Cybercrooks are moving into industrial espionage in a big way, hunting for intellectual property and other sensitive information. Once they have the material in hand, they can either use it to gain a competitive advantage for their own company — or auction it off to the highest bidder.
Cybercrime: Is Your Firm on the Hit List?
February 10th, 2008 · Comments Off
Tags: · cyber security, cybercrime, Internet security
Computer Forensics Faces Private Eye Competition
January 4th, 2008 · Comments Off
The Internet is boundless and cybercrime scenes stretch from personal desktops across the fiber networks that circle the globe. Digital forensic investigators like Harold Phipps, vice president of industry relations at Norcross Group in Norcross, Ga., routinely slip across conventional geographic jurisdictions in pursuit of digital evidence and wrongdoers.
Tags: · Computer Forensics, cybercrime, Hacking
Cybercrime: How online crooks put us all at risk
December 18th, 2007 · Comments Off
Somewhere in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city, a tiny startup has struck Internet gold. Its dozen-odd employees are barely old enough to recall the demise of the Soviet Union, but industry analysts believe they’re raking in well over $100 million a year from the world’s largest banks, including Wells Fargo and Washington Mutual.
Tags: · cybercrime, Malware, online crooks, phishing, rock phish