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...Secret Service agents say they've uncovered the biggest e-commerce extortion scheme ever, involving more than one million credit card numbers stolen by hackers working with Russian and Ukrainian organized crime. Agents say the mobsters hack e-commerce sites, download customers' personal information and credit card numbers, then call victim companies to extort protection money. They threaten to post the purloined personal information and card numbers on the Internet - angering current customers and scaring off prospective ones - if the companies don't hire them as "security consultants...
...More than 40 U.S. firms are working with U.S., Russian and Ukrainian investigators to help locate the hackers, agents say, noting that the number of victim companies could climb into the hundreds, and the costs into the hundreds of thousands of dollars...
...operating system. Microsoft developed a downloadable patch for the glitch as early as 1998. But many e-commerce sites have ignored Microsoft's security upgrade bulletins. Even after the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center site published an urgent warning last December, several dozen more cases of attempted Russian mob shakedowns were reported...
...addition, Russia has begun to warm to its former Cold War allies. One alliance that played a key role during the Cold War was revived last week as Russian President Vladimir Putin and Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong signed an agreement on strategic cooperation, giving Moscow its strongest ally yet in Southeast Asia...
...heyday of the Cold War, American intelligence officers used to scour May Day pictures in Pravda to gain clues about Russia's leaders and the general state of our arch-enemy. By analyzing these pictures, they learned who was in control, how healthy they were, how good the Russian economy was, and other useful tidbits. Watching President George W. Bush's speech last Wednesday, anybody could have learned the same things about our country, even without moles in the FBI. They would have seen that our country is in good shape, though we possess some of the wackiest leaders this...