KingofGnG writes "It's a picture full of shadows and few lights the one outlined in the quarterly security report by F-Secure, a well-known Finnish company that produces antivirus software and integrated protection solutions. By analyzing the striking cyber-crime cases reported during the third quarter of 2008, the wrap-up highlights the difficulty to effectively fight an international phenomenon with the only aid from the local laws and the current cooperation treaties between the police authorities.
By exploiting the Internet pervasiveness and the easiness with which it's possible to deceive unskilled computer users, cybercrime has no borders and often not even well-known executors. The efforts of the local police authorities are noteworthy, but rarely they succeed in dealing with the on-line frauds and the obsessive spam forwarding through botnets with hundreds of thousands of zombie-PC. To avoid the further degeneration of the situation, the F-Secure Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen calls upon the creation of a supranational force, with the full powers to investigate and hit malware writers and botnet masters in any corner of the world they are located. Story here." Link to Original Source
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