Lots of intellectuals within computer science within Eastern Europe have lots of knowledge and know how. However, they are struggling getting a computer related job. Especially during the recessions or depression going on these days all over the globe, but hits the Eastern Europeans more than anywhere on the globe.

This is a fact that the criminal organizations has and still use to their advantage. Their knowledge is turned into tools within the computer crimes and lots of them are working for organized networks like the Russian mafia.<br><br>

If a company with online business, whether its sales of products or services or anything else are desperate enough to win a fight towards their competitors, and they are willing to step over the legal boundary, they can pay some few hundreds of dollars for a DDOS attack on their competitors servers.<br><br>

They are even offered a 10 minutes test to see if their competitor will grind to a halt or not. Or even if competitors would like to look into secret documents stored on their servers? For only a few hundred dollars this is also possible to achieve. You want to check if your girl or boy friend have some secrets stored, like photos or anything else? Just put the money on the table and the secrets are sent to your email if you want it done.<br><br>

Behind all these services are hackers, those almost mythical figures portrayed in the movies, media as cult figures. We have been shown characters in for instance the classic movie from 1995, where Angelina Jolie acts as the pretty and hip hacker called Acid Burn, and in Matrix movie where the idealistic hacker called Neo is portrayed by Keanu Reeves. These characters are not so far from the reality as we would think. They are around us today, operating in various roles and activities, both legal and illegal.<br><br>

They are hard to catch<br><br>

In August last year, one of the most serious ID theft cases was revealed to us. Eleven persons were caught and taken to justice for having stolen more than 40 million bank cards. The data were sniffed from various store chains in USA and stored on servers in Eastern Europe and sold further to other criminals. The people behind this was one unknown from China, three Americans and one from Belarus, one from Estland and three more from Ukraine.<br><br>

The attacks comes as we all know, from Eastern Europe were hacking seems to be very common and wide spread phenomena.<br><br>

So why is this the case? Why are there so many cases related to Eastern Europe? Often the hackers are located in countries were it is difficult to have a effective cooperation with the police authorities. It is of course an advantage to have less chance to be taken when dealing with activities like this. <br><br>

The level of technologoy know how in these countries are very high, as traditionally these countries have good educational systems which enables people with skills to aspire wthin these areas.<br><br>

Today it is very difficult for these skilled persons to get work in the traditional industry, both in private and public sector, and they need money to earn for a living like anyone else.<br><br>

The mafias have their own IT departments<br><br>

The education increase in Eastern Europe, but faster than job opportunities and then computer crime will become a way of living for these highly educated people. There are people who have a full time job working with computer crime.

He has a background as civil engineer and geoscientist. He has worked mainly within the oil and gas industry from the mid 1980s. He has written a few fictional novels as well as being the author of some professional litterature within oil and gas sector, he is now an editor of some web sites.

Article Source:http://www.articlesbase.com/cyber-law-articles/hacking-the-last-option-for-job-as-a-computer-specialist-in-eastern-europe-763450.html

Written by: OSAblogger / Bill Wardell - Please Read Our Latest OSA eZine Edition

Popularity: unranked [?]

OSA Related Posts

• Don’t Let Your Data Fall Into The Wrong Hands Removing data from a hard drive, permanently, is something that sounds an awful lot simpler than it proves to be in reality. As we all know deleting a file does not remove the file or its content from the hard drive permanently, data recovery companies can normally aid in the......
• Crisis Intervention Team Counselling Services Centre is the only Agency in Counties Manukau providing a 24 hour, 7 day per week response service for victims and survivors of sexual assault. Our Crisis Intervention Team consists of a group of qualified and experienced women who are there for you and your whanau. We work......
• What is Identity Theft? Identity theft: when your personal information is stolen and used illegally, to open accounts in your name. According to the Federal Trade Commission, identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes in America. What techniques are being used to steal personal information? Phishing and spoof. Impersonating a well-known organization......
• Learn More Information About Free Dating Online inside this Blog Post As one of dating professionals you must always have a ready wit and able think about your feet. Dating professionals know and understand that in the world searches of acquaintances in your trip to find love, road which often accepts you on the stony road, and you do not always......
• Internet Based Guerilla Armies Attacking National Internet Services and Grind Systems to a Halt Internet based guerilla armies attacking national internet services and grind systems to a halt.Latest attack is Kirgisistan which became isolated from the internet by hackers in January 2009.<br><br> An internet based guerilla army of hackers makes sure that Kirgistan is having problems with their internet access outside the country.<br><br> Since......

OSA Related Websites

• All About Emergency Funds The news is full of heartbreaking stories about people losing their homes, going bankrupt and facing financial ruin. If you don’t want to be among them, it is time to take a hard look at some steps that you can take to insure yourself against financial ruin. One of the......
• PPC Basics: How To Make Your Business "CLICK" In essence, PPC advertising is all about bidding for the top or leading position on search engine results and listings. Advertisers do this by buying or bidding on keyword phrases that are relevant to their products or services - the higher the bid, the higher the spot on the search......
• The Weakonomist Endorses a Candidate: Part II Yesterday we took a dive into the candidates.  On one side we have a young left-wing democrat on the other we have a dusty old war vet that only after winning the primary won the the favor of his fellow Republicans.  The only way we could have greater opposites is......
• Earn Your Street Cred Like 50 Cent Photo by @sahxic < twitter You ain't no gangsta You'se a busta, a customer, a sucker - from You Ain't No Gangsta My two sons were arguing the other day, which isn't unusual for teenage brothers to do.  I'm just glad when they don't come to blows over a......
• Save Time, Money and Space in Over 80 Ways If you're looking for handy gadgets, tools and various items that can save you time, money or space (or all three!) this list of more than 80 top products is just what you need. Everyone's got saving money on their minds these days. Some of us are always looking to......