20 June 2012 by Pelle Neroth Another example: Two years ago
cyber thieves stole 30 million euros' worth of carbon allowances
from the European carbon trading exchange, forcing trading to
cease for some days on order of the European Commission. A third
recent incident: the social and business networking website
LinkedIn had six million user passwords leaked online after
users were targeted by fake emails asking them to confirm their
login details in a so called "phishing attack" by hackers. Cyber
crime is a broad church, including denial of service attacks,
attacks on critical infrastructures (like the Stuxnet worm),
botnets which marshal thousands of innocent owners' computers to
do cyber criminals' work, malware, online frauds, and child
pornography picture trading. It is a costly problem - £27bn a
year just in the UK, according to a 2011 Home Office study and
it is growing threat as more and more services like taxes and
benefits payments migrate online. It is also under reported. A
lot of scams affect milli