IT security company Symantec says New Zealanders, particularly millennials, have lax cyber security practices that have resulted in more than one-third of the adult online population being affected by cybercrime in 2017, and between them losing $177m.
Two in five Kiwi kids have been harmed by cyber crime or a negative online situation between 2012 and 2013. What’s more, 57 per cent of NZ children that were such victims admit to hiding what they do online from adults.
If the Internet is the new Wild West, then hackers are the wanted outlaws of our time. And like the gun-slinging bad boys before them, all it takes is one wrong move to land them in jail.
Police officers are behind the eight ball when it comes to dealing with cybercrime, a Queensland Police Service officer has said.
Updated Friday July 27, 2012
External threats might be what you read about most in the media, but internal inadvertent mistakes can cause as much harm for any organisation, according to industry experts.
The 2014 Internet Security Threat Report highlights the developments in cyber-crime in the last year and provides an analysis in global threat activity. Highlights from the report are: • Hackers continuing to attack PCs, as well as mobile devices, security cameras, routers and more • The number of data breaches has risen 62% from 2013, identity breaches up 493% • Ransomware attacks rose 500% and have evolved into more vicious assaults