Notations On Our World (Special Thursday Edition): On Internet Crimes

National Cyber Awareness System  IC3 Issues Internet Crime Report for 2016 Original release date: June 21, 2017 The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2016 Internet Crime Report, describing the numbers and types of cyber crimes reported to IC3. Business Email Compromise (BEC), ransomware attacks, tech support fraud, and extortion are all common schemes  affecting people in the U.S. and around the world. US-CERT encourages users to review the 2016 Internet Crime Report for details and refer to  the US-CERT Security Publication on Ransomware for information on defending against this  particular threat.  For further information, please visit the URL below:

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2017/06/21/IC3-Issues-Internet-Crime-Report-2016