Source: http://www.mediacentral.com
Top Internet experts from the world's richest countries met on Tuesday to forge new approaches in the battle against growing cyber crime but acknowledged they had no solution to the problem:
"Data espionage and data theft, credit card fraud, child pornography, far-right extremism and terrorists are ever more common on the Internet," Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer told a conference of 100 government and industry experts. |
"Already today losses from cyber crime are $42.9 billion a year. And without a doubt, this is only the beginning," he told the three-day conference of specialists from the Group of Eight (G8) industrialised nations.
Experts say hackers are constantly attacking both government and private sector computer systems, sometimes with a specific aim to commit crimes, but often as a sort of intellectual test.
Software that enables hackers to break into private networks is widely available over the Internet itself, and in some countries such as Russia it is openly sold at outdoor markets.
