Stealing money has never been easier thanks to the Internet, researchers believe a university laboratory in the U.S. state of Florida, dedicated to designing programs to curb cyber crimes and make safer the Net
Launched three years ago, the Research Laboratory of Electronic Crimes of the Florida State University, aims to create technology to combat crimes such as theft of personal data, which lead to theft of money from credit cards and bank accounts.
According to the researchers, these crimes continue to grow by giving internet facilities to act at a distance and without a trace.
"With an internet connection anyone can operate from anywhere on the planet, without using his own name, no address, no nothing," said Sudhir Aggarwal, director of the center, known as 'E-Crime Lab'. "Against the electronic crimes are no rules, Internet is the Wild West ... We try to develop software tools that could help security agencies to investigate, "he said.
The laboratory has developed two different software systems to identify criminals who act hidden behind the screen of the global network, and tries to develop a mechanism far more effective than spam filters to protect against these crimes internet.
"These are not the crimes of the future are the crimes of this, unfortunately," said the expert. "I think the electronic crimes continue to grow until we find at least one way to mitigate Internet and a system that can stop them," said Aggarwal.
One program that the university laboratory called 'Without Mask' (Unmask), identifying the premises from where it left an e-mail for illegal deceptive (phishing email).
A test for PhD students, working with that project, allowing to trace an email for purposes of deception and find its origins in Guatemala City, said Aggarwal.
Other software created is a bankruptcy-passwords ( 'Password Breaker') would allow, in an investigation, police and security agencies, and in some cases, corporations have access to protected information.
The system functions as a kind of guessed passwords and has a high degree of effectiveness "because people do not really create good passwords, especially because he can not remember," Aggarwal told.
The 'E-Crime Lab', which began work in January 2007 and is on average seven students per year concentrated on development projects, receives research funding from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and collaborates with the Department of Justice of Florida and the U.S. Center White Collar Crimes (NWCCC).
The computer security company Sophos said this week in the last year there was an increase "alarming" theft of personal information through social networks like Twitter or Facebook. "Users spend more time on social networks to share valuable and important information, and hackers smell where they will make money," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos.
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Learn the ten most vulnerable in Internet passwords
A study involving the analysis of 32 million passwords on the internet, which recently had been exposed to the site after the cyber Rockyou.com identified ten electronic keys used by users more vulnerable to hacking.
The data security company Imperva analyzed the security of passwords or passwords used by users.
The aim was to identify the most common personal passwords used by consumers and administrators of internet pages, so that to avoid when using social networks or e-commerce sites.
The most common password is: 123456, but there is a list of the most vulnerable.
Among the findings of the study found that while shorter and simpler passwords or passwords are chosen by the users, they are more susceptible to basic forms of cyber attacks.
About 50% of users used names, slang, dictionary words, or trivial passwords (such as consecutive digits, adjacent keys on the keyboard of the computer, etc.).
Passwords most vulnerable
- 123456
- 12345
- 123456789
- Password
- Iloveyou
- Princess
- Rockyou
- 1234567
- 12345678
- Abc123
Hazards
Imperva's technical director, Amichai Shulman, said: "We all need to understand what that involves the combination of weak passwords or passwords in today's world of cyber machines: with minimal effort, a hacker can access a new account every second or 1,000 accounts every 17 minutes. "
"The problem has changed little over the past 20 years," said Shulman. "It is time that we take seriously the security of our electronic passwords. It is a primary and important step in the field of data security and online information," he said.
Earlier, Carole Theriault of internet security firm Sophos told the reporter the area of Technology for the BBC, Jonathan Fildes, that "access to a password I could give someone access to many things."
People must change their passwords at different websites that use "he added.
A recent report by Sophos found that about 40% of people had the same password for all websites they visited.
"People need to differentiate between having a bank account online and make a reservation online for tickets to the cinema."
The data security company Imperva analyzed the security of passwords or passwords used by users.
The aim was to identify the most common personal passwords used by consumers and administrators of internet pages, so that to avoid when using social networks or e-commerce sites.
The most common password is: 123456, but there is a list of the most vulnerable.
Among the findings of the study found that while shorter and simpler passwords or passwords are chosen by the users, they are more susceptible to basic forms of cyber attacks.
About 50% of users used names, slang, dictionary words, or trivial passwords (such as consecutive digits, adjacent keys on the keyboard of the computer, etc.).
Passwords most vulnerable
- 123456
- 12345
- 123456789
- Password
- Iloveyou
- Princess
- Rockyou
- 1234567
- 12345678
- Abc123
Hazards
Imperva's technical director, Amichai Shulman, said: "We all need to understand what that involves the combination of weak passwords or passwords in today's world of cyber machines: with minimal effort, a hacker can access a new account every second or 1,000 accounts every 17 minutes. "
"The problem has changed little over the past 20 years," said Shulman. "It is time that we take seriously the security of our electronic passwords. It is a primary and important step in the field of data security and online information," he said.
