CYBER WATCH with Brent MacLean


Readily available and for sale on the Internet, botnets, phishing and Trojan scams are the new weapons of choice for anyone looking to steal data and lots of money


ARMS RACE F


THE NEW


or centuries, the sale of weapons — from guns to bombs — have made many people rich and infamous. Whereas yesteryear, when many of these arms were sold to unscrupulous characters to wreak havoc on a local or regional scale, today’s arms dealers are selling weapons to unsavoury people, who are looking to serve up disaster on a worldwide scale. Today, the arms are not firearms, grenades and ingredients to make a bomb, but computer viruses, botnets and spyware — the tools needed to hold people’s data hostage and in turn make big bucks for themselves.


30 SECURITY MATTERS • FALL 2011


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