn to cyber 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...
 
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
 
The Policing Central e-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...
 
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's a crime-filled week in IT land

2008-07-25 00:00:00 by HASH0x8472ec8 in Network World on Security
 
In an unusual week for IT news, headlines were dominated by alleged crime, actual crime and crime that could be in the offing. Technical details of the dreaded DNS flaw were inadvertently released, leading to publication of the attack code, there were more twists and turns in the story of the jailed San Francisco network administrator, and a...
 
Tags: crime, actual crime, dns flaw, countless people, technical details, youtube classic, attack code, prison apparently, unusual week
 
 
 
 
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Italians Use Soldiers to Prevent Crime

2008-08-05 06:36:44 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Interesting : Soldiers were deployed throughout Italy on Monday to embassies, subway and railway stations, as part of broader government measures to fight violent crime here for which illegal immigrants are broadly blamed The conservative government of Silvio Berlusconi won elections in April while promising to crack down on petty crime and...
 
Tags: illegal immigrants, soldiers, police, broader government measures, italys police, favorite logical fallacies, operation safe streets, fight violent crime, silvio berlusconi
 
 
 
 
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Internet crime now targeting consumers

2008-08-13 21:21:28 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
I was of the opinion that most Internet crimes were already targeted at consumers clipped from www.internetnews.com Study Gives States Poor Marks on Cyber Crime Online consumers are now at risk, Ari Schwartz, COO and vice president at the CDT, said in a statement about the reports findings. Internet crime costs basically nothing to execute,...
 
Tags: consumers, internet crime costs, online consumers, reports findings, vice president, highly lucrative, cyber crime, ari schwartz, internet crimes
 
 
 
 
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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
 
On October 16th, in the bowels of the U.S. Capitol Building, the Business Software Alliance organized a briefing on cyber-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...
 
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
 
As I mentioned in a blog post in late October 2007, the IT industry and other stakeholders have been calling for the U.S. Congress to pass legislation that would help empower law enforcement to more effectively investigate and prosecute cyber criminals -- while updating penalties in U.S. criminal code so that the punishment fits the crime. It's...
 
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
 
News here and here : Massive investment in CCTV cameras to prevent 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...
 
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