March 21st, 2011 by lhaas                              

Cybercop Fights Organized Internet Crime | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. Miller-McCune.

A day in the life of a cybercrime investigator:

It was August 2005, and Steve Santorelli had recently left Scotland Yard to join Microsoft’s Internet Crimes Investigation Team. He was camping in the forest near Redmond, Wash., with some of his team members, trying to escape their technology-dominated existence, when a call came [...]

March 18th, 2010 by lhaas                              

Smartphone Weather App Builds A Mobile Botnet - DarkReading

Is your mobile phone spying on you? Are your employees’ phones? Companies can spend millions of dollars in protection only to have an employee walk in with a jailbroken phone infected with a botnet capable of actively recording everything that employee is doing. And because it’s working over the mobile network, all of [...]