Time Magazine's History of Cybercrime

KarmaDoodle · Post by **KarmaDoodle** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 12:38 pm

Has anyone read the article in Time Magazine, A Brief History of Cybercrime? They published after President Obama announced that he will name a White House-level czar to coordinate government efforts to fight cybercrime. It gives details on cyberattacks that have happened in recent years and I thought it was really interesting.

McAfee has been working to educate people on the dangers of cybercrime through their Stop H*Commerce campaign and web documentary. I've been doing some work with them and it's amazing how simple it is for a hacker to gain access to personal information. Has anyone seen the videos?

Rapunzel · Post by **Rapunzel** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 4:36 am

Do they teach you how to hack?

KarmaDoodle · Post by **KarmaDoodle** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:57 am

Hahaha, no... it's more to make people aware that cybercrimes can happen to anyone and how to protect their home computer networks. Take a look at the videos if you get a chance - it's really interesting/crazy to see what types of scams and cybercrimes occur.

Post by **spot** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 12:25 pm

I put up a thread last year at http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/compu ... urity.html which covers online cybercrime in the second half of the opening post. I'm not sure whether it makes clear my opinion that nothing put onto a computer is ever safe from being seen by a determined and sufficiently knowledgeable intruder but it was meant to be implied at least, I'm sure it's true.

KarmaDoodle · Post by **KarmaDoodle** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:40 am

Thanks for sharing this thread! You have a lot of interesting info posted there and it's a great educational tool for people to see the different ways they can be scammed. Did you get a chance to watch any of the videos from Stop H*Commerce? They also go into detail on how cybercrimes are executed - it's pretty powerful!