Saturday, April 28, 2007

Crooks target students for cyber crime / Tech.co.uk, 26 Apr 2007
http://digbig.com/4ssrr
James Rivington
"I was offered £20,000 to build Chip and Pin machine"
Cyber criminals are so desperate to defraud innocents online that they are turning to tech students for help. McAfee said that criminal organisations are funding students through university to gain their help once the studies have finished.
Tech.co.uk spoke this morning to a Cybernetics, Electronics and Engineering student who was offered £20k by a Jamaican gang for help in cracking the security on Chip and Pin cards."