Call to Arms for Corporate Chiefs to Attend “Critical” Cyber Conference

Criminal and commercial perils are combining. As companies increasingly move processes abroad, intelligence from the internet community shows that illegal syndicates are recruiting staff at outsourced call centers and bribing or coercing them to betray confidential customer information. In a recent report to Oxford University, England, it claims more than 11 million have been remotely hijacked by gangs and reconfigured as “zombies” to enable illegal file sharing and mail relays without their users knowledge.