Comments on: Sweden: An Interesting Demographic Case Study In Internet Fraud http://newschoolsecurity.com/2009/12/sweden-an-interesting-demographic-case-study-in-internet-fraud/ The Blog Inspired By The Book Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:21:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jesper Kråkhede http://newschoolsecurity.com/2009/12/sweden-an-interesting-demographic-case-study-in-internet-fraud/#comment-627 Jesper Kråkhede Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:17:20 +0000 http://newschoolsecurity.com/?p=1162#comment-627 Hi! Just want to give you some further numebers and a comment regarding data gathered. Sweden is a very organized country. The referenced organization, FI, stands for Finance Inspection, a governmental anthourity that is tasked to monitor all finance institutions in sweden. The figures are very reliable. They types of attacks are mostly skimming and attacks towards user authentication mechanism using trojans. Phising attemps do exist but mainly fails. There are no figures on the number of attacks each days but from the patterns I daily see I would suspect that at least two attacks per person each day (including phising) Number of arrests for this kinds of crime is rather low as it is mainly carried out from other contries. Broadband penetration is very high, more or less all grownups have acccess to broad band. The greater majority (80%) uses internet banking. Authentication mechanism are improving towards two factor authentication. The average scam is around 1 500 - 2 000€. Every week 300 000 credit cards is stolen all over europe. Hi!

Just want to give you some further numebers and a comment regarding data gathered.

Sweden is a very organized country. The referenced organization, FI, stands for Finance Inspection, a governmental anthourity that is tasked to monitor all finance institutions in sweden. The figures are very reliable.

They types of attacks are mostly skimming and attacks towards user authentication mechanism using trojans. Phising attemps do exist but mainly fails. There are no figures on the number of attacks each days but from the patterns I daily see I would suspect that at least two attacks per person each day (including phising)

Number of arrests for this kinds of crime is rather low as it is mainly carried out from other contries.

Broadband penetration is very high, more or less all grownups have acccess to broad band. The greater majority (80%) uses internet banking. Authentication mechanism are improving towards two factor authentication.

The average scam is around 1 500 – 2 000€.

Every week 300 000 credit cards is stolen all over europe.

]]> By: Adam http://newschoolsecurity.com/2009/12/sweden-an-interesting-demographic-case-study-in-internet-fraud/#comment-621 Adam Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:15:57 +0000 http://newschoolsecurity.com/?p=1162#comment-621 If you don't know how the data is gathered, how can you decide if it's reasonable data? If you don’t know how the data is gathered, how can you decide if it’s reasonable data?

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