More and more people are getting online and more of them are on broadband. Not big news, eh. But where people go, there goes people trying to rip off those people. Not news, OK. But according to a report by McAffee (they’re one of the big cyber security companies that sells virus protection software so maybe they have a vested interest in scaring you), cybercrime continues to get more sophisticated, using mind games, recruiting young hackers, employing KGB style tacticts. In spite of its source, the article is worth reading as it provides a nice summary of the dark side that is made possible by the open network.
