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Offline Kosh

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Internet gangs, students, and cyber-crime
on: December 10, 2006, 12:13:34 am
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-12-08T084820Z_01_L08544066_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-BRITAIN-HACKERS.XML


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Organised gangs have adopted "KGB-style" tactics to hire high-flying computer students to commit Internet crime, a report said on Friday.

Criminals are targeting universities, computer clubs and online forums to find undergraduates, according to Internet security firm McAfee.

Some gangs have sponsored promising students from other disciplines to attend computer courses before planting them in businesses as "sleepers".


McAfee said the students write computer viruses, commit identity theft and launder money in a multi-billion dollar industry that is more lucrative than the drugs trade
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline Rictor

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Re: Internet gangs, students, and cyber-crime
Reply #1 on: December 10, 2006, 12:17:37 am
Revenge of the nerds, baby! Colombian druglords ain't got nothin' on pimply Asian kids with Linux.
 

Offline Turey

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Re: Internet gangs, students, and cyber-crime
Reply #2 on: December 10, 2006, 12:19:12 am
Quote from: Rictor on December 10, 2006, 12:17:37 am
Revenge of the nerds, baby! Colombian druglords ain't got nothin' on pimply Asian kids with Linux.

What happened to all the white nerds? When did we get knocked out of the picture?
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why would an SCP error be considered as news? :wtf: *smacks Cobra*It's a feature.
 

Offline Kosh

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Re: Internet gangs, students, and cyber-crime
Reply #3 on: December 10, 2006, 12:25:23 am
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What happened to all the white nerds? When did we get knocked out of the picture?



When the white jocks were shoving us into lockers or when we were launching botnet attacks on MS.......
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline Turey

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Re: Internet gangs, students, and cyber-crime
Reply #4 on: December 10, 2006, 12:32:53 am
Quote from: Kosh on December 10, 2006, 12:25:23 am
when we were launching botnet attacks on MS.......

* Turey tries to look innocent.
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why would an SCP error be considered as news? :wtf: *smacks Cobra*It's a feature.
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