Tracking cyber crimes back to the source has long been the road block in the FBI Cyber Crime division's path, but new partnerships, tools and talent aim to overcome those issues.
When I was growing up in New Jersey, if someone hit you in the nose and took your lunch money, well, you didn’t eat lunch that day. In the cyber world the punches are bigger, the dollars are tremendous and you don’t eat lunch because once your intellectual and physical property is gone, so are the jobs and paychecks that IP created.
Cyber criminals are using a variety of methods to steal money from victims' bank accounts in illegal wire transfers, sometimes even raising the limit of a transfer to get more money.
The 71 million U.S.. cybercrime victims alone lost a collective $20.7 billion last year, but more than a third of respondents don't fret about typing sensitive information into unsecure sites.
Afghanistan, Syria, North Korea, Yemen, Somalia.
Remember that Barry McGuire 1965 song, “Eve of Destruction?” “The eastern world, it is exploding / Violence flarin', bullets loadin' / You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'?”