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Cybercrime on the Rise
Posted by Paul Szynol on Monday, January 27 @ 00:46:10 EST Computer Crime
The New York Times has published an article about the increase of crime in cyberspace (Crime Is Soaring in Cyberspace).

Not only are the currency figures higher than ever -- "technically skilled thieves and rank-and-file employees are stealing millions if not billions of dollars a year from businesses in the United States and abroad" -- but the categories of stolen goods have grown, too:

Thieves are not just diverting cash from company bank accounts, these experts say. They are pilfering valuable information like business development strategies, new product specifications or contract bidding plans and selling the data to competitors.
The number of incidents has increased as well -- 20,000 in January alone (a substantial increase from October's monthly record of 16,000).

In most cases, à la Office Space, the perpetrators are employees, though other factors also make detection difficult--often, for instance, the stolen good is IP; and "the authorities are outnumbered and, in many cases, outsmarted by criminals with better computing skills".

 
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