World Economic Forum calls for laws to force cybercrime openness
Governments should consider legislation to force businesses to be open about the impact of cybercrime, according to the World Economic Forum.
There is an urgent need for more openness over the risks posed by cybercrime to businesses, gover ...
Cyber espionage on the rise in the Middle East in 2011
A senior IT security expert has revealed a worrying rise this year in the number of cyber-attacks on businesses in the Middle East, including cases of corporate espionage.
Bulent Teksoz, chief security strategist at world-leading security ...
PwC: Firms in China and HK overconfident on their IT security
Companies in China and Hong Kong have a false sense of security, said PwC recently when releasing results of its 2012 Global State of Information Security Survey. Kenneth Wong, partner, Risk & Controls Solutions at P ...
Asian countries send half of the world's spam messages , Sophos
A new report found that Asia accounted for just over half of the world's spam in Q3, with several Asian countries’ contributions swelling over the past year. According to security firm Sophos, Asia accounted for 50.1% of global ...
Study: Cybercrime costs rival those of illegal drug trafficking
A new study published by Symantec research company revealed that Young males in emerging markets are the most likely to fall victim to cybercrime, whose total cost per year is approaching the scale of illegal drug trafficking worldwide, acco ...
UK: 8.5 million Homes victim of cyber attack
A new study revealed that one in three homes in the UK were the victim of some form of cyber-attack in the first three months of the year.
According to a study conducted by YouGov, almost one in three households (close to half of all homes ...
Over one million adults around the world are the victim of cybercrime every day, Norton
A newly published cyber security report paints a gloomy picture regarding the effect of cybercrime globally.
The Norton Cybercrime Report 2011 estimates that cybercrime cost online consumers over the 24 countries surveyed a total of $388 b ...
Parks: Broadband Home Security Monitoring to Grow 30% by 2020
New research by Parks Associates forecasts that the US market for IP-based home security monitoring services will grow 30% by 2020.
The market generates as much as $10 billion in revenue annually from service fees and covered 18% of U.S. h ...