AVG: Most cybercrime targeting 'wetware' weakness
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The latest security report from AVG has suggested that cybercrime is increasingly targeting the careless 'wetware' rather than the computer itself - with users' laissez faire attitude to security a major problem
The wonderful 'wetware' term being bandied about by AVG is a reference, of course, to people, and the security firm insists that we are now the major problem.
That's because a third of Europeans surveyed don't update their anti-virus software (guess what AVG makes), and it is the 18-35 age group that is, apparently, most at fault.
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"It's clear that cybercriminals are getting more and more sophisticated, not only in their programming but also in their methods," said Dr An... »read more
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