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Wednesday April 06, 01:48
UK big businesses experience Hi-Tech crime
(by Helen Snow)
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The survey carried out for the UK National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) showed that almost nine out of ten firms suffered some kind of hi-tech crime in 2004 with total losses amounting for more than ₤2.4bn.
Despite viruses or worms attacks, fraud and information theft threatened the companies’ data security.
Among areas of computer crime was the insertion of software on PCs, either through external access or via insiders, according to the NHTCU’s survey.
This opens up a way for sending information and even transferring money to spivs "on an industrial scale". But the theft of data seems more frequent and dangerous crime for big businesses.
"Organised crime has really professionalised itself," said Detective Superintendent Mick Deats, deputy head of the NHTCU.
"There’s a grey area in the law about data theft," he said, making prosecution difficult unless the theft is linked to fraud or blackmail.
The NHTCU explained the fact of its limited ability to deal with hi-tech crime that some firms are unwilling to inform the authorities of their problems being afraid of some undesirable results of investigation.
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