Politics and cybercrime
Date: October 12, 2007Source: infoworld.com
Beyond the fact that President George W. Bush's tumultuous tenure in the Oval Office will come to a close -- and that e-voting technologies will likely come under a new wave of fire from security researchers -- one other concrete detail appears to be that malware authors, phishers and other assorted cyber-scum will attempt to take advantage of interest in the election to deliver a new wave of attacks.
Last week, Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab project hosted the Anti-Phishing Working Group's eCrime Researchers Summit. As part of the event, a panel of experts including Symantec researcher Oliver Friedrichs debated the various methods that online assailants will employ to aim their wares at unsuspecting voters.
In a blog post on the company's Web site, Friedrichs outlined some of the conclusions that he and the other experts arrived at regarding the upcoming political-security firestorm. The other panelists were Rachna Dhamija from Harvard University, Chris Soghoian from Indiana University, and Pat Clarke of Jackson/Clark Partners.
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