The Security Mentor

There is actually a way to answer this. When viruses, trojans and other infective software on your machine get hold of a credit card number, they send it to a drop someplace where the bad guy can retrieve it. Study the software or watch the network traffic and you can find out where the drop is, and maybe see how much is going into it.

Lance James of Secure Sciences, author of a book about phishing, has done just that, and mentioned his findings on a security mailing list recently. What kind of numbers is he seeing?

Two million credit card numbers stolen, since January.