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Child Porn has Enemy on the Internet 24.06.13
The computer age surrounds us each and every day. The days of getting important information from textbooks and encyclopedias has long been replaced with search engines like Google and Bing ‑ which are always right at our fingertips. With the internet, parents know that there is a lot of unsuitable content out there that their […]
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Cybercrime in South Africa a crisis: expert
At a recent breakfast briefing on cybersecurity hosted by Neotel and the Mail & Guardian, information security consultant Beza Belayneh referred to cybercrime in South Africa as a “crisis”, and called on the government to make it a national security concern. He said the state needs to respond to cybercrime to prevent loss of life […]
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India has 42 mn cyber crime victims every year
The ‘Internet Security Threat’ report that was recently released by Norton (Symantec) has stated India has 42 million cyber crimes every year. According to the report, there are 42 million cyber crime victims every year on a pan-India basis. During the last year, 52 per cent of such victims had suffered attacks such as malware, […]
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Michael Jackson’s Entire Music Catalogue Stolen in Sony Music Hack 23.06.13
More than 50,000 Michael Jackson music files were hacked from Sony’s servers in 2011, the company recently confirmed. Jackson’s back catalogue spanning his entire career, in addition to unreleased tracks, were allegedly illegally downloaded by Brits James Marks and James McCormick, the Guardian reports. The two suspects will stand trial in January 2013. After the […]
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Report on crime against businesses ignores cybercrime 21.06.13
A new Home Office report finds that the number of crimes committed against wholesale and retail business premises has fallen significantly over the last ten years – from around 21.5m in 2002 to seven million in 2012. However, the report excludes cybercrime and Daniel Beazer, director of strategy at secure cloud hosting company, FireHost, has […]
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Employees looking at child porn in office, says cyber-crime expert
An international cyber-crime expert today warned that thousands of employees in London could be accessing child abuse images on work computers. Christian Berg also attacked this week’s Government proposals on tackling illicit web images of children, saying its plan was “not the right path”. Mr Berg’s firm NetClean makes digital products used by law enforcement […]