Police are so concerned that cyber-fraudsters are running so out of control that they have called for a public awareness campaign to be launched, similar to that introduced in the 1970s and 80s to combat drink driving.
Modern business needs protection from increasingly sophisticated cyber-criminals, fraudsters and others.
"The last thing anyone needs is for their details to be compromised by cyber criminals and online fraudsters - especially during the Christmas period.
Krebs has become perhaps one of the most reviled enemies of the cyber-underworld, but I suppose that was bound to happen once he made it his life's work to expose the web's elusive cyber criminals and credit card fraudsters.
Krebs has become perhaps one of the most reviled enemies of the cyber-underworld, but I suppose that was always bound to happen after he made it his life's work to expose the web's elusive cyber criminals and credit card fraudsters.
Imagine an unholy alliance between cyber-utopians, money-launderers, financial fraudsters and ultra free-marketeers.
The Metropolitan Police meanwhile urged internet Christmas shoppers to exercise caution when making their purchases to avoid falling victim to fraudsters and its new Cyber Crime Unit has put together a check-list for people buying on the web.
And then there are things that are designed to shock, which I find much more irritating than an encrypted webpage that's simply trying to bring together stolen identities and aspirant fraudsters using the same cyber-efficiency with which Airbnb unites tourists and bedbugs.
Cyber security and the threats from extortionist hackers, intellectual property thieves and fraudsters, rose swiftly up the agenda for most companies.
Commissioner Adrian Leppard told a cyber-crime conference this week that detectives have carried out hundreds of prison interviews with convicted fraudsters to discover the secrets of investment cons that cost the UK £30bn every year.
