cybercrime
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- noun
- /ˈsaɪbərˌkraɪm/
- Texting
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cibercrimen
- To build awareness around the problem of cybercrime and malware, ESET is launching a month-long campaign in San Francisco.
Did any of them at any time ask their Russian pals if they would lay off the international cybercrime?
- Did any of them at any time ask their Russian pals if they would lay off the international cybercrime?
- But let's imagine if this was perhaps a more serious cybercrime attempt, an attempt at fraud or, or a bigger plot.
- Served his time and now is helping people understand and fight cybercrime.
- The thing about cybercrime is you don't have to know how to code.
- So for financial cybercrime, it's really the Ukraine.
- You're going to go, right, Cybercrime, right?
- And that, that's, to be honest, I think that's sort of my mother in law's words were I thought you did cybercrime.
Examples
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The potential losses from cybercrime can also reach far beyond the stakes in most conventional financial crimes.
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Meanwhile, local police agencies often lack the resources to pursue cybercrime, says Creasman.
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In financial terms, it is estimated that cybercrime costs the average U.S. company $15 million a year.
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Such electronic attacks, which have come to be known as cybercrime, are being committed with increasing frequency against businesses of all sizes.
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How concerned are you about the cyber threat, cybercrime, and cyberterrorism?
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There are some people who say the threat from cybercrime—the financial threat and threat to our economy—is overhyped.
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The civil component of this statute allows targets of cybercrime to obtain compensatory damages, injunctive relief, and equitable remedies.
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Another misperception is that cybercrime only affects technology companies, says W. Scott Creasman of Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy in Atlanta.
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In recent years, cybercrime has increasingly targeted vulnerable individuals through identity theft.
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Many organizations implement security measures to protect themselves from the rising threat of cybercrime.
How Serious
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cybercrime joins cyber- (the part that now means 'computer or internet') and crime ('illegal act'). The cyber- part comes from an old Greek word for 'steer' used for controlling machines, so cybercrime means illegal acts done using computers or online.