Today`s note will be about the internet criminals. I think this is very important subject nowadays because many people use internet for work or fun and it is easy to be deceived by internet fraudsters.
No website is safe from the increasing number of internet criminals who want your money.
Internet security threats are increasingly likely to come from popular, trusted sites with a large number of visitors. The growing sophistication of internet fraudsters and the techniques they use are resulting in an increasing number of cases where malicious code is finding its way into the web browsers of visitors to websites of reputable organisations.
The area where the threat level is highest is financial services. Frauds and malicious attacks involving bank and other finance-sector websites make up more than 70 per cent of the total.
The report says 76 per cent of phishing attacks target financial-services sites. Keystroke logging, a technique used to steal online banking log-on details, is another common form of attack. Twelve per cent of all data breaches in 2008 involved credit card information.
Other types of sites that are commonly subjected to attack are online retailers, internet communities, government sites, gaming portals, computer hardware and software sites and telecommunications company sites.
Local banks are reporting that fraud levels in some areas, such as cheque fraud, have gone down but the area where there has been a big increase is in card-not-present transactions involving credit and debit cards (card-not-present transactions take place online, over the phone and by fax).
So, to avoid being deceived, the confidential information you put online should be kept to a minimum. And don’t click on links that are not trusted sites!
