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Cybercrime More Lucrative Than Drugs

November 28th, 2005 Leave a comment Go to comments

Slashdot have an item up for discussion relating to the “explosion” of cybercrime.

This won’t be going away anytime soon but its not all doom and gloom. Security awareness, appropriate software and some common sense will keep you secure.

Yahoo is reporting that global cybercrime overtook global drug trafficking in terms of revenue this past year. In related news, only 4% of Internet users can flag 100% of phishing e-mails as fraudulent, and Americans filed 207,000 reports on cybercrime to FBI.

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