IBM launches security offensive

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 184 KB
• Volume: 2007
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1353-4858
• DOI: 10.1016/s1353-4858(08)70035-7

✦ Synopsis

Gang culture in the online world I t was only a matter of time before hackers pooled their skills and resources to form organised cyber gangs better equipped to spread malware and spam. Clandestine collectives from blackhat strongholds in Eastern Europe, the US and China are emerging. Their tactics may vary but their designs are always the same: to siphon money from consumers and businesses alike by fraud, theft or extortion.