E-CRIME & WEB THREATS

Overview

Businesses are now facing a new type of information security threat whose characteristics are less widespread in number, more insidious, better-targeted, financially-motivated and driven by organised crime. This is no longer the domain of teenage hackers, but hardened criminals for whom information-based crime offers bigger rewards and less risk than crime in the physical world. Their target is information - confidential corporate or personal data - that can be sold for profit or used for fraud or extortion. This trend toward "hacking for profit" has been signalled by respected sources such as the SANS™ Institute (United States), the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (United Kingdom) and Websense Security Labs™ (global).