Internet Security and Programming

I was traveling to speak at a couple of conferences most of the past week, so I missed out on covering some of the bigger cyber-security justice developments to come in a long while: The FBI announced it has busted up an online bazaar for cyber thieves, working with international authorities to nab at least 56 people suspected of buying and selling stolen personal and financial data, In other news, the Federal Trade Commission convinced a judge to freeze the assets of what’s being called the world’s largest spam gang. The FBI said said the arrests came after investigators infiltrated DarkMarket.ws, a Web forum for cyber crooks that once boasted more than 2,500 members who were interested in buying and selling credit card data, stolen user names and passwords. “What they didn’t know was that one of the site’s administrators and most respected members, who called himself Master Splyntr, was

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