Fake AV Companies Making More Money than Security Vendors
Having spoken on the ‘Public, meet private: Lessons learned in chasing cyber crooks’ panel at the RSA 2011 conference in San Francisco, Pedro Bustamante, senior research analyst at Panda Security, tells Infosecurity’s Eleanor Dallaway why geography is obstructing cyber legal justice
While Bustamante concedes that law enforcement around information security has improved somewhat, he argues that it is still a slow, long fight when it comes to arresting the offenders. The main reason for this, he insists, is the “international problem”.
The different laws across geographies make it near-impossible to arrest non-US citizens. “The FBI and government are unable to bring legal action against non Americans targeting US citizens unless their country allows an extradition. It is very frustrating for both the public sector and security professionals that international laws are not holding them responsible”. As long as international cybercriminals don’t step foot in the US, they will never serve jail time, says Panda Security’s Bustamante.
