Friday, October 22, 2004

Crooks slither into Net's shady nooks and crannies / USATODAY.com, 21 Oct 2004

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-10-20-cyber-crime_x.htm
Jon Swartz
"Organized crime rings and petty thieves are flocking to the Internet like start-ups in the go-go '90s, federal authorities say establishing a multibillion-dollar underground economy in just a few years.
'Willie Sutton used to say he robbed banks because that's where the money is,' says FBI Agent Keith Lourdeau, an expert on cybercrime. 'The same applies today to crooks and the Internet.'
The Internet's growth as an economic engine, particularly for financial transactions, is feeding the felonious frenzy"