1. CONCLUSION
Crime and no punishment
Some victims never recover from exploitation. Their credit record is
forever scarred by a hacker's fraudulent transaction, the malware uses
the victim's address book list to forward itself to friends and family
members, victims of intellectual property theft spend tens of millions
of dollars in repair and prevention.
The worst part is that almost none of those who use the above
malicious attacks are successfully prosecuted. The professional
criminals on the Internet are living large because the Internet isn't
good at producing court-actionable evidence. It's anonymous by
default, and tracks are lost and covered up in milliseconds. Right now
we live in the "wild, wild West" days of the Internet. As it matures,
the criminal safe havens will dry up. Until then, IT security pros have
their work cut out for them.
