mcAfee is exposing popular cybercrime methods in a new web series that gives insight on the strategies some hackers use to exploit people for profit (identity theft, 419 cams, spear phishing, bank scraping, blue jacking, war driving, DDOS attacks, etc...)
via PC Mag:
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On Tuesday, McAfee launched a new film series on cybercrime. Titled "H*Commerce: The Business of Hacking You", the series will be released in six parts, a new part every two weeks.
"We produced the Web-based film to make cybercrime real for people, and to help consumers understand why they need to take precautions," said David Milam, McAfee's chief marketing officer, explained.
To produce this film McAfee called on Hollywood director Seth Gordon whose directing credits include the 2008 feature "Four Christmases" and a documentary about extreme video game competition called "The King of Kong - A Fistful of Quarters."
The episode released on Tuesday sets the stage with commentary from a variety of industry experts, among them Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and John Draper (aka Cap'n Crunch), inventor of phone phreaking.
Wozniak suggests that phone phreaks and true hackers have a strong ethic. "You aren't doing this to rip people off or make money," Wozniak said. "You're doing it to explore."
Draper points out that jailing hackers has had the unwanted side-effect of hooking them up with career criminals. "Once I got busted, I had to tell everybody else in jail how to do it," says Draper, "and then the cat's out of the bag. The next thing you know, the mob has this technology." Indeed most security pundits report that hacking and data theft are just like any other organized criminal businesses these days.
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they're rolling out the series at
Stop H*Commerce. i'm doing some work on the campaign - thoughts?
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