A review on a post on Internet Security

In the developed countries with all the high technological equipments and facilities, a number of reports showing that there is a dramatic increase in identity theft. For example, McAfee had shown a report of significant increase in computer security breaches leading to the loss or potential loss of sensitive personal data. Research suggests that the numbers of key loggers, which are codes that put onto the computer without user’s knowledge and consent and tracks, records your keystrokes has increased two and a half times in just over two years. This means ALL keystrokes which are including your personal data, financial details and passwords.

Identity theft is not benign and exerts a powerful and economically significant burden amongst businesses and individuals throughout the world. In Gartner’s study, there is about 15 million Americans were the victims of fraud that origin from identity theft which indicates there is an increase of more than 50 percent from what they estimated in year 2003. The figures actually came from 2 different sources, thus there are two different statistical and methodologies.

At the same time, the research found out that identity theft victims are losing more money and getting less of it back. Besides, hackers nowadays are exploiting internet auctions, non-regulated money transmittal systems and other type of scams. However, there are some organizations being established in order to prevent the theft rate statistic risen and to stop all these threats and attacks incident widely spread.

Reference (Review):

http://ecommerze.blogspot.com/search/label/Internet%20Security

For more information: --> Fraud Watch International

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