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Issue #21
Warnings of
fraud, cybercrime and spamming lead On the Pulse this month, striking fear
into our readers at the end of the week. The good news is that one
of the world's most prolific spammers has been arrested. Our inboxes
will never be the same again! Even with all this bad news, online
sales in the UK passed the £10 billion mark in 2006.
We’ll keep
doing our best to make sure we send you genuinely useful snippets and if
you have any comments or suggestions for a future article, please drop us
a line. And don't forget to tell your friends!
Director, Sixth
Sense ESP
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Online fraud costing £580m
Online
fraud is costing UK retailers as much as £580m a year, and could
rise to £1.5bn by 2010, according to research published
recently...
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Cybercrime beats the drugs trade
More
money is made from cybercrime than from the drugs trade, said Gregg
Day, senior security strategist at McAfee, speaking at the ITWeb
Security Summit yesterday...
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Top spammer arrested
A
27-year-old man described as one of the world's most prolific
spammers was arrested Wednesday, and federal authorities said
computer users across the Web could notice a decrease in the
amount of junk e-mail...
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UK online sales over £10 billion
Online
sales in the UK hit a record £10.9 billion in 2006, according to
analyst Verdict.
Verdict
expects the number of online sales to almost treble to £28 billion
in the next five years...
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