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Cybercriminals get stuck into honeypots
News Cybercriminals are increasingly fighting antivirus vendors and each other in pursuit of illegal gain, Kaspersky Lab said on Tuesday. Techniques increasingly used by cybercriminals over 2005 included creating their own packing mechanisms to compress...
[April 4, 2006, 16:25]
MPs: Firms should take fight to cybercriminals
News UK companies should get more support when bringing private prosecutions against suspected cybercriminals, according to the All Party Internet Group (APIG). In a long-awaited report published on Wednesday, APIG said that Britain's Computer Misuse...
[June 30, 2004, 15:15]
Cybercriminals target online gamers
News A spokesman for South Korea's National Police Agency (NPA) told The Korea Times that cybercriminals are becoming increasingly organised, and target online gaming sites in the hope of defrauding the services and converting cybermoney into hard cash.
[August 8, 2003, 17:30]
Blogging sites harbouring cybercriminals
News Cybercriminals are increasingly using blog sites and other free online services to spread malicious code, a security firm has warned. In April, Websense reported that blogging services were being targeted by cybercriminals.
[July 26, 2005, 9:10]
Super-Asbos planned for cybercriminals
News Suspected cybercriminals could also have severe limitations imposed on their financial dealings, requiring them to use "notified financial instruments" such as credit cards and bank accounts, and limit the amount of cash they can carry.
[July 18, 2006, 14:00]
Cybercriminals get stuck into honeypots
Talkback So organized criminals dont want their viruses to end up in honeypots.why don't the antivirus companies simply take out several IP addresses connected to the major ISPs in each country and attach appropriate servers.that way if for example NTL...
[April 5, 2006, 7:55]
Cybercriminals get stuck into honeypots
Talkback you could also make the penalty for writing and spreading virui worth while It is no good hitting them in the wallet they just refill it from the procedes of yet more cybercrime no the punishment needs to be physical painfull harmfull and down...
[April 5, 2006, 13:57]
Super-Asbos planned for cybercriminals
Talkback I don't know about UK, but in the US, you can't call someone a criminal unless they've been convicted of a crime. Under these new proposals, anyone suspected of a crime (which includes anyone convenient) can be subjected to arbitrary limitations on...
[July 19, 2006, 6:13]
Super-Asbos planned for cybercriminals
Talkback We don't like you and you haven't got any powerful friends appears to be missing from the definition, but it is there between the lines. Are these people taking animal farm as a script?
[July 19, 2006, 13:18]
Super-Asbos planned for cybercriminals
Talkback Being an ex-police officer, this is one step closer to big brother. The police, being the police will have the power to twist this to their own ends and police do do that, the same way lawyers twist and find loopholes in the law to get crooks off.
[July 19, 2006, 14:46]
Super-Asbos planned for cybercriminals
Talkback The one bit that stands out like a sore thumb is "spammers". How many applications require you to stop your virus / mails scan software for complete installs. How many users would think of disconnecting the PC from the network first?
[July 19, 2006, 15:57]
Super-Asbos planned for cybercriminals
Talkback Since half the economy or more uses computers and the Internet as an integral part of thier job these powers give the state wide the right half the populace economically ineffective, i.e.to take away thier entire income, on the basis of mere...
[July 19, 2006, 16:09]
Super-Asbos planned for cybercriminals
Talkback From the land that once boasted about "the presumption of innocence" comes "the presumption of guilt". What the hell has happened? Middle of the last century a horrendous war was faught against fascism, and now the former opponents of fascism have...
[July 19, 2006, 16:37]
Super-Asbos planned for cybercriminals
Talkback Why not just throw everyone in prison just in case?
[July 19, 2006, 20:23]
Super-Asbos planned for cybercriminals
Talkback When can we have ASBOs for politicians? It seems to me that they're the biggest problem we have right now. These proposals wouldn't look amiss in any of the (many) totalitarian hellholes elsewhere in the world.
[July 20, 2006, 11:58]
Botnet expert: Cut cash flow to cybercriminals
News Technology is not enough to help the security industry keep botnets from stealing people's money and committing denial-of-service attacks, a top botnet researcher said on Wednesday. His suggestion is: stop the flow of money to their coffers.
[April 23, 2009, 9:31]
Super-Asbos planned for cybercriminals
Talkback I'm seething about this. We have a Scottish Home Secretary whose own constituents will not be affected combined with an unelected (Scottish) Lord Chancellor who only got the job because he's a former flatmate of (Scottish) Tony Blair.
[July 20, 2006, 12:37]
Super-Asbos planned for cybercriminals
Talkback I'm in favour of such measures in principle. Surely the police would have to obtain sufficient evidence or have good solid, beyond a doubt, probable cause to do this? Just in the same manner they can't enter and search a property without a warrant...
[July 18, 2006, 14:32]
Super-Asbos planned for cybercriminals
Talkback Powerfull laws need to be executed by the right people or not become reality at all. Somehow I don't think that the police and courts will suddenly have enough means, skills, experience, tools, insight, training, etc, etc to prevent blunder after...
[July 18, 2006, 23:28]
Blogging sites harbouring cybercriminals
Talkback The real threat of criminal law The law expects every person to act fairly, reasonably and diligently. That is why deviations from these standards are made punishable by the law. One cannot in the zeal of earning profit or in the sense of...
[July 26, 2005, 18:06]
