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We’re losing the war on cybercrime

While news regarding the capture of Albert Gonzalez feeds the press machine for stealing over 130 million credit card information, he is considered “small fish” by those in the security business. The really large cybercriminals are the ones who have established businesses in other countries. Their businesses can rival the size of any of the Fortune 1000. They pay their taxes and operate legally, or at least with turned eye when it comes to the government under which the organizations operate. The Russian Business Network (RBN) is a classic example of this where they partake in spam, malware development, child pornography, large-scale denial of service attacks and BotNets.

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Trojan zaps banking credentials via IM

To counter increased efforts to detect and prevent banking fraud, scammers are working with an ever increasing sense of immediacy. Zeus, a Trojan also known as Torpig and MeBroot, resides on a computer and looks for credentials for when one logs into banking or other financial services websites. Once detected the credentials are sent via instant message (IM) to the hackers. Hackers have thus reduced the amount of time from when malware captures credentials to then they can start using the credentials.

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Whistleblower releases Skype snooping code

Rumors long held regarding how information can be leaked are proven by Swiss-born code. Working as a Trojan the code, after infecting a computer, can record Skype conversations and turn them into MP3 files. The code is being released in hopes that stronger defenses will be created.

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Hackers serve up pre-release malware to Mac fanboys

In the lead up to this Friday’s release of Apple’s new OS, Snow Leopard, hackers have established sites to exploit the OS’ vulnerabilities. Some sites, purportedly offering users the ability to download the OS will find themselves downloading a DNS changer Trojan that will direct users to various malicious sites.

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Bill would give president emergency control of Internet

A bill, quietly making its way through Congress, would grant powers to the US President to declare a cyber emergency. Upon such a declaration private networks deemed critical to the US’ security and infrastructure would come under the control of the US government. In the bill, “Cyber” refers to anything dealing with the Internet, telecommunications, computers or computer networks.

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