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According to USA Today, hackers and phishers have a little less job security these days thanks to an FBI and Secret Service that are more focused and nimble in their efforts to crack down on Internet security scofflaws. Add in a little cooperation from foreign-based law enforcement from countries like Romania, Turkey and Germany, and the ne'er-do-wells of the 'net aren't netting as much pilfered "e-loot" as they'd like.
Online crime is an estimated $200 billion per year market, and during tough economic times the efforts of cyber criminals are expected to increase. The FBI and Secret Service though have made significant inroads during the last year into busting up some serious crime rings by getting indictments on some high-profile spammers and the folks behind the computer break-in of TJX and other companies. They say their success comes from better training for more agents who stalk the online scammers.
The international effort is also the result of better training and communication – and stiffer penalties for those who get caught.
"It's not a question of whether you will be caught, but when," Hemanshu Nigam, chief security officer of MySpace, told USA Today. [Source: USA Today.]
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Subscribe to commentsmadsahaderNov 18th 2008 9:09AM
I've got half a dozen letters from 'my brothers in Christ' in Nigeria in my spam box right now telling me how to collect the millions that are waiting for me in various banks. I even got one the other day from the FBI warning me that I was breaking the law by not accepting the millions they had mistakenly intercepted from my dear departed uncle in Nigeria.
XenaNov 18th 2008 11:34AM
What's wrong with security from AOL, FTC and other internet spam reporting? Their responses are sooo slow!! Also AOL failed to protect their customers when their screennames were hacked in, using buddy list fooling other thinking it's one of the friends on buddy list, telling me that I've won $$$ and blah blah. I knew right away as I forwarded to their personal email (other than AOL's) they know security was being compressed. Say to the hacker, "Why were you doing after my friend's?? We will GONNA GET YOU! I KNOW FBI & OTHER HACKERS!" That gave them good spook & got them offline. I warned many of my friends, especially deafs after some reports from scammer(s) claiming they've helped deafs people (see those english deaf people don't use!) Pffth!