Bad Security: The War on Cybercrime Hits a Penetrable Patch: Research shows Internet crime is...

There's no shortage of strategies and rhetoric when it comes to protecting

e-banking and other Internet-related businesses from the criminals hatched by the New Economy. There's enough patches, protection plays and promises of safety to fill a book, or an entire issue of a magazine if one were so inclined. But questions remain as to whether all of these measures are stopping criminals in any substantial way.

New research from the U.K.-based firm Next Generation Security Software (NGS) strongly suggests there are still gaping holes through which customer inf