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Once we used to keep records on criminals, now they keep records on us, by stealing ours, Peter Warren, chairman, Cyber Security Research Institute . The Criminals are keeping tabs on us. About the author.
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Once we used to keep records on criminals, now they keep records on us, by stealing ours, Peter Warren, chairman, Cyber Security Research Institute . The Criminals are keeping tabs on us
About the author • Peter Warren, is the chairman of the Cyber Security Research Institute, a not-for-profit organisation committed to producing accurate information about trends in technology crime and what to do about them. • He is a well known investigative journalist with a specialism in technology • Peter has worked frequently with the Sunday Times Insight team, the Sunday Times and the Guardian and most national newspaper. • A former associate producer for BBC 2 news and current affairs and the investigations editor for BBC2’s ‘The Net’ • He is also the co=author of the critically acclaimed ‘Cyber Alert’ published in 2005, which accurately warned of the emergence of organised computer crime gangs
The High-tech crimewave • It is not new - criminals have always been fascinated by technology. • Crime is part of the human condition and technology crime is simply using technology to do things the state has legislated against. • What is new are the numbers. The internet and computer technology amplifies everything. Pre-internet what was once a wave is now a tidal wave
So what is happening? • Criminals have focussed on technology for the easy money. • To support this a criminal economy has developed • While the fertile uplands of Silicon Valley developed technology Silicon Hell was spawning crime gangs coming up with ways to subvert it.
Creative and innovative • Criminals are early adopters of technology • Criminals see the potential to make money by subverting technology very quickly • They see need and work quickly to cater to it • They are great technological innovators
How is it done? • The dark side of the internet has built a mirror of the light side that uses the same methods • Silicon Hell is highly specialised • It uses some of the top people. • People work for it without being aware
Where is Silicon Hell • Silicon Hell is now spread all around the world from Russia to Brazil from China to West Africa. • Criminal activities exist in every country in the world – the UK is no exception • Computer criminals have their own cloud.
The internet the new university of crime • Guides exist to teach you to become a hacker • Videos showing you what to do are on Youtube • A lucrative criminal sideline beckons.
The crime emporium • The value is in the data – we are in the information age • The theft of data is at the heart of computer crime • All data has a price