US Government sets up cybercrime unit in Washington
Computer Fraud & Security · 2002
Over 50% of all frauds committed in the first half of 2000 were ‘cybercrimes’. Not a day passes where you cannot pick up a paper and read of some new Internet fraud scam. Internet crime appears to be growing faster than the Net itself. For every new online service, another one has been hacked into, either deliberately, or as a result of some security flaw. That this is a fact has been reinforced by the release of new figures in December of last year by the International Chamber of Commerce. Its Commercial Crime Services division has reported that, “Web-based fraud is rising dramatically, accounting for two thirds of all the fraud cases it investigated for its business members in 2000.”