Cybercrime Is Getting Organized - Reuters
"Cyberscams are increasingly being committed by organized crime syndicates out to profit from sophisticated ruses rather than hackers keen to make an online name for themselves, according to a top U.S. official.
Christopher Painter, deputy chief of the computer crimes and intellectual property section at the Department of Justice, said there had been a distinct shift in recent years in the type of cybercriminals that online detectives now encounter.
"There has been a change in the people who attack computer networks, away from the 'bragging hacker' toward those driven by monetary motives," Painter told Reuters in an interview this week."
This is a very interesting post whilst not directly about Oracle and Oracle security it says something about how the protection of data should be becoming much more important for any company that stores data in databases.
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September 2006
- Nice post on an undocumented function - Reverse - 09/01/2006 by 09/01/2006
- Interesting post about protecting PL/SQL - 09/03/2006 by 09/03/2006
- I will be speaking at the IT Underground in Rome - 09/04/2006 by 09/04/2006
- Nice idea on audition using trace events - 09/05/2006 by 09/05/2006
- Pete Finnigan podcast interview on Oracle security - 09/07/2006 by 09/07/2006
- Nice network trace tool - 09/08/2006 by 09/08/2006
- Identity theft is becoming main stream - 09/09/2006 by 09/09/2006
- IT Underground conference in Rome cancelled at last minute - 09/12/2006 by 09/12/2006
- Cache missing for fun and profit - 09/15/2006 by 09/15/2006
- Pete Finnigan at UKOUG 2006 - 09/18/2006 by 09/18/2006
- Exploit screencasts - 09/19/2006 by 09/19/2006
- Two years of Oracle Security blogging and still going strong - 09/20/2006 by 09/20/2006
- Only 6% of identity theft can be attributed to data theft. - 09/22/2006 by 09/22/2006
- Eddie on another undocumented function - 09/25/2006 by 09/25/2006
- Security Inside - 09/28/2006 by 09/28/2006
- Security professionals at risk from hacking laws - 09/29/2006 by 09/29/2006
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