The director of counterthreat unit (CTU? Ugh) for SecureWorks wants to see criminal hacker gangs hunted down. He made his assertions about handling “cyber”crime during the RSA conference this week.
From Computer World:
“We need a new approach to fighting cybercrime,” said Joe Stewart, director of SecureWorks Inc.’s counterthreat unit. “What we’re doing now is not making a significant dent.”
Rather than pursue malware makers the old-fashioned way — a tack Stewart argued is haphazard, at best — he said that teams of paid security researchers should be created to stalk and disrupt specific criminal gangs or botnets. Set up like a police department’s major crimes unit or a military special operations team, the researchers would take a long-term view, get to know their target, perhaps even infiltrate the group responsible for the botnet and employ a spectrum of disruptive tactics.
While this may sound all well and good it raises a question. Where is the money going to come from? It may seem overly simplistic but, the police are out gunned on a massive scale in this respect.
Again, CTU? /me shakes head.
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[tags]#RSAC, Hacker, Computer Crime[/tags]