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Cyber espionage a growing trend
According to McAfee’s “Virtual Criminology Report,” the rise of international cyber spying will pose the single biggest security threat in 2008.
“It is not just [the U.S.] that is on the incoming end of a lot of scams, penetration and attacks,” said David Marcus, security research and communications manager with McAfee. “It is easier and easier to engage in Internet-based crime at a variety of levels for true espionage and intelligence gathering because it is less costly and effective.”
He added countries like Estonia, Germany and India fell victim to attacks like multiple Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks this past year.
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