How to Stop Cyber crooks: Take Their Pals to Court - #cybercrime

No one knows exactly how big the cybercrime underground is. But it is huge. According to the British government, online thieves, scammers, and industrial spies cost U.K. businesses an estimated $43.5 billion in the last year alone. Crooks-for-hire will infect a thousand computers for seven dollars – that's how simple it's become. 60,000 new malicious software variants are detected every day, thanks in part to a new breed of crimeware that makes stealing passwords about as hard as setting up a web page. Even the Pentagon's specialists are worried, noting in their new cybersecurity strategy that "the tools and techniques developed by cyber criminals are increasing in sophistication at an incredible rate.

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