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The Web has prompted tremendous growth and innovation over the last two decades, but also a new set of challenges.
Cybersecurity has emerged as a significant global threat. Every day more than a million people are successfully targeted by cyber criminals.
===> That’s a new victim every 14 seconds. <===
Malicious attacks are mushrooming and conservative estimates put the annual cost of cybercrime at $114 billion. Given this, it’s hardly surprising that the World Economic Forum’s Risk Response Network recently elevated cybersecurity to a top five global risk, alongside issues such as income inequality, rising greenhouse gas emissions and fiscal imbalances.
Gust MEES: in the word ICT = "I", meaning "Information", so this is necessary in Education especially! IT-Security in 21st Century is a need to get included in curriculum, it's the responsibility of Education to teach IT-Security and Internet-Safety...
By knowing that every 14 seconds there is a new victim to cybercriminals I hope that educators and teachers will see the importance of preparing best their learners to be best protected, even if they need to learn themselves about it, we are ALL "Life Long Learners" ;)
Read more:
http://www.microsoft.eu/digital-policy/posts/tackling-cybersecurity-together.aspx
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Early Friday morning the world experienced the year’s latest cyberattack. Starting first in the United Kingdom and Spain, the malicious “WannaCrypt” software quickly spread globally, blocking customers from their data unless they paid a ransom using Bitcoin. The WannaCrypt exploits used in the attack were drawn from the exploits stolen from the National Security Agency, or NSA, in the United States. That theft was publicly reported earlier this year.
Learn more / en savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
https://gustmees.wordpress.com/?s=cybersecurity
https://gustmees.wordpress.com/?s=5+minutes