60 billion emails every day

Internet users worldwide send no less than 60 billion emails a day, but most of them are spam and phishing emails.

Source: Tifton

Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom's chief executive, said cybercrime is becoming more and more powerful and sophisticated. "This huge flow of Internet-based email traffic means that industries, governments and users need to be alert and highly cooperative ," he said.

German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schauble warned of the strong development trend of phishing problems in the present time. Criminals often create fake emails or websites, which are in the real form to trick users into providing passwords and other sensitive personal information. The problem of phishing not only threatens users, but it also stirs up both online banking and e-commerce.

" In 2005, global phishing increased dramatically - 300% compared to 2004. It is estimated that phishers have successfully cheated to . 5% of Internet users worldwide ". And of course, according to him, the economic damage to them is not small.

The Federal Crime Prevention Agency (BKA) of Germany said this month it had closed a phishing network in Germany and Latvia, discovering customers of a number of potentially lost online banking services. millions of euros.

While phisher hunting techniques become more and more sophisticated, users are almost completely off guard and do not use any kind of protection. Even in Germany, one in four users do not have antivirus software installed and more than half have no firewall.

The situation may be worse in the US, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer commented. However, there are signs that users have started to become more aware of protecting themselves against the ring of cyber criminals.

According to Steve, it's important that software vendors like Microsoft make sure their products are as secure as possible. However, tightening security must be a combined effort of many parties, from government, technology to users themselves.

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