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International cooperation in cracking down on cybercrime has increased, said a computer crime specialist with the U.S. Department of Justice. Microsoft is to issue its latest patch update on Tuesday and has already warned users that some are rated critical. UK companies lost a total of £2.45bn to e-crime according to new figures from the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU). The internet's no longer dominated by script kiddies looking for bragging rights. So said experts at both the recent RSA Conference in California and the Cyber Security Summit in Florida. Today's attackers want money, not an underground following. Eugene Kaspersky is Moscow’s malware maestro. But, as David Quainton discovers, his management style is a little unorthodox Organized crime on the internet is a growing threat but the sky is not falling. A 19-year-old man was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison and 10 months of community service for releasing a variant of the Blaster worm that infected thousands of PCs in 2003. Last year saw new threats but some old problems too, as Ron Condon reports The search has begun for the nation’s next infosec leader, and the successor has some big shoes to fill. Illena Armstrong reports The Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA) has formed of a coalition of technology companies and industry organisations in a bid to promote the ratification of the Council of Europe's Convention on Cybercrime. Employees use email and the internet to do their work every day. So do cybercriminals. Illena Armstrong explores how to manage a company’s indispensable pet, information Cybercrime will focus on attacking specific organizations or companies for extortion in the next year, moving away from mass global attacks, a recent report has said. Police in Manchester are investigating the case of a Rochdale woman whose computer files had been encrypted by cybercriminals. Today, computer networks of many companies look like a well-guarded military fortress. Rajesh Patel explains why devices, policies and people are all elements of optimal and total network security Spam is more than a simple time and bandwidth drain. It is a problem that many organizations are having a tough time eradicating. Think what the world of IT was like in 1990. A few lucky researchers, military personnel, government workers and assorted hangers-on would have been able to enjoy the novelty of fledgling email and internet services. If you were a forward-thinking large corporate, you might well have a mainframe or a minicomputer network storing and processing crucial data and, although dial-up modems could connect systems to each other and enable remote terminal access, viruses and hack-attacks were minor worries. The occasional infected floppy disc might contain some malware that could potentially compromise the contents of your expensive 40mb hard drive, but a relatively up-to-date antivirus programme would probably protect you. Hackers and virus writers were mostly a minority sub-culture of cyber-kids operating from their bedrooms bragging and swapping war stories on underground bulletin boards. Trying to get an accurate, unbiased reading of today’s Internet security arena is like trying to get a non-fuzzy, close-up and genuine photograph of the Loch Ness Monster. Tighter regulation and higher levels of cyber attacks will increase the role of the CSO in 2004. Marcia Savage reports