Inside the Digital Underground (CNET News)

Credit Cards are the "money" in the online world. Millions of people use them everyday to pay their bills and buy things online. Unfortunately, most users do not how to protect this sensitive card information online and end up becoming victim's of phishing scams. Also, in many cases even the E-commerce sites do little to safeguard the user data and become victims of hack attacks. We all know the TJ MAX story.

In these short video clips, Tom Rusin, President and Chief Executive Officer of Affinion's North America operation talks with CNET News about the digital underground. Note that these are just excerts from a larger interview and discussion session. You can read the full article here. Sadly, the article is only text and not video :( but a good read nonetheless. A podcast is available here.

Thanks go out to Rachel James and IDexperts for referring this video to us.

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Vivek Ramachandran is a security evangelist and has been working in computer security related fields for the past 7 years. In 2007, Vivek spoke at world renowned conferences Defcon (WEP Cloaking Exposed) and Toorcon (The Caffe Latte Attack). The discovery of the Caffe Latte Attack was covered by CBS5 news, BBC online, Network World etc news agencies.In 2006, Vivek was announced as one of winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among 65,000 participants. He has also been a recipient of a Team Achievement at Cisco Systems for his work on 802.1x and Port Security modules on the Catalyst 6500 switches. Currently he spends all of his time maintaining Security- Freak.Net , SecurityTube.Net and is the co-founder of Axonize. Vivek, is a Bachelor in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.You can contact him at vivek[at]securitytube.net