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Internet security is broken, and nobody seems to know quite how to fix it. Despite the efforts of the computer security industry and a half-decade struggle by Microsoft to improve the security of its Windows operating system software, malicious software is spreading faster than ever. The so-called malware surreptitiously takes over a PC and then uses that computer to spread the software to other machines exponentially. Computer scientists and security researchers acknowledge that they cannot get ahead of the onslaught. As more business, commerce and social life has moved onto the Web, gangs of elusive criminals thrive on an underground economy of credit-card thefts, bank fraud and other scams that rob computer users of an estimated $100 billion a year, according to a conservative estimate by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. A single Russian company that sells fake antivirus software, which actually takes over a computer, pays its distributors as much as $5 million a year. With vast resources from stolen credit card and other financial information, the cyberattackers are handily winning a technology arms race. “Right now the bad guys are improving more quickly than the good guys,” said Pat Lincoln, director of SRI International’s Computer Science Laboratory. A well-financed computer underground has built a major advantage by working in countries that have global Internet connections but ineffectual law enforcement agencies that have little appetite for prosecuting offenders who are bringing in significant amounts of foreign currency. That was driven home late last month when RSA Fraud Action Research Lab, a security consulting group, reported that it had discovered a cache of a half-million credit-card numbers and bank-account log-ins, all of which had been clandestinely harvested by a large network of zombie computers remotely controlled by an underground online gang. In October an independent group of researchers at the Georgia Tech Information…
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