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FBI: Cyber-Crime Outlook is ‘Bleak’
By admin | September 30, 2007
FBI: Cyber-Crime Outlook is ‘Bleak’
The criminals are winning the war on cyber-crime. And it may be years before businesses, security companies and law enforcement catch up.
In the meantime, companies should probably prepare to get hacked, Scott O’Neal, chief of the FBI’s computer intrusion section, tells the Business Technology Blog. “The problem is so vast and so systemic that people need to be prepared for the worst,” he tells us. “Companies need to assume that they’ll be a victim.”
That’s largely because companies are up against an opponent they haven’t dealt with in the past. Until recently, the people who broke into corporate systems or wrote computer viruses were techies seeking notoriety. Accordingly, they would target their attacks as broadly as possible and their aim was to do damage.
The Wall Street Journal, October 01, 2007 04:15 GMT+01
Topics: Software |