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Cybercrime risk a perfect storm brewing, warns AVG report

The report, authored by the research agency The Future Laboratory, reveals that while cyber criminals and malicious programs are becoming increasingly sophisticated and difficult to detect, users are, alarmingly, becoming less vigilant ab [...]

Posted On : Sep, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

4 in 5 Indians are victims of cyber crime: Reports

Cyber crimes have cost Indians $4 billion. A Norton study revealed that global cyber crime costs nearly $114 billion, annually. In India, it is estimated that more than 29.9 million people fell prey to cyber crimes in the past one year [...]

Posted On : Sep, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Report highlights increasing threat of cybercrime

According to a recent report on cybercrime, more than two-thirds of online adults (69 percent) have been a victim of cybercrime at some stage in their lifetime. "Every second 14 adults become a victim of cybercrime, resulting in more [...]

Posted On : Sep, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Hackers post documents from Italian cybercrime unit

The hackers posted a trove of apparently confidential documents online and claimed much more was to come from systems at CNAIPIC - il Centro Nazionale Anticrimine Informatico per la Protezione delle Infrastrutture Critiche. So far less th [...]

Posted On : Aug, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Cybercrime Statistics Expose Five Industries Most Susceptibl...

Internet Security Awareness Training (ISAT) firm KnowBe4 has released new cybercrime statistics that identify the nation’s most Phish-prone™ industry sectors, which are those most susceptible to cybercrime ploys. The top five [...]

Posted On : May, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Cybercrime: the biggest threat in policing history

Cybercrime is the biggest challenge Australian police have ever faced, said the fraud chief of Queensland Police. His statement may raise eyebrows of those who see murders and organised crime as the greater threat, but detective superinte [...]

Posted On : May, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Reports New Shift in Cyber Crime

According to Microsoft's new Security Intelligence Report (SIR) (Volume 10), there are 2 main approaches that cyber crime has taken. One approach is for the Cyber criminals to target large organizations using sophisticated tools, whil [...]

Posted On : May, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Which popular ADHD drug is in short supply, and why

A popular ADHD pill is in short supply, and that has people who depend on the drug scrambling for solutions. "It's a huge inconvenience," Erin Fox, manager of the drug-information service at the University of Utah Hospital & [...]

Posted On : May, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

SA Police turn to distributed review system to handle cyber ...

An uptick in cyber crime in South Australia has forced the state’s police service move to adopt a distributed review system to help its investigators work on more electronic crime cases more quickly.South Australia Police has operat [...]

Posted On : May, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

‘Responsive IT legislation can check cyber crime’

For the teeming participants that thronged the Golden Gate Restaurants Ikoyi Lagos, venue of this years edition of Titans of Tech lectures and award night, last week, the major aim was to see how to tackle the issue of cyber crime which [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Government cyber-crime report just sales puffery

You might recall that last week, consultant firm Detica produced a report on the overall cost of cyber-crime in the UK, in conjunction with the government Office of Cyber Security. The damage of which was calculated to be £27 billi [...]

Posted On : Feb, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Security Firm Tracks Cybercrime Hotspots

The world's first cybercrime index is being launched by online security business Norton.The company says the aim is to give online users an instant snapshot of daily cybercrime around the world. Some 65% of people worldwide - an [...]

Posted On : Feb, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

State cyber crime cell hit by lack of skilled manpower

The state cyber crime cell has high-tech equipment to handle such offences but appears to be suffering from a shortage of skilled manpower. Bangalore got an exclusive cyber crime police station in 2001. Tamil Nadu has none. Though t [...]

Posted On : Jan, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Cybercrime migrating to mobile and Apple: Cisco report

Annual Security Report also points to rise of "money mules". The tide in cybercrime is shifting away from attacks on Windows machines and migrating to the mobile marketplace, according to a report from Cisco. While the pas [...]