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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kosh on December 10, 2006, 12:13:34 am

Title: Internet gangs, students, and cyber-crime
Post by: Kosh on December 10, 2006, 12:13:34 am
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-12-08T084820Z_01_L08544066_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-BRITAIN-HACKERS.XML


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Organised gangs have adopted "KGB-style" tactics to hire high-flying computer students to commit Internet crime, a report said on Friday.

Criminals are targeting universities, computer clubs and online forums to find undergraduates, according to Internet security firm McAfee.

Some gangs have sponsored promising students from other disciplines to attend computer courses before planting them in businesses as "sleepers".


McAfee said the students write computer viruses, commit identity theft and launder money in a multi-billion dollar industry that is more lucrative than the drugs trade
Title: Re: Internet gangs, students, and cyber-crime
Post by: Rictor on December 10, 2006, 12:17:37 am
Revenge of the nerds, baby! Colombian druglords ain't got nothin' on pimply Asian kids with Linux.
Title: Re: Internet gangs, students, and cyber-crime
Post by: Turey on December 10, 2006, 12:19:12 am
Quote from: Rictor on December 10, 2006, 12:17:37 am
Revenge of the nerds, baby! Colombian druglords ain't got nothin' on pimply Asian kids with Linux.

What happened to all the white nerds? When did we get knocked out of the picture?
Title: Re: Internet gangs, students, and cyber-crime
Post by: Kosh on December 10, 2006, 12:25:23 am
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What happened to all the white nerds? When did we get knocked out of the picture?



When the white jocks were shoving us into lockers or when we were launching botnet attacks on MS.......
Title: Re: Internet gangs, students, and cyber-crime
Post by: Turey on December 10, 2006, 12:32:53 am
Quote from: Kosh on December 10, 2006, 12:25:23 am
when we were launching botnet attacks on MS.......

/me tries to look innocent.