Scott Walters Exploring Stuff » hackers http://swalters.com Looking at IT and adoption issues. Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:02:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Bot Herders Selling Stolen Financial Data to Criminals http://swalters.com/2007/03/bot-herders-selling-stolen-financial-data-to-criminals/ http://swalters.com/2007/03/bot-herders-selling-stolen-financial-data-to-criminals/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:37:39 +0000 ScottWalters http://www.swalters.com/2007/03/20/bot-herders-selling-stolen-financial-data-to-criminals/ Ebusiness means part of your business is in a place where you may be subject to criminal activity that has very low costs of entry, can attack from anywhere in the world, and is very difficult to track and control.

“You can buy a U.S. identity — a credit card, bank account, Social Security, date of birth — for US$20,” by Huger

I liked this article about botnets and how they can be used for identity theft. The quote makes me wonder how the business clearly identifies that the person it is dealing with is indeed the person it thinks it is dealing with.

Refs:

Messmer, Ellen; 19/Mar/2007.; Bot Herders Selling Stolen Financial Data to Criminals.; Chief Security Officer Online; http://www2.csoonline.com/blog_view.html?CID=32583

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