I get the low level carders (or whatever you call them -- the folks buying card data and attempting to steal goods with it). If you're stealing $500 worth of gift cards at a time, it's not like you have many life alternatives.
But somewhere there's a series of folks that (1) engineered a symantec breach; (2) someone else either knew #1 or figured out how to get their hands on source; (3) security audited said source; (4) scanned the internet to find vulnerable servers; (5) pulled cards off those servers, and (6) sold them. It seems like there's more than enough technical knowhow here that these folks should be able to get software or security jobs, no? It doesn't seem like the card thieves make so much money that the reward / federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison ratio skews far enough.
And the more I read krebs, the more I think I should get a $2k limit credit card and use it for all purchases that aren't on amazon.
But somewhere there's a series of folks that (1) engineered a symantec breach; (2) someone else either knew #1 or figured out how to get their hands on source; (3) security audited said source; (4) scanned the internet to find vulnerable servers; (5) pulled cards off those servers, and (6) sold them. It seems like there's more than enough technical knowhow here that these folks should be able to get software or security jobs, no? It doesn't seem like the card thieves make so much money that the reward / federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison ratio skews far enough.
And the more I read krebs, the more I think I should get a $2k limit credit card and use it for all purchases that aren't on amazon.