Friday, April 23, 2010

Analysis of 43 Online Bank Thefts Illustrates Diversity of Victims

Brian Krebs reports on an analysis of 43 on-line bank thefts showing that the preponderance of reported thefts is from the East Coast and Midwest. As these 43 online bank thefts represent a small fraction of  the total, it's impossible to make any generalizations from the data. Nevertheless, the data does show how varied the victims are. The only two things that victims have in common may be (1) that they were vulnerable and (2) they got caught up in the 'net' of some cybercriminal, no different from a tuna getting caught up in the net of a tuna boat.


Read the story at KrebsOnSecurity.com ...