Mntsnow
09-20-2004, 11:14 AM
The computer has replaced the gun as the ideal weapon as criminals turn increasingly to the internet as a tool for separating Joe Public from his money, crime-fighters warned at an international conference here.
Cyber-attacks on the unwary "are becoming more and more frequent and more and more serious," Andy Letherby of Britain's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit told a gathering of 200 experts at a Council of Europe conference on "The Challenge of Cybercrime" that ended in Strasbourg on Friday.
The border-free virtual world with its easy anonymity, instantaneous communications, relative lack of material evidence and hundreds of millions of potential victims has become favoured terrain for organised crime, experts warned. Read more at Australian IT (http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,10818981%5E16681%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html)
Cyber-attacks on the unwary "are becoming more and more frequent and more and more serious," Andy Letherby of Britain's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit told a gathering of 200 experts at a Council of Europe conference on "The Challenge of Cybercrime" that ended in Strasbourg on Friday.
The border-free virtual world with its easy anonymity, instantaneous communications, relative lack of material evidence and hundreds of millions of potential victims has become favoured terrain for organised crime, experts warned. Read more at Australian IT (http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,10818981%5E16681%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html)