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China's Cyber Militia: Congress in the Cyber-Crosshairs
"This series focused on the threat of 'cyber' espionage against the U.S. government and U.S. corporations, as well as electronic interference with U.S. infrastructure, all by Chinese authorities or groups believed to be working under their auspices."
Tags: hack; cybercrime; hacking; China; online security; cyber-security;
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Zero Day Threat
"Zero Day Threat is a seminal work that explains how the banking industry's decades-long drive to shape a cashless society, built on too-easy credit, collided with the emergence of the Internet to spawn the fast-expanding world of cybercrime."
Tags: cybercrime; banking industry; Internet; web sites; computer crime; internet scams; identity theft; credit bureau; email virus
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The Child Porn Pipeline
Russia and the United states are two major players in child pornography. Russia produces the pornography and the U.S. is able to post images online.
Tags: child porn; child abuse; children; pornography; Internet; online; cybercrime; child exploitation; courts; federal court; state court
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Cybercrime
This series provides "one of the first in-depth looks at how the online criminal community operates and how law enforcement moles are used to ensnare them, using sometimes questionable methods that allow many crimes to flourish under the watch of law enforcement agents and go unpunished."
Tags: cybercrime; online thieves; law enforcement moles; cybercrook; FBI; online finance; data breaches; identity theft; Internet; computer security;
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Cybercrime, Inc.; Meth addicts' other habit: Online theft; Cyber safecrackers break into online accounts with ease; This little fob could foil a cyber bank robber; Net crooks con Americans into web of crime; Unprotected PCs can be hijacked in minutes; The rise of zombie computers -- Are hackers using your PC to spew spam and steal?; Tech industry has no unified defense system
These USA Today reporters set out to delineate the underlying economic drivers of cyber crime. On Sept. 8, 2004, Achohido and Swartz were the first to comprehensively describe how cyber crooks systematically took control of millions of home computers, turning them into zombies to carry out various fraud schemes. An accompanying cover story took big tech suppliers to task for placing an unfair burden on consumers for keeping the Internet safe. A November 30 story reported the results of a honey pot test -- designed and overseen by the reporters -- showing how simply connecting a new PC to the Internet triggers nonstop break-in attempts by intruders. They also outlined what readers can and should do to protect themselves. These findings were only the beginning of their investigation.
Tags: cyber fraud; Internet; online
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Cybercrime Inc.
With increased on-line banking and money transactions comes an increase in cyber-crime. This comes from putting more emphasis on user convenience instead of security. Part of the increase in cyber-crime is also due to meth traffickers, adept at operating localized theft rings, joining forces with global cyber-crime rings. Also some groups, such as those in Russia, are making ordinary citizens unknowing mules to carry out reshipment and money laundering schemes. Law enforcement has been spotty due to cross-jurisdictional hurdles.
Tags: cyber crime; money laundering; meth; on-line banking; computer security; cyber crime rings; law enforcement
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Hacker Hunters
The authors investigated a battle of wits between the U.S. secret service and a cyber-crime gang known as the ShadowCrew. The story covers a rare victory by law enforcement to shut down a web-based crime outfit. It gave a face to the ShadowCrew, a network of over 4,000 people run by a part time college student and gave a reminder to internet users to be wary of doing business on the Web.
Tags: Internet; cyber-crime; web-based crime outfit; ShadowCrew; the U.S. Secret Service; e-business; Internet security
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Internet predators
This KCTV investigation probed the claims of the group Perverted Justice, which exposes men who use the Internet to prey on children. A member of Perverted Justice would pose as a minor in an Internet chat room and wait for an adult man to approach the "minor" about sex. The "minor" would then arrange to meet the man at a home rented by KCTV. After four days, 30 men made appointments to meet the "minor" for sex. Sixteen came to the door and were confronted by the news crew. The investigation showed how prevalent and serious the problem of Internet predators is.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Internet predators; sex crimes; cybercrime; sexual predators
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Net worth from the Cybercrime hour
CBS investigates the new age version of the classic pyramid scheme and how it is effecting many Americans. By relying on thousands of "spam" emails a day, the Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) exploited millions of people by promising riches by exposing the secrets of the wealthy and the ways that the government keeps people poor. CBS also found that IGP was hosting seminars in Mexico where people pay up to $6000 to buy into offshore investment schemes and ways of avoiding tax laws. CBS went undercover with a hidden camera to IGP seminars to uncover the fraud.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPTS; fraud; scams