International crime rings, not hackers, true Internet villains

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International crime rings, not hackers, true Internet villains - Yahoo! News:

LAS VEGAS (AFP) - Organized crime is winning the Internet security war, specialists warned at the world's foremost gathering of computer hackers in Las Vegas.

The online peril is no longer brilliant young social outcasts penetrating networks for notoriety; it is international crime rings swiping billions of dollars with keystrokes and malicious computer codes, cyber cops agreed.

Ironically, potential champions in the battle for Internet privacy were sought among the thousands of hackers that made pilgrimages to the US gambling center nicknamed 'Sin City' for the three-day DefCon 14 conference.

Online evil doers were crime rings working out of countries such as Russia, Romania and Brazil, and their nefarious technical skills were keeping ahead of computer security experts, veterans of the cyber-crime battle said.
'We are getting our butts kicked, there is no doubt about it,' said Dan Hubbard, vice president of security research at Websense. 'There is a lot more of a bond and a sharing of tools in their society than in ours.'