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Lax Brazilian Cybercrime Laws Breed Cracking Community
Posted by Paul Szynol on Thursday, November 28 @ 00:52:23 EST Computer Crime
They may not have the skillz of their Eastern European counterparts, but Brazilian crackers live in a country with lax computer crime laws, and so operate with a greater degree of impunity. Xatrix Security reports that November's top ten most active cracking groups are all from Brazil. "As a result," the report says, "Portuguese has now become the lingua franca of the hacking underground."

Indeed, in yet another case of international computer crime, a security company in South Africa has busted a Brazilian cracking group called, in a 1337 speak tribute to Unix, r00t3rs.

IOL coverage of this particular development is here.

 
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