Aside from 2008, which is an outlier due the recession, there is a trend in Cyber Monday popularity growing along with Facebook users.
The popularity of "cybering," as online sex is called -- masturbating in real time to sexually explicit typed messages -- has lately been supplemented (among boys, especially) with a mania for Web cams and microphones, which allow them to see and hear each other masturbate, using programs like Microsoft's NetMeeting.
Macs No Longer Immune to Attack Apple devices, once seemingly impossible to penetrate, will become the victim of heightened focus from cyber criminals as they continue to gain popularity.
Beyond deploying breach prevention controls in the infrastructure or beefing up managed security services, one of the safeguards gaining popularity to help companies manage their risks is cyber insurance.
Online abuse and cyber bullying have emerged as major issues alongside the explosion in popularity of social media sites.
The android OS was chosen as the application environment, due to its popularity that makes it one of the main attack targets of cyber criminals, especially for banking applications.
It may not just be its popularity that has made Android a target for attackers and cyber-criminals.
The fact that OS X has now been targeted speaks to the popularity of Apple's operating system – ransomware is a fairly common form of cyber threat these days as victims are often likely to cave into attackers' demands.
For example, a single film, "Deep Throat," generated more than $100 million in sales, thanks in large part to the popularity of VCR's, Frederick S. Lane III writes in his book "Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age" (Routledge, 2000).
But cyber espionage is not cyber war".
