It has recently been brought to our attention that many small as well as medium sized businesses have been victims of cyber crime at one point or another. This information has been obtained from a survey which has been conducted. Symantec Corporation recently compiled a survey and the results showed that over fifty six per [...]
06.9.10 | Computer News | Computerexpert
All cyber crime can be linked back to a particular person or people – with one aim in mind – gaining from someone else’s loss. You can easily refer to cybercriminals as the digital era’s bandits – online mafia as it were… organized criminals utilizing the cyber world as their playground for mayhem making. It [...]
04.1.10 | Computer News | Computerexpert
Methodical criminals, largely based outside of the United States and Western Europe, are automating the creation and amendments of new viruses, making it possible to toss out thousands of variations of the same virus every few hours, in an attempt to stay a step ahead of the anti-virus firms. Today‘s cyber criminals are endlessly updating [...]
03.23.10 | Computer News | Computerexpert
It has recently been reported that the IT governance has published a book. This book is called Assessing Information Security: Strategies, Tactics, Logic and Framework. It applies the principles in Sun Tzu’s The Art of War in order to right cybercrime. This is a very interesting phenomenon. The “The Art Of War “is well known [...]
03.16.10 | Computer News | Computerexpert
Cyber crime is being propagated by the fact that cybercriminals are leveraging new technologies, as well as reinventing social engineering forms, so as to coerce and entrap consumers. Due to this very fact, the last six months has seen an increase in Web threats, and a steady decrease in Adware and Spyware, as a combating [...]
03.4.10 | Computer News | Computerexpert
It has recently been discovered as well as reported that the 2010 Fife World Cup which is going to be taking place in South Africa this year is going to increase the number of cybercrimes that are taking place on our online world. Popular company Symantec has actually brought out a computer security initiative which [...]
03.2.10 | Computer News | Computerexpert