Technology is a force multiplier for evil.
Online crime is practically always international, because they almost always cross traditional national borders.
I'm vitally interested in cyber crime and in preparing law enforcement for a time when crime is international in its origins and its consequences.
The hacking trend has definitely turned criminal because of e-commerce.
The first thing I ever sold online was stolen.
Unfortunately cybercrime is the crime of our generation.
Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.
The annual cost of cybercrime to the global economy is more than $4 billion
Identity theft, financial laundering, as well as ransom and ransomware - I mean, think of it - all involving extortion of a hacked institution are becoming increasingly common.
[Computer viruses] switch from one country to another, from one jurisdiction to another - moving around the world, using the fact that we don't have the capability to globally police operations like this. So the Internet is as if someone [had] given free plane tickets to all the online criminals of the world.
A lot of people see scammers as, like, just one guy in a basement with his computer, but actually, I think it's probably almost kind of a call centre.
Hacking is very interesting. Once they hack, if you don't catch them in the act, you're not going to catch them.
