Online Shoppers Beware
ONLINE SHOPPERS BEWARE Whars lurking in your online holiday gift purchase? Cyber Criminals are Interested THE 2011 HOLIDAY SEASON WILL SE. Top online retailers' Business-to-consumer retailers 36% of all holiday shopping will be in the U.S. and Canada, based on online sales O Amazon.com 2 Staples 3 Apple 4 Dell online 5 Office Depot 6 Walmart.com $60 billion in total online sales 148 million online shoppers People will spend an average $400 each on gifts online Over 21 million people will shop from mobile 53% of smartphone us ers will use their device to research, shop, etc. devices There were 112,472 phishing attacks In the first halfof 2011 Ofthose. 520 different institutions were targeted • Banks • E-commeorks .Social • ISPS • etc. Malware cost consumers $2.3 billion last year. nerce sites 1/3 ofhouseholds experienceo* malware vear S of people e sensitive n their in the Ph sor mobile Pshopping, etc. to secure don nones their 6 of people Risk to the Public CONSUMERS WILL LOSE MORE THAN $10 MILLION THIS HOLIDAY SEASON DUE TO CYBERCRIME. Top 10 crime types® Non-delivery Payment/Merchandise 303,809 online crimes were reported in US in 2010 FBI-related Scams Identity Theft 14.4% Computer Crimes 13/2% Miscellaneous Fraud 9,1% Advance Fee Fraud 8.66 Spam Auction Fraud 7.6% People report 35 online crimes every hour 6.99% Credit Card Fraud 5.9% Overpayment Fraud 5.3% 5.3% 0% 5% 10% 15% Protect Yourself DON'T GET "SNOWED'ONLINE THIS WINTER! Holiday Shopping Tips * Visit retailers' software especially programs that provide browsing protection websites directly Vs. using a search engine to get there * Use Internet security Always check a site's URL before making any purchase (htps:// vs http://) S = secure F-Secure. SOURCES 1 http://www.internetretailer.com/top500/list/ 2 http://www.internetretailer.com/2011/10/18/holiday-shopping-lists-move-online 3 http://www.nrf.com/modules.php?name=News&op=viewlive&sp_id=1225 4 http://www.antiphishing.org/resources.htmläapwg 5 http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine-archive/2011/june/ electronics-computers/state-of-the-net/online-exposure/index.htm 6 http://ic3report.nw3c.org/docs/2010_IC3_Report_02_10_11_low_res.pdf All other stats: http://ic3report.nw3c.org/national_report.cfm# Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/F-Secure/107471754306 Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FSecure RSS feeds: http://www.f-secure.com/en/web/home_us/rss-feeds F-Secure Labs blog: http://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_globallabs-blog F-Secure Labs video channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/fslabs ph.0
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