Simple Tactics Can Disrupt Internet Underground, Undermine Cyber Crimi nals

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via InformationWeek.

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To reduce cyber crime, the government may want to consider the tactics
employed by the music industry against copyright scofflaws, suggests Jason
Franklin, a Ph.D. student in computer science at Carnegie Mellon
University.

Franklin has co-authored a paper with Adrian Perrig, associate professor at
Carnegie Mellon University, Vern Paxson, associate professor at University
of California, Berkeley, and Stefan Savage, assistant professor at the
University of California, San Diego, which explores the underground hacker
economy.

The paper, "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Internet
Miscreants," measures and analyzes the Internet's black market for
information. It is based on 7 months of observation, from January to August
2006, during which 2.4 Gbytes of Internet Relay Chat (IRC) data was logged.
IRC is one of the main communication channels of cyber criminals who
participate in credit card fraud, identity theft, spamming, and phishing.

The researchers saw over 87,000 credit card numbers traded during this
time; they estimate that the total wealth generated from credit card fraud
over IRC exceeded $37 million.

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More:
http://www.informationweek.com/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=2024043
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Paper:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jfrankli/acmccs07/ccs07_franklin_eCrime.pdf

- - ferg

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