DORSET has one of the highest rates of cyber crime in the UK, figures reveal - with hacking the most common method. During the pandemic between March 2020 to March this year, a study revald Dorset has recorded 57.4 victims of cybercrime per 100,000 people - the sixth highest rate compared to other areas in the UK. The study comes from security company ESET, which suggests the hacking as a leading criminal activity, which accounts for three quarters of reported cases. Hacking social media and email accounts is the most common of all types of cybercrime with 15,367 reports (46.7 per cent) in 2020, followed by computer viruses at 8,103 (24.62 per cent). Personal hacking comes in third with 5,579 (16.95 per cent) in 2020, then hacking extortion at 3,144 (9.55 per cent).
Dorset comes sixth for highest number of cyberattacks across UK
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Understanding what drives teen hackers is key to securing your business, says cyber expert Sheldon Newsham
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Understanding what drives teen hackers is key to securing your business, says cyber expert Shelton Newsham
Natural curiosity can lead some to open some wrong doors
Company directors underestimate the risk of cyber attacks, largely because they don t believe themselves to be a target. That s according to Shelton Newsham, who spent 20 years in the West Yorkshire Police, including four as leader of the Cyber Prevent and Cyber Protect functions and the Organised Crime Unit of Yorkshire and Humber Police, before leaving at the end of last year to set up a consultancy Newsham Business Solutions Ltd.
In his Cyber Prevent role, he and his colleagues acted as mentors for young people who for one reason or another had come to the attention of the police, with the aim of persuading them to direct their disruptive talents into GCSEs and A-Levels rather than veering off into illegality.