Underground economy servers
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[edit] What are they
“Underground Economy Servers” are used by criminals and criminal organizations to sell stolen information, including government-issued identity numbers, credit cards, bank cards and personal identification numbers (PINs), user accounts, and email address lists. To reduce facilitating identity theft, organizations should take steps to protect data stored on or transmitted over their computers. It is critical to develop and implement encryption to ensure that any sensitive data is protected from unauthorized access (source: Symantec
[edit] Impact & Maturity assessment
We assign this an Impact Level of 2, our intermediate level, based on our opinion that this will grow dramatically, due to the decreasing price of servers and their increasing ease of use. We assign this a Maturity Level of 1, as this is not widespread at the moment outside the peer to peer sharing community.
[edit] Information Assurance issues
Answer: what seem to be the likely information assurance issues of the emerging technology under discussion
[edit] Timescale
Is the impact of this emerging technology felt - now (less than 18 months) - in 2-5 years? - in 5-25 years - longer-term than that even
[edit] Examples
[edit] Comments (attributed)
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[edit] Organisations
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[edit] Documents & research papers
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[edit] Experts (academic, practitioner)
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