New report questions whether cybercrime as a criminal activity is taken as seriously as it should be by the Police

With 1.7 billion, or 25 per cent of the world’s total population, online in 2009, the Internet is a massive medium which has spawned a new wave of criminal activities, including hacking, viruses, cyber-terrorism, illegal downloading and piracy, all of which need to be treated in a similar manner to more traditional criminal activities.A study by the University of Leicester Department of Crimin …[more]