How – & Where – Cybercriminals Hide
If you were a criminal looking to hide money-laundering operations, anonymously rent swaths of Web infrastructure for Internet badness, or create a financial base to threaten national security, where would you look? Panama? Liechtenstein? Offshore islands?
Try a leisurely two-hour drive from the White House and the Capitol, in the great state of Delaware.
Delaware holds the No. 1 spot in the recent Financial Secrecy Index (FSI) rankings of secretive jurisdictions compiled by the internationally respected Tax Justice Network, an independent organization promoting justice in tax issues. This undesirable accolade for Delaware was earned for its policies permitting cheap and easy company formation and the hiding of details about corporate ownership, all of which adds up to non-disclosure of the most important corporate information.
Several other U.S. states — Nevada, Oregon, and Wyoming — have also received international criticism…
via How – & Where – Cybercriminals Hide | HostExploit News.
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