web series on hacking and cybercrime

thought i'd share the web series i am helping promote for mcafee, called H*Commerce: The Business of Hacking You, about identity theft, internet security, and scammers who exploit people using the internet to make money.

via PC Mag:

"We produced the Web-based film to make cybercrime real for people, and to help consumers understand why they need to take precautions," said David Milam, McAfee's chief marketing officer, explained.

To produce this film McAfee called on Hollywood director Seth Gordon whose directing credits include the 2008 feature "Four Christmases" and a documentary about extreme video game competition called "The King of Kong - A Fistful of Quarters."

The episode released on Tuesday sets the stage with commentary from a variety of industry experts, among them Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and John Draper (aka Cap'n Crunch), inventor of phone phreaking.

Wozniak suggests that phone phreaks and true hackers have a strong ethic. "You aren't doing this to rip people off or make money," Wozniak said. "You're doing it to explore."

Draper points out that jailing hackers has had the unwanted side-effect of hooking them up with career criminals. "Once I got busted, I had to tell everybody else in jail how to do it," says Draper, "and then the cat's out of the bag. The next thing you know, the mob has this technology." Indeed most security pundits report that hacking and data theft are just like any other organized criminal businesses these days.

Future episodes track a complex scam inflicted on one Janella Spears of Oregon. Over a period of months Spears was tricked out of over $400,000 in a scheme that started with a simple e-mail scam. Gordon, the director, observed that "The most compelling way to convey the severity of cybercrime was to focus on the personal story of a specific victim." Jeff Green, the senior vice president for McAfee Avert Labs, agreed. "Viewers can put themselves in Ms. Spears' shoes, and understand the magnitude of the threat, and the vulnerabilities we all share online."

You can view the film segments as they're released at www.StopHCommerce.com. The site also offers resources to learn about cybercrime and online safety and lets visitors connect with McAfee's Criminal Response Unit, a free service that will help people stay protected or report a cybercrime. In addition the site will allow visitors to post information about their own cybercrime experiences.
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