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Online Crime Seen as Growing Threat to Business, Politics

Submitted by MacRonin on January 23, 2008 - 7:09am.
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Online Crime Seen as Growing Threat to Business, Politics - Via Slashdot:

BobB passed us a link to a NetworkWorld article, exploring the ongoing realization in business circles of the dangers online criminals pose. The piece raises the possibility that criminal elements are gaining access to US research labs in an effort to ferret out corporate and governmental information. One institute referred to in the article states: "Economic espionage will be increasingly common as nation-states use cyber theft of data to gain economic advantage in multinational deals. The attack of choice involves targeted spear phishing with attachments, using well-researched social engineering methods to make the victim believe that an attachment comes from a trusted source." We just recently discussed possible hacker involvement in several municipal blackouts.

(Read Original Article - Via Slashdot.)


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