Re: Police Face Uphill Battle Against Cyber Crime

[InfoSec News <isn () C4I ORG>]

Forwarded by: Russell Coker <russell () coker com au>

On Monday 15 January 2001 18:05, you wrote:
> http://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com/content.cfm?articleid=564&PID=1726127
>
> REPRINTED FROM: Korea Times
> JAN 12, 2001    ARTICLE ID: 564
>
> Law enforcement authorities are playing a cat-and-mouse game with
> computer hackers and those committing crimes in cyber space.
>
> In order to avoid police, criminals usually conduct their
> activities late at night or early in the morning.

Are they at all serious?

Are they saying that police are unable to catch criminals based on
evidence unless they catch them in the act?  If that was true then
most criminals would escape!

> In particular, criminals log on to some sites designed for the
> sharing of programs used for cyber crimes such as hacking
> programs, from 4 a.m. to 6:00 a.m., making use of the police's
> insufficient manpower.

Another issue is that a very large proportion of crime on the net will
be international in nature so therefore the criminals are likely to be
in a different time zone to the victims.

> Taking advantage of the authorities' helplessness, dealers of
> obscene CD's take orders from customers at PC rooms and provide
> door-to-door delivery service, after opening bank accounts with
> stolen identification cards.

Of course they could always sell their CDs from countries that are not
police states.  For example much material is legal in the Netherlands
which is illegal in most countries.  Why would someone bother setting
up a bank account with fake details when they can legally run such a
business in Amsterdam?

> Although police can successfully locate a PC room through its
> information provider (IP) address, criminals never come back to
> the same place to avoid possible arrest.

"Information Provider" address?  I won't even bother responding to the
rest of the article.


Russell Coker

ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com
---
To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of
"SIGNOFF ISN".