[pchelpers] News: Hacker Hunters

 Hacker Hunters
Added by: A^C^E
Date: 22.05.05
Time: 21:34:38
Category: Hackers
Source: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_22...
An elite force takes on the dark side of computing

In an unmarked building in downtown Washington, Brian K. Nagel and 15 
other Secret Service agents manned a high-tech command center, poised 
for the argest-ever roundup of a cybercrime gang. A huge map of the 
U.S., spread across 12 digital screens, gave them a view of their prey, 
from Arizona to New Jersey. It was Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004, and Operation 
Firewall was about to be unleashed. The target: the ShadowCrew, a gang 
whose members were schooled in identity theft, bank account pillage, and 
the fencing of ill-gotten wares on the Web, police say. For months, 
agents had been watching their every move through a clandestine gateway 
into their Web site, shadowcrew.com. To ensure the suspects were at 
home, a gang member-turned-informant had pressed his pals to go online 
for a group meeting.

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