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Cybercrime More Lucrative Than Drugs

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the things-that-really-do-pay dept.

prostoalex writes "Yahoo is reporting that global cybercrime overtook global drug trafficking in terms of revenue this past year. In related news, only 4% of Internet users can flag 100% of phishing e-mails as fraudulent, and Americans filed 207,000 reports on cybercrime to FBI."

4 of 282 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Curbing malware and cyberthreats by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You know, your sig isn't really accurate. 'Effect' can be used correctly as a verb. For example, I can hope to effect a change in something.

  2. Re:Curbing malware and cyberthreats by Hayzeus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Um, no. Check a dictionary:

    From mw online:

    Function: transitive verb
    1 : to cause to come into being
    2 a : to bring about often by surmounting obstacles

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    Roving Web-Teleoperated Robot
  3. Re:Curbing malware and cyberthreats by jeblucas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually, you're wrong. I started a thread about this in a Pet Peeves poll a few months ago. Check it out. Affect and effect can be used as nouns or adjectives. Admittedly, most folks here still screw them up.

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    blarg.
  4. mod dow8 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and the stri1king need to jobin the said one FreeBSD