The World’s Top 5 Cybercrime Hotspots

[trumad]

Good video on this at link.

Russia
China
Brazil
Nigeria
Viet Nam

http://time.com/3087768/the-worlds-5-cybercrime-hotspots/

[JackRiddler]

1. Is this a joke? "World's Top 5 Cybercrime Hotspots"?

It's a big subject but let's settle for the Top 5 within the United States:

Silicon Valley
Fort Meade, Maryland
Some computer covering x-hundred acres in Utah
Wall Street
The servers of the credit-rating agencies

Hollywood and the RIAA would be the runners-up.

Here's a minor but particularly virulent spot:

The servers of Henry Luce Memorial "TIME" magazine, continuing to do service as America's weekly revision of its Soviet-style pocket encyclopedia for the Lowbrow.

[trumad]

2. Sorry---

But you're wrong.

Norton
Symantec
Check Point etc...

Daily analysis reports show these countries are head of the list for cyber crime hot spots.

One of my Cyber Security vending partners has a state of the art Security NOC with 100 inch high definition monitors. Color coded with real time attack locations. It's a site to behold.

Yeah I know--- folks want to throw the good old USA in there... sorry, we're the least of the problem.

[JackRiddler]

3. The trick is to define "cybercrime"

so that it's only covering retail and not wholesale. Kind of like the "war on drugs." Make sure the big, organized crime at the top is "legal" and obscured by scare stories about the individual stuff from the bottom.

[trumad]

4. malware...Bots....Phishing attacks..

Etc. Hideous shit. ....

This latest hit from Russia was a botnet attack.

Again....This is where we are seeing the attacks coming from.

[JackRiddler]

5. Total surveillance state...

wide-net data gathering and selling... ranking the life-worthiness of all humans by their credit rating... money laundering, plundering the wealth of the world... pursuing a crusade against Downloading Grandmas and driving Aaron Swartz to suicide based on bogus intellectual property claims... entrapment... these are also cybercrimes.

"Etc. hideous shit..."

[JackRiddler]

16. You: "This is where we are seeing the attacks coming from."

And by the way, if that is where "we" see the attacks coming from, where do "they" see the attacks coming from?

Stuxnet on the loose?
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/stuxnet-americas-nuclear-plant-attacking-virus-has-infected-the-international-space-station

"When the United States mounted its cyberattacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities early in President Obama’s first term, Mr. Obama expressed concern to aides that China and other states might use the American operations to justify their own intrusions."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/world/asia/us-accuses-chinas-military-in-cyberattacks.html?pagewanted=all

NSA breaches into Huawei servers, installs backdoors
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/world/asia/nsa-breached-chinese-servers-seen-as-spy-peril.html

Huawei is a totally evil company barred from the U.S. because it might install backdoors into its software, and that's only good if it's Microsoft or Apple doing it for the NSA.

Solution: indict Chinese military unit for trying the same thing, howl about it like it's an unprecedented breach of all law.

I don't see "our" criminals or "their" criminals. I see criminals regardless of nation. The people are everywhere are contending with degrees of authoritarian rule, some deadlier, some less so and therefore held up as the "good guys."

[MohRokTah]

8. Threadjack!

Dude, there are plenty of threads for you to complain about those issues. This thread is about cybercrime which has nothing to do with anything you mentioned.

[trumad]

9. Well I am trying to be nice in explaining that to him.

But Anarchy runs amok sometimes.

[JackRiddler]

10. Then don't call it crime.

There's a real enough problem with retail malware but what is it compared to things like industrial installation of hidden spy apps on everyone's shit? (Oh, but it's legal! It's only violating the constitution, after all.)

"Cybercrime" is an ideological trope that pretends that some forms of crime conducted online are very, very bad, especially if they're done by FURRNERS! This is in part a marketing scheme for companies like those trumad names. Focusing on only one kind of "cybercrime" and not the other distracts from the industrial forms of crime conducted online.

You want to talk about crime, then crime should be discussed. You want to talk about relatively petty crime, then identify it as such.

You want to link to TIME magazine as though it's anything other than the weekly sheet of reactionary panics, expect a reply on that as well.

This is what TIME magazine is about:

[MohRokTah]

15. .

[LanternWaste]

17. You will of course, allow us the Total, Unambiguous and Final Definition of the word Cyber-Crime

You will of course, allow us the Total, Unambiguous and Final Definition of the word Cyber-Crime without any post-hoc qualifiers as you seem to be annoyed with the definition relevant to the OP, yes?

And maybe source the legal citing for us-- so we may all rest assured you're not simply guessing or making up a definition to suit your own perceptions? As you said, identify it as such.

Else, you may simply be given all the credibility you so far in fact, warrant...

[JackRiddler]

18. I'll go with the dictionary

crime |krīm|
noun
an action or omission that constitutes an offense that may be prosecuted by the state and is punishable by law: shoplifting was a serious crime.
• illegal activities: the victims of crime.
• an action or activity that, although not illegal, is considered to be evil, shameful, or wrong: they condemned apartheid as a crime against humanity | it's a crime to keep a creature like Willy in a tank.
ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘wickedness, sin’): via Old French from Latin crimen ‘judgment, offense,’ based on cernere ‘to judge.'

On this thread, apparently, shoplifting is a serious crime, but money laundering isn't.

[NightWatcher]

6. that's why that Nigerian Prince is trying to get his millions out of the country

[lpbk2713]

7. Verizon, AT&T, ComCast etc

ad nauseum

[JackRiddler]

12. Shhh!

Viet Nam, I tell you! Nigeria! RUSSIA!!!

[trumad]

14. Oh for christ sakes..

Give it a fucking rest.

I explained clearly what this type of cyber crime is and you continue to rant about the good old USofA.

[LanternWaste]

19. Take them to court if what they are doing is illegal...?

Take them to court if what they are doing is illegal...?

(I do realize it's much more convenient though, to simply point fingers-- nothing at all to risk, and we still maintain the pretense of our convictions and consider ourselves martyrs and heroes-- to ourselves if not to others)

[PoliticAverse]

13. #1, The Internet. n/t

[LanternWaste]

20. IT department at my office (all one of him) changed the passwords by one character company wide...

IT department at my office (all one of him) changed the passwords by one character company wide earlier this week after the breaches had been made public. I felt bad for the guy-- not for the additional work of changing each station's login info, but because he had to explain what a password, a login, and a character is to half the company.

[JackRiddler]

21. Comey was pushing the panic propaganda on 60 Minutes

And I thought of this ridiculous thread.

He talked about how wonderful all the measures taken since 9/11 were and in particular pumped up "cybercrime" into the new, greatest, most deadly horrible threat ever, with the Chinese as the big enemy. Spend money on his bureau! He had the nerve to talk about the PLA indictments, without mentioning the NSA's break-in to the Huawei servers, or Stuxnet, or the general unconstitutionality of pretty much the entire total surveillance state in which the NSA and FBI are the key partners.