[pchelpers] Report: Cybercrime is Winning the Battle Over Cyberlaw

Brian Krebs on Computer Security
Law enforcement agencies worldwide are losing the battle against cyber
crime at a time when criminals are increasingly using the global
economic downturn to make headway in recruiting more computers and
computer users to further illegal online activities, a scathing new
report from security vendor McAfee concludes.

McAfee's annual "Virtual Criminology Report" (PDF) notes that the number
of compromised PCs used for blasting out spam and facilitating a host of
online scams has quadrupled in the last quarter of 2008 alone, creating
armies of spam "zombies" capable of flooding the Internet with more than
100 billion spam messages daily.

More here:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/12/report_cybercrime_is_winning_t.html?nav=rss_blog
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