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Cyber Reach Thousands Each Year USD720
by toniayis ·
Many young people prefer bright path Cyber criminals, because the profession is indeed tempting. Based on FBI data, a ‘rock star’ in the cyber world can have an income approximately USD720 thousand per year. Can imagine how rich they are when compared with IT experts calculations according to income only $ 10 thousand per year.
It was revealed, Norton Business Lead South Asia Region, Effendy Ibrahim at the Norton 2010 launch event at the Grand Hyatt Jakarta, Thursday (8/10/2009).
The motivation of money is what makes the cyber criminals do more vigorous action, such as stealing someone’s identity on the Internet. “Every three seconds, a stolen identity. We can not ignore, as this virtual world crimes destroy the lives of more than computers,” said Effendy.
Effendy expose criminals were able to sell the email account with the price $ 15 per account, or credit card with the price of USD98. “The price depends on demand, when demand increases so prices will rise,” he said.
The threat of cyber crime in the world, according to Velasquez happens every quarter of a second. “Can compared to the potential for crime in big cities like Jakarta, which every 9 minutes, or in Tokyo for two and a half minutes. Action in the virtual world more terrifying,” said Effendy.
Not only that, criminals virtual world is also very active re-create and create new and unique malware with the expectation that go undetected by signatureancaman long as possible. Norton himself, trying to ward off further Effendy all threats by using new technology codenamed Quorum is claimed capable of detecting new malware unrivaled.
“Security threats are growing in number and more sophisticated would probably be overcome with a method signature and behavioral heuristics files only, I believe Quorum technology will serve as the basis of the Internet security industry,”
