computer security experts have met to discuss the extent of crime and
measures should be adopted to enrailler it. Several experts are there
to Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation, Dave Dewalt,
CEO of McAfee, Jonathan Zittrain, a law professor at Harvard and an
expert on the Internet or even Andre Kudelski as head of the eponymous
firm specializing in digital security.
Each year, it is estimated that the cost of fraud on the Internet
amount to one trillion dollars and according to one expert, in the
year 2008, we have seen more vulnerabilities, over fraud the net and
more malware than usual. In all, the threats of last year were more
numerous than those from 2002 to 2007 combined.
In contrast to what has been observed in the past, these frauds are
not the result of a single genius but rather made by real gangs.
Moreover, in recognizing the new face of cybercrime and its economic
potential, a lawyer would have formed a team of 300 people (experts,
lawyers, hackers ...) to sponsor several operations. One of these
virtual groups would have diverted 25 million financial transactions
directly in Ukraine.
Perhaps even more impressive, one expert says that the year 2008 was
truly the beginning of the cyber-war, especially when tensions between
Russia and Estonia, which saw its saturated networks denial of service
and electrical infrastructure outage. "2008 was the year of cyber-war
and showed that it is possible to make a country vulnerable in a few
minutes [...] it's like a virtual revolution, Russia had embarked on
this path and Other hackers have followed suit, "says one.
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