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AVG: Most cybercrime targeting 'wetware' weakness

AVG: Most cybercrime targeting 'wetware' weakness Created by MG1 on Sep 16, 2011

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.
Sophisticated
"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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