https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47016671
On the 27th of January, BBC news posted an article called “UK cyber-crime victims lose £190,000 a day”. BBC News usually uses factual information, but the way their articles are written has a slightly left-leaning bias. Although the BBC are considered a biased news source, I do not see any bias in this article, as it only lists statistics and recommendations for security. The article talks about the large amount of money lost due to cybercrime. In this case, residents of the UK lost £14.8 million in the past 6 months. They also talk about one of these scams – a “correct your licensing information” email, that required you to enter your credit card details. Throughout the article it says a few ways that you can “stay safer online”, whether that be watching what links you click or what phone numbers you call, to having a different password for email accounts.
This was a great article for me to start with, because it seriously highlights the loss that can occur with cybercrime, even with a big first world country like the United Kingdom. This article is obviously about the United Kingdom, but these statistics should be recognized by everybody to show how much cybercrime affects us. This article seems to repeatedly show examples of different cybercrime wherever possible, and they seem to be many extremes such as sexual extortion or mass amounts of money being siphoned. I’m curious on why it’s almost like they are trying to scare people, but I do agree with the fact that with all these instances of cybercrime, we need to make dealing with it a higher priority, before it gets worse and worse.
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