What is cybercrime and what is its scale in financial terms? It covers profitable criminal activities involving use of computers and networks, but estimating its economic impact is not easy, since only a third of its victims lodge complaints. Yet according to an adviser to the US government, ‘. . . last year [2006] profits from cybercrime were some $105 billion, or greater than the profits from the drug trade’.
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