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Symantec recently hosted Government Security News editor-in-chief Jacob Goodwin on a "Black Market Tour" that demonstrates how information is stolen and sold by hackers throughout the world.  As Goodwin mentions in his story, Symantec has received a terrific reception for this educational exhibit which has toured Toronto, New York City, Washington, Tokyo, London and Mountain View, CA.

Goodwin's take?

"The Black Market Tour attempts to recreate a hacker's "lair," where the evil-doer might use phishing software to fool victims into allowing key-logging software to track their computer's keystrokes. The hacker might then grab their victims' account numbers, passwords, security codes and the answers to a slew of security questions, all in an effort to assemble marketable "personal identities" which can be sold in bundles to nefarious buyers via the...