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Written by Peter Warren
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Published by The Register, Commissioned by the Daily Mirror
Three members of a drug dealing ring who used the internet to sell
cannabis to addresses across the UK were sent to prison last week.
The hi-tech dealers plied their illicit trade from a website known as
budmonkey that was set up by Sean Jackson, a former heroin addict.
Regular customers used the site to order their drugs online. The
dealers - the UK's first online drug ring - then shipped the cannabis
to their clients using hermetically-sealed bags to hide the smell of
the drugs.
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Written by Peter Warren
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The infamous Nigerian fraud gang 419 has discovered Skype, the internet
telephony service that allows computer users to talk to each other
across the internet for free.
Notorious for it’s development of the ‘advance fee fraud’, 419 have
noted the increase in use of systems like Skype by small businesses
keen to use the service to reduce their phone costs.
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Written by Peter Warren
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The Nigerian 419 gang are a celebration of technological style over
substance. Masters at the adoption of new technology, 419 once held up
a telecommunication node belonging to a UK telecoms company for three
days during the 1990s, while they poured messages through it.
One of the first organised crime gangs to take on email, 419 have shown
time and again an ability to stay right on the edge of new technology,
perhaps in part on it's insistence that every seven man cell is led by
a qualified science graduate.
The gang's adoption of Skype is only the latest example of the gang's familiarity with modern communications technology.
During the past five years 419 has shown a frightening ability to
respond to global disasters, notable recent examples being the
terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre, the US war with Afghanistan
and the UK - US invasion of Iraq in all of which 419 developed
scenarios of funds going missing that could be spirited into your bank
account.
The following is a transcript of a Skype conversation six months ago between a 419 'employee' and a US citizen.
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Written by Peter Warren
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High tech thieves are using the latest in memory stick technology to
literally suck the brains and commercial secrets out of companies,
Peter Warren reports.
Computer security experts are warning about the dangers of a tiny James
Bond style spying device used by high-tech thieves that can steal a
company’s secrets in the blink of an eye.
Available from the internet for only £10, the devices, called ‘asset
strippers’ in the computer security industry, are specially modified
USB memory drives capable of holding enormous amounts of data and are
already being used by crime gangs and individuals in the City of
London
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Crime
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Written by Peter Warren
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The Guardian (appeared under headline 'School for Scoundrels')
The dark underbelly of cyberspace is rarely exposed - but experts at
one elite school teach Peter Warren how to get inside the mind of a
computer hacker .
To the untrained eye it looked just like any computer screen. There
were programs, files and the accumulated digital junk that sits on most
people's desktops. But as I looked closely, I could begin to see
everything that was happening: every document opened, every password
entered, every program activated. It was as if I were looking at my own
computer - except I wasn't. What I was secretly observing was someone
else's screen: after just three days of training, I had become a fully
fledged hacker.
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Written by Peter Warren
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Published in The Register
One of the UK’s most secretive security organisations is hunting down a
gang of high tech criminals in the Far East that has been attacking the
computer systems of Government departments and multi-national companies
to steal secrets.
The gang, which many experts say is either being headed up by a
computer master criminal or a spy chief, has been responsible for well
over a 1,000 computer break-in attempts over the last few months and
has so far attacked 50 countries across the globe.
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Written by Peter Warren
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Published on The Register
Gary McKinnon, the British hacker facing extradition to the US in nine
days time has warned other hacking wannabees not to follow his example.
McKinnon, who faces a possible 72 years in a US prison if he is forced
to stand trial in America for entering over 53 US military computer
systems, is terrified by the prospect.
“I was not doing anything – I wasn’t damaging anything, I was just
looking. I did not think about the legal side of things and now I am
facing the prospect of extreme violence in some US jail.”
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Written by Peter Warren
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It might sound glamorous and hi-tech, but most cybercrime draws on
age-old methods of entrapment. Peter Warren and Bobbie Johnson
investigate
Thursday May 12, 2005
The Guardian
Technology hit the headlines for the wrong reasons again last week, as
a gang of British software pirates who characterised themselves as
latter-day Robin Hoods found themselves in jail. The convictions
underlined the perception that cybercrime is on the up, a feeling
exacerbated by a recent attempted £220m hacking raid on the Sumitomo
Mitsui bank in London, which garnered Mission Impossible headlines. But
despite the Hollywood-style imagery generated by such crimes, and the
fact that these offences are on the increase, not all of it is as
hi-tech as it might appear.
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