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There is an ongoing battle around clock between hackers and bad hackers good. Most of the time, the good guys are losing. Here is an example of the bad guy gets caught.
At 19, an Israeli criminal hacker named Ehud Tenebaum made news as "Analyzer" (a great tag for a criminal hacker) after cracked and penetrated the Pentagon, NASA and even networks IT Hamas. 
He went silent and is believed to have launched a long international conspiracy 10 years for hacking of US networks and Canadian banks and other financial institutions. Losses are estimated at $ 10-12 million.
The analyzer hacking technique is considered as "SQL Injection", a tactic that I blogged about earlier, which exploits vulnerabilities in software development.
a forensic analyst who investigated abuses in both countries found a common denominator in each hack. Servers in Virginia owned HopOne, ISP, were used as a routing point, receiving their orders from another set of servers to a Dutch hosting company.
is where Big Brother is watching, and in this case, for good reason.
last spring, US investigators working with the Dutch authorities requested that all data traffic from the Dutch servers on the road in Virginia be intercepted by wiretapping and provided to authorities.
Meanwhile, criminal hackers from all over the world have used the stolen data to create white ATM cards and prepaid gift cards loaded with money. They withdrew cash from ATMs on three continents, to the tune of about $ 450,000.
According to Wired, traffic bugged included email discussions between many criminal hackers, about their achievements. An email address, Analyzer22@hotmail.com has provided investigators with their smoking gun. The Hotmail address had the name and age of Ehud Tenebaum registered with it. Not too smart, S.D.
Ehud Tenebaum Canadian owned and operated a computer security company called Internet Labs Secure. One of the IP addresses used to access the Hotmail account was registered to the company Tenebaum. Tenebaum phoned home and 
taken.
This is an example of organized high-tech criminals taking advantage of many gaps in the technology we use every day.
Be warned, there are many more to take the place of AND. Chances are, someone moved right where he left off.
invest in identity theft protection. Install and update Internet security software such as McAfee. Check your bank statements and credit card bi-weekly online and make sure to refute unauthorized charges within 30 to 60 days.
Robert Siciliano is CEO of IDTheftSecurity.com, an expert on identity theft, professional speaker, security analyst, published author and television news correspondent. Siciliano works with Fortune 1000 and start-up companies as a consultant on product launches, branding, messaging, representation, SEO and media. the thoughts and advice of Siciliano on all these issues often appear in both television and print media news, including CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, FOX, Forbes and USA Today. He has 25 years of safety training as a member of the American Society for Industrial Security. He is the author of two books, including The Safety Minute: Living on high alert; How to take control of your personal safety and to prevent fraud . He also established a partnership with Uni-Ball to help raise awareness of the growing threat of identity theft and provide tips on how you can protect yourself.
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