<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1893abe4-c986-4103-8c91-8f642c8ace51/CB9E0F78-66FE-4D95-8DD9-97C557401835/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.cnet.com/8601-1009_3-10066001.html?communityId=2114&targetCommunityId=2114&blogId=83#5019668" href="http://news.cnet.com/8601-1009_3-10066001.html?communityId=2114&targetCommunityId=2114&blogId=83#5019668" style="font-size: 11px;">news.cnet.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cnet.com/8601-1009_3-10066001.html?communityId=2114&targetCommunityId=2114&blogId=83#5019668"><P>A notorious Internet underground site that <A href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1929">ceased operation last week</A> has turned out to have been used since 2006 by the FBI as part of an an elaborate sting operation. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cnet.com/8601-1009_3-10066001.html?communityId=2114&targetCommunityId=2114&blogId=83#5019668"><P> DarkMarket was an online forum for <A rhef="http://news.cnet.com/8301-10789_3-10053523-57.html">"carders"</A>, those who buy and sell stolen identities and credit card information online. The site was recently made public with the arrest of "Chao," a Turkish criminal <A href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-10789_3-10062529-57.html">who allegedly stole personal information</A> from devices mounted over the card slots and keypads of ATMs. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cnet.com/8601-1009_3-10066001.html?communityId=2114&targetCommunityId=2114&blogId=83#5019668"><P> In a story on Monday, <A href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/darkmarket-post.html">Wired</A> revealed DarkMarket's primary operator "Master Splynter" to be J. Keith Mularski, a senior FBI agent. Wired credits <A href="http://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendungen/wissen/-/id=660374/nid=660374/did=3904422/p6601i/index.html">Südwestrundfunk</A>, a German radio network, for first reporting that the DarkMarket site was operated by the <A href="http://www.ncfta.net/">National Cyber Forensics Training Alliance (NCFTA)</A> in Pittsburgh. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cnet.com/8601-1009_3-10066001.html?communityId=2114&targetCommunityId=2114&blogId=83#5019668"><P> The DarkMarket site had been long rumored to have been under law enforcement control, however, that didn't stop online criminals from buying and selling credit card information through the forum. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CB9E0F78-66FE-4D95-8DD9-97C557401835/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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