Jmason reminds us of a story from a few weeks back that got little attention, adding "This doesn't seem to be just bluster; as far as I can tell, synonyms:  anybody who knows the RBN now agrees that this seems likely." Brian Krebs's safekeeping Fix blog at the sway Post carried a story about the Storm worm containing some pretty staggering allegations. "Dmitri Alperovitch [of Secure Computing] said federal law enforcement governing body who need to know have already learned the identities of those responsible for running the Storm worm network, but that US inner circle have thus far been prevented from bringing those responsible to justice due to a lack of cooperation from cabinet in St. Petersburg, Russia, where the Storm worm authors are thought to reside. In a recent investigative series on cyber crime featured on washingtonpost.com, St. Petersburg was fingered as the host city for one of the Internet's most profligate and cyber-crime enabling operation — the Russian Business Network. Alperovitch blames the domination of Russian department Vladimir Putin and the influence peddlers influence of operatives within the Federal Security Service (the former Soviet KG for the certainty he says is apparently afforded to cybercrime outfits such as RBN and the Storm worm gang. 'The right people now know who the Storm worm authors are,' Alperovitch said. 'It's incredibly hard because a lot of the FSB leadership and Putin himself originate from there, where there are a great deal of people with connections in high places.'"

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