The FBI has said that it needs a “digital Enron” in order to force legislators to effectively battle cyber crime. Um, sure. The FBI is actually hoping for an early Christmas here more than anything. When investigating a cyber crime warrants are needed. This requires gather evidence to show that a warrant has merit. Well, the FBI is trying to pull an end run to get to the answer they want.
according to FBI special agent Shéna Boswell-Crowe.
“My theory is that computer crime is kind of like white collar crime before Enron,” Boswell-Crowe said during a presentation at the McAfee Avert Labs Day in Mountain View, California.
“White collar crime used to be the bank [employee] sifting some money off, or some corporate guy who was going to get rich anyway.
“I do not think that [cyber-crime] has had its day. There has not been something that’s large enough to generate large-scale awareness. Awareness is increasing, but we have not had that large event that makes people think: ‘This is really bad.'”
Yeah, she’s right. I figure that the UBS case, muliple identity thefts that little tiff with Citibank and the small misunderstanding with CardSystems Solutions.
[tags]FBI, Citibank, CardSystems, Shéna Boswell-Crowe, Digital Enron, Cyber-Crime[/tags]
