Dozens Happens Every Second Victim of Cyber ​​Crime

JAKARTA - Cyber ​​crime or cybercrime, the focus of attention for the security software vendors to provide superior products best.

It is important to remember a study that revealed the Norton Cybercrime Report recently revealed that in a second, going 18 victims of cyber crime in the world.

As revealed by Effendy Ibrahim as Norton Internet Safety Advocate & Director, Asia that year an increasing number of victims of cyber crime than in previous years.

Increase in the number of victims of cyber crime is accompanied by an increase in the number of internet users worldwide, and the resulting losses per year (for 12 months) to USD110 billion.

"The trend of cyber crime, now stand out to mobile devices. Lot of malware on laptops, PCs, and is now moving to mobile devices," said Effendy at the launching ceremony of Norton 360 Multi-Device in Jakarta, (11/10/2012).

He said the research involved to more than 13,000 adults in 24 different countries. The research also showed that approximately 556 million adults around the world affected by cybercrime, with a total loss by an average of USD197 per victim.

Research also found that cyber crimes such as fraud (fraud), occupying percentage greatest cyber crime is often the case (42 per cent). Research also showed that cyber crime victims per day reaches up to 1.5 million people worldwide.

"These are key things. This is not to scare people. We have reports, so people can be aware related to malware or cyber crime is going on out there," said Effendy.

He suggested that, to minimize the increasing number of cyber crime, the user can perform preventative measures, such as logging out of social networking accounts, check the reputation of the website or links.

In addition, friends with friends who really know in your social network, and apply privacy settings on your device.

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