The Life of a Cybercrime Investigator

An anonymous reader writes "Steve Santorelli gets computing experts and law enforcers to cooperate in a global fight against organized Internet crime. This article talks about the role of law enforcement in identifying and battling online threats as they change and evolve. Quoting: 'The common wisdom about hacking and cybercrime is, in Santorelli's view, severely out of date. He says cybercriminals aren’t lone wolves; they are financed and directed by international criminal syndicates. ... Organized crime also has vast resources derived from its traditional operations to finance the hiring of quality hackers around the world. There is even evidence that some syndicates are investing in research and development, looking to create proprietary, next-generation hacking tools, Santorelli says.'"

Problem is people

[Anonymous Coward]

This is why the problem isn't Windows. These people will do whatever is necessary to make profit. Linux would be just as well targeted if it had the same market share and amount of stupid people. Windows as an OS is secure, especially Windows 7, but there's nothing you can do about user stupidity unless you close down the whole OS. And is that something we really want to happen, locked "consoles" for everyone?

Re:It's coming

[Billy the Boy]

It's already happening too. All those jailbreaks are really remote exploits. That's right, just by going to a website your OS gets rooted. Great.

Re:It's coming

[Billy the Boy]

If Linux was mainstream OS, that wouldn't work. People need the ability to install freeware, shareware, commercial, their friends apps or their own apps and so on.

Look, the cause is stupid people. But you cannot fix stupid people. So what to do?