Internet Thieves Kick Efforts Into High Gear
Friday, January 30. 2009
Efforts to steal personal data and remove money from pockets of innocent people via computer scams is on the rise.
"USA Today" reports a huge assortment of schemes, many involving online promotions that promise easy riches, were already on the increase last year when financial markets nosedived.
Now those efforts have soared.
Panda Security, an Internet security company says the number of malicious programs circulating on the Internet tripled to more than 31-thousand a day in mid-September.
Roger Thornton, chief technology officer at Fortify Software says cybercrime groups "are breaching the highest levels of the global finance infrastructure and a majority of our home computers." Lately those groups have moved to targeting data storehouses.
Heartland Payment Systems announced last week that a system it uses to process millions of payment card transactions each month had been broken into.
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