ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet

The 2011 edition of the Insafe Annual Report has now been published.

The Annual Report provides an overview of Insafe's work over the last year, including its entry into an umbrella coordination with the INHOPE network of internet hotlines.

From Friday 23 September to Sunday 25 September 2011, the ‘YOU’ fair took place in Berlin, Germany. ‘YOU’ is the biggest youth fair in Europe, and an event for young people from all over Germany and from the neighboring countries. It includes four different areas: music, sports, lifestyle and education.

In the education area, the visitors particularly find information, for example about different apprenticeship possibilities and various topics concerning politics and society. On Friday and Saturday, the German Internet Awareness Centre, klicksafe, also participated with a booth in the education area in cooperation with the Senate Administration for Education, Science and Research Berlin, the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information and others. The overall motto for the booth was “How linked up are you?”.

Each year, for the past four, Norton has delved deeper into the far-reaching negative affects of cybercrime on real people as well as tried to get a pulse on how the security implications of new emerging technologies and trends are shaping the way people use the internet.

The study continues to be groundbreaking on a variety of levels and further exposes the truly devastating emotional and economic impact of cybercrime. This year the study is the most comprehensive to date as Norton has expanded its research to represent 24 countries, up from 14 last year. It has connected with 20,000 people around the world to gain an understanding of how cybercrime affects real people in real ways and how the adoption of new technologies, such as mobile, will affect people’s security.

The costs of cybercrime are criminal: 388 billion USD lost in just 12 months. While half the world is in recession, cybercrime bucks the trend as a growth industry.