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Critical Data: Mob Snapshot

Shadowcrew Base Case Web Address: www.shadowcrew.com (Web site taken down by U.S. Secret Service in October 2004) Business: Trafficking in stolen and counterfeit credit, debit and identification cards* Administrators: Andrew

Geekfathers: CyberCrime Mobs Revealed

Crime is now organized on the Internet. Operating in the anonymity of cyberspace, Web mobs with names like Shadowcrew and stealthdivision are building networks that help crackers and phishers, money

Ears To The Ground

Tony Scott has traded in his wheels for mouse ears. With no fireworks, the former chief technology officer at General Motors became chief information officer at The Walt Disney Co.

Public Disservice

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has people problems. It can’t find or retain the project managers and executives needed to implement one of its most important technology projects since Sept.

Back On Track

Tracy Bowdwin, nighttime assistant chief signals officer for New York City Transit, spent Sunday, Jan. 23, making sure snow hadn’t piled up on the rails and switches were working properly

Fighting the Pox on Your Inbox

No mere nuisance, spam is engulfing corporate e-mail systems like a greedy swarm of locusts and blotting out legitimate business communications. Here’s how to ward off the plague. Lots of

Symantec Buys Spam Killer, Gets Street Cred

A year ago, Symantec was in the bush leagues of antispam vendors. The company, as part of its mail security software package, offered only a basic spam-blocking feature that guessed

An Extra Measure of Security

M. Angela Sasse, a professor at University College London who specializes in security, recommends top-to-bottom training in an information-technology department—and higher in the organization. “There has been a tendency to

Users Gush over MailFrontier’s Anti-Spam

Here’s a measure of how much people like MailFrontier’s antispam software: Even a customer who says the company misrepresented the terms of its deal with him raves about its product.

Cloudmark: Vapor Customers

Cloudmark claims its software is used at more than 2,000 companies. But the startup may be embroidering the truth: Several of the “corporate customers” touted by Cloudmark do not have

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