Comments on: Undermining The Underground http://www.tonybradley.com/2007/10/undermining-the-underground/ Computer Security In Plain English For Normal People Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:29:50 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: SECURASYS http://www.tonybradley.com/2007/10/undermining-the-underground/comment-page-1/#comment-28 SECURASYS Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:22:20 +0000 http://tonybradley.com/?p=28#comment-28 Tony - I totally agree with you here. I also read these articles talking about Social Engineering and attempts to disrupt the "credibility system" among criminals and dont feel its the right approach. This will definitely not stop the problem , the issue of credit card theft and selling of this property will still continue. I think "cyber law enforcement" needs to consider a more direct and effective approach. To that end there are companies that are offering "Kill services" to known phishing sites. These firms establish relationships with ISP's and when a suspect site is located - they work with these organizations in taking them "off the air". One such firm is Internet Identity which apparently works in conjunction with Microsoft and when a bad site is located, they add this to the phishing filter being used with IE v7x. Aside from this they contact pertinent ISP's to "down" this site. I think this type of solution will be more effective in helping to stem the tide credit card fraud and subsequent criminal sales online. JV www.securasys.net Tony – I totally agree with you here. I also read these articles talking about Social Engineering and attempts to disrupt the “credibility system” among criminals and dont feel its the right approach.

This will definitely not stop the problem , the issue of credit card theft and selling of this property will still continue. I think “cyber law enforcement” needs to consider a more direct and effective approach.

To that end there are companies that are offering “Kill services” to known phishing sites. These firms establish relationships with ISP’s and when a suspect site is located – they work with these organizations in taking them “off the air”.

One such firm is Internet Identity which apparently works in conjunction with Microsoft and when a bad site is located, they add this to the phishing filter being used with IE v7x. Aside from this they contact pertinent ISP’s to “down” this site.

I think this type of solution will be more effective in helping to stem the tide credit card fraud and subsequent criminal sales online.

JV
http://www.securasys.net

]]> By: AUDREY http://www.tonybradley.com/2007/10/undermining-the-underground/comment-page-1/#comment-26 AUDREY Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:07:44 +0000 http://tonybradley.com/?p=28#comment-26 IF THERE WERE A BLOG SITE THAT POSTS ALL OF THE HIDDEN VIRUSES THAT HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED AND THIS IS POSTED FOR OTHERS SO THEY COULD KEEP UP TO DATE AND PROTECT THEMSELVES THEN EVERYONE WOULD BE A LOT BETTER OFF. THERE IS NO HIDDEN AGENDA JUST WEEL KEOT SECRETS THAT CAN BE DISCOVERED. SOME HACKERS HAVE HELPED WITH SECURITY SINCE THE 9/11 ATTACK. WE COULD USE THESE SOURCESW AND FIND OUT MORE. IF THERE WERE A BLOG SITE THAT POSTS ALL OF THE HIDDEN VIRUSES THAT HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED AND THIS IS POSTED FOR OTHERS SO THEY COULD KEEP UP TO DATE AND PROTECT THEMSELVES THEN EVERYONE WOULD BE A LOT BETTER OFF. THERE IS NO HIDDEN AGENDA JUST WEEL KEOT SECRETS THAT CAN BE DISCOVERED. SOME HACKERS HAVE HELPED WITH SECURITY SINCE THE 9/11 ATTACK. WE COULD USE THESE SOURCESW AND FIND OUT MORE.

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