Security economics: black market price of hacked servers drops to $6
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1HA1X)
A new Kaspersky report analyzes an online hacker marketplace called xDedic, where access to 70,000 hacked servers -- multiplayer game servers, billing servers, cellular/ISP servers, dating servers, betting servers, government and university servers -- in 173 countries can be bought for $6 and up. (more")