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ronjor
October 22nd, 2004, 10:38 AM
USATODAY (http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-10-20-cyber-crime_x.htm)

-{ Quote: "Criminals shop on illicit computer bulletin boards for stolen credit card numbers as they would for books on Amazon.com. They threaten devastating electronic attacks on Web sites unless they are paid. Online bank accounts are under siege. And millions of hijacked computers, or zombies — infected with malicious code under the control of a hacker without the owner's knowledge — perpetrate the schemes without a trail." }-