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Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 09:36:27 -0600
[via Dewayne Hendricks via Dave Farber]
There is a crisis of trust in American democracy.
So begins a new report from the Knight Commission on Trust, Media and
Democracy organized by the Aspen Institute. It lays blame on our political
discourse, racial tensions, and technology that gives us all more access to
more commentary and news. ``In 2018, unwelcome facts are labeled as fake.''
<http://csreports.aspeninstitute.org/Knight-Commission-TMD/2019/report>
Part of the problem with trust has to do with *the ease of cyber-criminals
to ply their trade*. Once relegated to a dark corner of the Internet, now
many criminals operate in the public view, selling various pieces of
technology such as ready-made phishing kits to seed infections, carders to
collect credit card numbers, botnets and web stressors to deliver DDoS
attacks, and other malware construction kits that require little to no
technical expertise beyond clicking a few buttons on a web form. A new
report from CheckPoint shows that anyone who is willing to pay can easily
obtain all of these tools. We truly have witnessed the growth of the
Malware-as-a-Service industry.
<https://www.checkpoint.com/downloads/resources/under-the-hood-of-cyber-crime-security-report-2019.pdf>
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