The BBC reported that at the World Economic Forum in Davos, several computer security experts have met to discuss the extent of crime and measures should be adopted to enrailler it. Several experts are there to Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation, Dave Dewalt, CEO of McAfee, Jonathan Zittrain, a law professor at Harvard and an expert on the Internet or even Andre Kudelski as head of the eponymous firm specializing in digital security.
Each year, it is estimated that the cost of fraud on the Internet amount to one trillion dollars and according to one expert, in the year 2008, we have seen more vulnerabilities, over fraud the net and more malware than usual. In all, the threats of last year were more numerous than those from 2002 to 2007 combined.
In contrast to what has been observed in the past, these frauds are not the result of a single genius but rather made by real gangs. Moreover, in recognizing the new face of cybercrime and its economic potential, a lawyer would have formed a team of 300 people (experts, lawyers, hackers ...) to sponsor several operations. One of these virtual groups would have diverted 25 million financial transactions directly in Ukraine.
Perhaps even more impressive, one expert says that the year 2008 was truly the beginning of the cyber-war, especially when tensions between Russia and Estonia, which saw its saturated networks denial of service and electrical infrastructure outage. "2008 was the year of cyber-war and showed that it is possible to make a country vulnerable in a few minutes [...] it's like a virtual revolution, Russia had embarked on this path and Other hackers have followed suit, "says one.
The issue of control of the Internet was raised several times in many countries, not only to obstruct the illegal downloads, but also to provide certainty for the user. Today, experts are questioning the regulation of the Internet and in particular on the degree of authority by a police excercise possible. Some analysts also deployed of a civic and fraternal similar to open source.
02-02-2009
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