Europol Reveals Strategy to Fight Cybercrime

AMSTERDAM - European Union's intelligence agency, Europol, on Friday (7 / 1) local time, will present the level of threat that comes from cyber crime, along with a strategy to repel the attack.

"Cyber crime that are without boundaries, this makes the crime investigation more difficult and complicated for law enforcement authorities," said Rob Wainwright of the Europol. Similarly, as quoted by Computer World UK, Saturday (01/08/2011).

"In order to dispel cybercrime attack, needed legislation cross-sufficient region," Wainwright added. According to McAfee, the global corporate losses due to cyber crime is estimated approximately 750 billion euros ($ 1 trillion) per year. Then there are more than 150,000 viruses and 148,000 computer that hijacked every day.

The European Union has a high number for Internet users and as well as the use of e-banking. Ironically, the European Union is also the region most affected viruses and malware in the world. Hardware development also contributed to the development of cyber crimes, such as laptops, smart phones, game consoles and tablets. Everything is vulnerable to cyber attacks.

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Foursquare, Heaven For Stalker?

EDINBURGH - Be careful in using social networking sites "shared location" like the Foursquare, Koprol and other similar services. A man in Edinburgh, Scotland, admitted being followed for nine months by a woman who followed the movement in cyberspace.

Lothian and Borders Police received a complaint from a 26-year freelance designer from Stockbridge, Edinburgh. The man was admitted often followed by a woman 22 years, who met in an exhibition last year. This woman who has followed the designer in secret for nine months.

After meeting exhibition, the woman sent him an email and SMS and call her every day. She even often appear in places you've visited the man, even though they had just met. Known, the woman track the presence of the victim through the site location tracker Foursquare, the user can 'check in' to share information about their whereabouts with friends.

Designers were finally contacted the police after the woman sent an email to his clients as well as send some message with a false name and pretend to be interested hire him. Derek Graham, who works for an Internet Investigations Unit Lothian and Borders Police, claiming that this is the first case he encountered.

"Foursquare has been rampant. Up also launched a similar application where you can tell your location," said Graham. "Currently, all people interact online and it also has an impact on crime. You have to be careful with the information you provide (in cyberspace)," he continued.

"This is the first incident that I encountered but everyone should be careful. This problem is very likely to be larger. Interaction online is not going to disappear, so people should at least be vigilant," thoroughly Graham, as quoted by the Telegraph, Friday (7 / 1 / 2011).

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Internet Start to Shift Television Functions

CALIFORNIA - The extent of Internet functions slowly began to be able to shift the function of television in spreading information. The proof is in the research conducted by the Pew Research Center shows, the Internet was chosen as a source of information than television.

Survey of correspondents aged 18 to 29 years to prove that 65 percent, chose the Internet as a source of information. This figure rises to a 2-fold compared to the year 2007.

Mashable Quoted, Thursday (06/01/2011), while 40 percent of those aged 30 to 59 years agreed to use the Internet to get information. Compared to 2007, the number of television news audience for that age by 32 percent.

Meanwhile, the correspondent who aged 51 to 64 years, television remains a primary source for news.

"Users do not get out of the internet service the young people who kecanduang on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. In addition, there was a cultural shift in television viewers who prefer a show streaming on the web than watching television," wrote the Pew Research Center.

In addition, on television technology that can be directly connected to the internet to make broadcast television slowly being abandoned.

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