Canada's Cybercrime Report Card: Better or Worse in 2012?

[Dermot7]

Last May 2011, we conducted an analysis of Canada’s cyber security risk profile, which led to the discovery of a disturbing trend. Canada had become the newest breeding ground of cybercriminal activity.

In the hopes that things would get better, we conducted an exact comparison of the same cybersecurity stats one year later. And we were even more disturbed to see that in Q1 2012, hackers are still taking advantage of Canada’s “squeaky clean” cyber reputation and remotely controlling Canadian servers to carry out their criminal attacks.

Across the board, we’re seeing all types of malicious content coming out of the Great White North.

http://community.websense.com/blogs/...e-in-2012.aspx

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[siljaline]

This would be a patently false as there are, among many cases, the well documented event of Montreal based Solaria acquiring Lavasoft AB • This is still disputed •

A recent credit card sting made news aggregator feeds. There are plenty of pay-per-click based firms here, as well. To borrow from Canadian Marshall McLuhan, Cybercrime is a Global Village

[Dermot7]

The Microsoft SIR Worldwide Threat Assessment figures for phishing sites for end of 2011, on page 68, would not seem to concur with Websense findings, but then maybe a better overall judgement can be made by taking a range of findings into account, rather than just one analysis.
http://www.microsoft.com/security/sir/default.aspx

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