Hi malware fighters,
66% of adult users have had experiences of some form of cybercrime, the “Human Impact” report also looked at the “emotional impact” cybercrime has. 58% of the victims feel angry, 51% feel annoyed, and 40% feel cheated. Most of the victims will blame themselves, while 3% think it will not affect them.
Read the full report here: http://www.symantec.com/norton/theme.jsp?themeid=cybercrime_report
Link source: Norton Cybercrime Report
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I hate these type of headlines as they are invariably cr*p as there is no indication of what the 65% is. But it certainly isn’t 65% of all adult users in the world as that is an absolutely massive total even though they claim it is.
Sounds like Symantec/Norton trying to scare the reader and peddling their wares trying to sell the solution.
The so called crime reports below the dubious headline
Source is not reliable ;D
Many people do not even know they are victims.
How about this source
Cyber Crime Survey Finds Lots of Victims, Lots of Guiltby Paul Roberts
If you’ve fallen victim to a driveby download, phishing attack or virus laden PDF attachment, don’t despair: you’re in good company, according to a study sponsored by anti malware firm Symantec Corp. The anti virus software found that a whopping 73 percent of Internet users in the U.S. they surveyed identified themselves as victims of cybercrime…and feel really bad about it.
The survey was conducted by Symantec in cooperation with independent market research firm. It asked identical questions to adults in 14 countries and involved just over 7,000 participants, Symantec said in a press release. The U.S. had the third highest percentage of self-reporting cybercrime victims after China and Brazil where, respectively, 83 percent and 76 percent of those surveyed identified themselves as victims of at least one cybercrime- a term that includes infection by viruses, online credit card fraud and identity theft.
so yeah, it’s better not to even tell them, why make them unhappy ???
@ YoKenny
I love your having quoted this from the report:
The survey was conducted by Symantec in cooperation with independent market research firm. It asked identical questions to adults in 14 countries and involved just over 7,000 participants, Symantec said in a press release.
A very long time ago I had to go on a two week course a lot of which was about Statistical Analysis and boy would they have had a field day about cr*p like this.
This 7000 people would have been classed as statistically insignificant and you couldn’t possibly extrapolate to the whole adult internet population of the world.
Even if they were to say there were only 100 million adult users (like those using avast), a 7000 person sample is only 0.007% (statistically insignificant), so they can’t make any reasonable projection based on such a low sample.
Since we all know that there are many more than 100million internet users it makes that 0.007% figure even less significant, about 0.0014 if there are 500million adult internet users.
I agree with you
Lies, damned lies, and statisticshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics
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“Lies, damned lies, and statistics” is a phrase describing the persuasive power of numbers, particularly the use of statistics to bolster weak arguments, and the tendency of people to disparage statistics that do not support their positions. It is also sometimes colloquially used to doubt statistics used to prove an opponent’s point.