Indonesia occupied rank 10 in cyber crime

GadgetFan - Internet crime in Indonesia recently increased quite dramatically. It is also caused by a number of Internet users in Indonesia is increasing sharply.

This news was confirmed by security firm Symantec said that Indonesia accounted for nearly 2.4% of cyber crime worldwide in 2011.

Symantec Internet Security Threat Report in the 17 volume report is now ranked 10th in Indonesia as a country with the largest cyber crime activities during the year 2011. "It's a very significant increase," said Raymond Goh, Senior Director of Systems Engineering Symantec South Asia. In 2010 Indonesia was ranked only 28.

"Cyber ​​criminals are now beginning to glance at the social networking site to do the crimes," said Raymond. This occurs because the users of social networking is easier to believe the link or the content they receive from their peers.

Symantec's research also reported that in 2011 Indonesia managed to rank sixth in the world of spam zombie category of malicious programs. Whereas in 2010, Indonesia was ranked 28 just for that category.