Tuesday, April 06, 2004
Extortionists take out UK gambling site | The Register
New styles of criminal activity are starting to affect the internet with greater regularity. From spam adverts through to email scams, we are now moving to extortion and relatively simple to set up, hard to defend against attacks that use infected PCs to launch DoS attacks against other sites.
It is clear that "policing" the internet is going to become a more important role, and that all organisations are likely to have to invest heavily in approaches to defeat these sorts of malicious acts. Interaction will never be the same again.
New styles of criminal activity are starting to affect the internet with greater regularity. From spam adverts through to email scams, we are now moving to extortion and relatively simple to set up, hard to defend against attacks that use infected PCs to launch DoS attacks against other sites.
It is clear that "policing" the internet is going to become a more important role, and that all organisations are likely to have to invest heavily in approaches to defeat these sorts of malicious acts. Interaction will never be the same again.
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