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Inside the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit

Posted by timothy on from the private-justice dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit has been spearheading botnet takedowns and other anti-cybercrime operations for many years, and it has had remarkable success. But the cybercrime problem isn't going away anytime soon, so the DCU is in the process of building a new cybercrime center here, and soon will roll out a new threat intelligence service to help ISPs and CERT teams get better data about ongoing attacks. Dennis Fisher sat down with TJ Campana, director of security at the DCU, to discuss the unit's work and what threats could be next on the target list."

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  1. Wait a minute by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is this an article about how the Windows 8 UI was designed?

    1. Re:Wait a minute by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 4, Funny

      Not to worry, somebody already modded it with a "Troll", which is even funnier...

  2. When are they going to arrest... by Viol8 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... the Windows development team for allowing such a security swiss cheese of an operating system to escape from the lab and the marketing team for trying to sell to innocent consumers?

    1. Re:When are they going to arrest... by Nerdfest · · Score: 4, Informative

      Isn't almost every single instance of Android malware a Trojan? In the case of Windows, for years a large percentage was drive-by exploits of IE, ActiveX, and just about every other part of the system.

  3. "remarkable success" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You mean how they play whack-a-mole with botnets and claim victory when they accidentally hit one, but stay curiously mum when the very same botnet pops up again only two weeks later?

    N'mind that they've been criminally lax in improving their software, creating a very easily planted very fertile ground for an entire flora and fauna of malware to grow and prosper in the first place. They created this "ecosystem" on a much grander scale than this "remarkable success" in taking down little pieces of it, for a short while.