NBN threatens to put e-crime on steroids

Beverley Head
Tuesday, 04 August 2009 11:15

Business IT - Technology

In addition up to 100 websites a day in Australia were now hosting malware with 80 per cent of malware infections arising from so-called drive-by-downloads where people visited infected websites and unsuspectingly picked up a malware payload.

He warned that at present; “Law enforcement is not functioning in the area we work in and we have a misplaced trust in the technology.”

There was also a lack of comprehensive monitoring at the national level.

“Do we have a national approach to detecting attacks? No,” Ingram said, adding that even AusCERT was only able to track attacks in an ad hoc fashion.

He was concerned that the; “Whole e-crime thing is just getting out of control. We need a properly funded and structured capacity to track this in place before the NBN is rolled out.”