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BoxerJoe

03/30/09 9:56 AM

#11011 RE: cash money #11010

Online theft costs $1 trillion a year

The threat of cybercrime is rising sharply, experts have warned at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/davos/7862549.stm

"The internet was vulnerable, they said, but as it was now part of society's central nervous system, attacks could threaten whole economies.

The past year had seen "more vulnerabilities, more cybercrime, more malicious software than ever before", more than had been seen in the past five years combined, one of the experts reported."