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Just about everyone these days has heard of cyber crime.   While most people are aware of this crime, few are aware of the extent to which these modern day midlevel thieves are organized and beyond.  What the FBI is now faced with is the growing concern that these petty thieves are becoming very skilled in their profession.  What is more significant is the awareness that these thieves are now becoming organized and networked.  

The products of the computer industry – its hardware and software advances – are now working against it.   As an example, RATs – or Remote Access Tools – are a class of software utilities that were originally designed to allow legitimate service provides to diagnose and shoot bugs on user PC at any distance over the internet.  They are now used by cyber thugs for access to literally anything on your hard drive.   They can now even get past corporate firewalls.   Hello, Corporate America.

Another even better example of twisted technology application are the key logger spots.  These software subroutines – or spots – are robot-driven and scan client platforms in search of illicit access codes and usage fingerprints such as porn or dating sites.  These are typically disallowed sites on company provided computers and terminals – hence their function in business environments.  What they now support is permanent residency on your PC with search parameters to find your sign-in User IDs and Passwords from everything including your online banking use.  Then, when your Checking Account balance reads $0 you learn, amazingly, that the money was wire-transferred to a bank in the Seychelles – which does not extradite.  Technology is so great, is it not?

The most recent development in cyber crime is known as Shuffling.   This is the organized handoff of responsibility for the progressive ownership of stolen data – a crime now referred to as Deposit Residency.   This is the now relatively formalized process of placing not only software but data on your system.  Previously, access to one’s PC was simply for the purpose of taking – or copying – data.  Cyber thieves now recognize that your PC is also a great place to put something – i.e. stolen information – so the real owner cannot be traced.   The tracking leads to the computer on which the stolen data was placed.   That identity is the identity of the computer where the stolen data is now kept – your computer.

How does one become protected from cyber thieves?  Password protect everything, install the best virus protection, install an expensive but worth it Firewall, and, finally, stay off all porn, music, and movie download sites.  All of them.

Lastly, locate and purchase a top registry software package that does all the necessary maintenance functions automatically.  They also do other registry fix functions that accomplish any needed Registry Repair.

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