Imam Samudra

Abdul Aziz aka Imam Samudra aka Qudama (born January 14, 1970 in Serang, Banten) is an Indonesian convicted for his part in the 2002 Bali bombing. On 5 September, 2006 he was sentenced to eight years jail for sheltering Noordin Mohammed Top, the alleged mastermind of the plot.

External links

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2509589.stm Police to quiz Bali 'mastermind' BBC News 25 November, 2002]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2499943.stm The Bali bomb 'commander' BBC News 2 June, 2003]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5314976.stm Indonesian jailed over Bali plot] at BBC News

Imam SamudraMore than any other case study, the case of Imam Samudra underscores the critical importance for credit card information security. Samudra is a member of the Al-Qaeda linked terrorist group Jamaah Islamiah in Indonesia. He was the mastermind behind the Bali nightclub bombings in 2002 and intended to finance the Bali attack through cyberfraud.Samudra is technologically savvy and a computer expert. While in prison in 2004, he wrote a jailhouse manifesto. It was an autobiography of his jihadist life. The book contained a chapter, entitled “Hacking, Why Not.” In it, he urged fellow Muslim radicals to take holy war into cyberspace by attacking U.S. computers. Samudra described America’scomputer network as being vulnerable to hacking, credit card fraud, and money laundering. The chapter did not focus on specific techniques. It focused on how to find techniques on the Internet and how to connect with people in chat rooms to perfect hacking and carding skills. It was a course of study for aspiring hackers and carders. Samudra discussed the process of scanning for websites vulnerable to hacking and then went on to discuss the basics of online credit card fraud and money laundering.