Earlier, Carole Theriault of internet security firm Sophos told the reporter the area of Technology for the BBC, Jonathan Fildes, that "access to a password I could give someone access to many things."
People must change their passwords at different websites that use "he added.
A recent report by Sophos found that about 40% of people had the same password for all websites they visited.
"People need to differentiate between having a bank account online and make a reservation online for tickets to the cinema."
U.S. says that the Internet is its weak spot in security
Barack Obama's administration wants to take clear and concise advice to the population on one of the biggest threats to national security in homes and offices of the United States: the computer.The government wants Americans to think about before you click the mouse and know who's on the other side of your instant messages, since what one does or says in cyberspace will remain there for many can see it, steal it or use it, whether against people or its government.
Internet today is the weakness of the U.S., said former National Intelligence Director Michael McConnell.
Speaking at a new exhibition on cybersecurity in the International Spy Museum in Washington, McConnell said the network "introduced a level of vulnerability that is unprecedented."
The Pentagon's computer systems are 360 million netizens by polling day and a major energy company has admitted that their networks are scanned up to 70,000 times daily, said cyber-security expert James Lewis.Mostly, these polls are benign infrastructure networks. Many are a nuisance but some are crimes, "said McConnell. The most dangerous are the surveys of espionage or sabotage of data.
The attackers might be terrorists who seek to attack the culture and the U.S. economy or foreign states that seek to insert malicious code into the grid to activate weeks or years later.
"We are the fat kid in the race," Lewis said. "We're the biggest target we have much to steal things and everyone wants to hurt us," he said.
The experts recommend steps to increase security at home include:
Use antivirus software, filter spam, adult material controls and firewalls.
Make frequent backups of important files on external drives.
Think twice before sending information over the Internet, especially when using wireless networks or public.
Women and elderly victims of thieves favorite network
The criminal gangs that try to deceive the Chinese to provide them with bank details and other personal information are having their biggest hit with the elderly and women, police said Monday
A raid on Internet crime brought to light bands operating in six counties of the mainland that divert money and electronic communications through Taiwan and Southeast Asian countries to avoid detection.
Most deceive their victims through text messages who claim to be a bank or the police and induce them to call fake numbers to give their bank details. In the West, such practices called "phishing" and are often carried out by junk email.
"The main characteristic of these people is that they are very clever talkers, and also use sophisticated technology," Huang said Zuyua, deputy director of criminal investigation unit of the Ministry of Public Security of China.
Other tricks are very used to using words that entice the victim to a conversation in which information stop uncovered, proposals too good to be true threats if not sent the money, and even false kidnappings, in which the victim who believes he hears his son is fighting or yelling, Huang said.
About 70 percent of the victims are elderly, and another 70 percent are women.
The scams, which initially went to the wealthy inhabitants of the coastal area of the country are moving to the center and inland China. In Beijing you can see many posters reminding people to beware of financial crimes on the Internet.
These gangs operate as businesses, departments in charge of technology and others who perform money transfers.
The lax banking procedures in the country, and the large number of internet services such as insurance, to help ease with which gangs operate, police said.
More than 1,400 people have been arrested for their alleged involvement in these crimes, said Huang
A raid on Internet crime brought to light bands operating in six counties of the mainland that divert money and electronic communications through Taiwan and Southeast Asian countries to avoid detection.
Most deceive their victims through text messages who claim to be a bank or the police and induce them to call fake numbers to give their bank details. In the West, such practices called "phishing" and are often carried out by junk email.
"The main characteristic of these people is that they are very clever talkers, and also use sophisticated technology," Huang said Zuyua, deputy director of criminal investigation unit of the Ministry of Public Security of China.
Other tricks are very used to using words that entice the victim to a conversation in which information stop uncovered, proposals too good to be true threats if not sent the money, and even false kidnappings, in which the victim who believes he hears his son is fighting or yelling, Huang said.
About 70 percent of the victims are elderly, and another 70 percent are women.
The scams, which initially went to the wealthy inhabitants of the coastal area of the country are moving to the center and inland China. In Beijing you can see many posters reminding people to beware of financial crimes on the Internet.
These gangs operate as businesses, departments in charge of technology and others who perform money transfers.
The lax banking procedures in the country, and the large number of internet services such as insurance, to help ease with which gangs operate, police said.
More than 1,400 people have been arrested for their alleged involvement in these crimes, said Huang
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