Security Attacks Increasingly Motivated By Greed

earthstar writes "E-commerce has emerged as the "single most targeted industry" according to the latest Internet Security Threat Report from security software provider Symantec, with hackers now appearing to be motivated by economic gain rather than notoriety. "We're seeing an increase in profit-motivated attacks," says Vincent Weafer, senior director of Symantec's virus research team. Also in Information week"

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In other news.

[Anonymous Coward]

It was discovered recently, that majority of activities of humans are driven by economic gain ...

Re:In other news.

[savagedome]

Absolutely. Nothing in this article except another futile observation passed on as a study.

If it contains money, they will come. Nothing new here. It has always been like that through the history of humankind. People used to keep money in the form of gold and *they* came. People started keeping money with their head of village and *they* came. People put the money in lockers/safes and *they* came. People started using banks and *they* came. Now people are using the web to store/trasnfer money and *they* are here.

Another side effect of the .crash

[qbzzt]

Five years ago, if you were l33t (= had a few technical skills you could show off), you could work for a .com and get big bucks just for showing up. Now that most .coms are .deads, getting money for technical skills is harder.

It makes sense that as legit jobs are harder to get, some people, especially those who got addicted to the easy money, will look for non legit work.