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UAE sees 1.5m cyber victims in past year - Norton
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 01:16:33 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/uae-sees-1-5m-cyber-victims-in-past-year-norton-475434.html By Andy Sambidge ArabianBusiness.com 7 October 2012Norton by Symantec on Sunday revealed that more than 1.5 million people fell victim to cyber crime in the UAE in the last year.
Its annual Norton Cybercrime Report said the average UAE victim suffered direct financial losses of $283.
The global study is based on self-reported experiences of more than 13,000 adults across 24 countries and calculated the direct costs associated with global consumer cybercrime at $110bn over the past 12 months.
It said every second, 18 adults become a victim of cybercrime, resulting in more than one-and-a-half million cybercrime victims each day on a global level.
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