Four cuffed over webcam Trojan scam
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| Two 17-year-olds were arrested in Alicante on Wednesday and charged
| with writing a Trojan horse that allowed them to control the
| webcams of compromised machines at a local college.
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| Investigators reckon these unnamed suspects used the same strain of
| malware to pinch sensitive data from compromised machines for the
| purposes of ID theft. The pair allegedly ran up to e60,000 in
| fraudulent credit card bills before they were busted.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/16/webcam_trojan_scam/
Related:
US lost $8 billion to computer crime
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| Consumer reports' latest "State of the Net" survey has revealed that
| US punters lost more than $8 billion over the last two years to
| viruses, spyware and con tricks.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33554
Study: Billions of dollars spent on security
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| Large U.S. businesses will spend $61 billion on security by the end
| of this year, representing 7.3 percent of total IT budgets in the
| country, according to a new report from Info-Tech Research Group.
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http://news.com.com/2110-7350_3-6135989.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
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