Here we see a video hosted on youtube showing the views of Tech consultant, Jessie Hirsh on the new dimension of Cyber Crime - Cyber Crime Toolkits!

Cyber criminals are more sophisticated these days. Security expert say that there is something else to worry about.. Some malicious hackers have started selling their expertise online.
Want a virus you can get it on your very own cyber crime tool kit!
Budding thieves can even buy 12 months of tech support with their illegal kit! Sounds Crazy!  Isn’t it?
To explain this insanity and how we can protect ourselves lets hear what our expert Jessie Hirsh has to say on it!
So what's involved in a cyber crime Toolkit?
Wells, it’s literally everything you would need to break in a computer!! Send out viruses on your name and basically be an internet terrorist!
Is it like a Hackers Manual?
It’s more than a manual! You don’t have to know what you are doing.
You don’t need to understand anything, it’s more like a big red button that you are able to aim, target and press. So you don’t have to understand why it’s successful? And just literally gives you the armament so that you can just go and cause havoc!
So, Providing tools to create havoc! Is it essentially Hacker's guide so you can get into any system and make a mess of it? Is that the whole Idea?
Well more explicitly -It looks at the Industry of identity theft and emerging industry of online extortion by hijacking someone's computer and basically asking for ransom in order to get people to get access to their files!
It is because of this profitable industry - online industry of crime that there is so much attention that people are ready to pay 500 - 1000$ for access to this kit!
This is emerging dimension of cyber terrorism! But the idea of offer tech support for a period of time is getting so brazen that it’s unbelievable?

It’s a franchise. They are creating cells where more n more people can benefit from their tech knowledge. notion of 12 months of support speaks to cat and mouse game where Security companies are trying to figure out how they are breaking into systems , how are exploring vulnerabilities and as criminals find new holes they deliver these vulnerabilities to you ,their subscriber because you have opened franchise in your little part of the world!
Kind of damage that can be done if you activate this kind of cyber crime toolkit!
1. People use this kit for hijacking computers
2. Creating armies of zombie computers: Computer researchers found out that computer zombies army out there is greater than any super computer owned by any government or any university. this is incredible amount of competition of resources that anyone who buys this kit get access to n contributes feeding to so number of the army gets growing n growing
As this is cat and mouse game and as law enforcement authorities of the world know this is happening - are they recruiting special task forces going out there finding the hackers, recruiting them to try and to stay ahead of the game?
Well, they are but the problem unfortunately is money that there is so much money in cyber crime that really the best and brightest are unfortunately are recruited to the dark side because of the potential of profit. And i think in terms of on what the consumers can do one hand we shouldn’t be afraid but really the onus is on us to continue running secure computers and using secure softwares that hopefully provides level of defense against this type of phenomenon.
Sp every individual must be reminded that yes your world is vulnerable but exercise personal due diligence with your own computers.
Beyond that is it safe to assume that those bad guys out there - it’s impossible to find them and nab them?
Well it’s because of reasons of jurisdiction and also for reasons of technology that they are able to use this technology to hide which is why suspect move away from personal computers and more towards network computers because that the only way to defend to have a common front rather than have billions n billions of individual PCs that can be infected.
What will that mean for individuals? If you are reliant on network of computers that are supposed to be individuals-Does it enhance your capacity? Does it limit your capacity? Or other concerns if you become dependent on networks?
You lose freedom. You lose the ability to do things that way you wanted to do in exchange for security in exchange for being safe.

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Last update : 18-05-2008 04:44