<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Samantha Bradshaw</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sbradshaw@cigionline.org">sbradshaw@cigionline.org</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 9:56 AM<br>Subject: GCIG Paper No. 16 now online -- Global Cyberspace Is Safer than You Think: Real Trends in Cybercrime<br>To: RAN Members <<a href="mailto:ran@ourinternet.org">ran@ourinternet.org</a>><br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Today the GCIG secretariat issued working paper No. 16 by Eric Jardine.
<i>Global Cyberspace Is Safer than You Think: Real Trends in Cybercrime</i> can be downloaded and read by visiting:
<a href="https://ourinternet.org/publication/global-cyberspace-is-safer-than-you-think-real-trends-in-cybercrime/" target="_blank">
https://ourinternet.org/publication/global-cyberspace-is-safer-than-you-think-real-trends-in-cybercrime/</a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">IT security firms publish yearly reports that generally show the security of cyberspace to be poor and often getting worse, but, as argued in this paper by Jardine,
the level of security in cyberspace is actually far better than the picture we’re given. Currently, numbers on the occurrence of cybercrime are almost always depicted in either absolute numbers or year-over-year terms. To get a more accurate picture of the
security of cyberspace, cybercrime statistics — including mobile vulnerabilities, malicious web domains, zero-day exploits and web-based attacks, among others — need to be expressed as a proportion of the growing size of the Internet. Jardine also offers policy
recommendations for the improvement of IT security.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">It would be greatly appreciated if you shared the link to this new research paper with your colleagues via your social networks. For those of you on Twitter, we
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">[New Report] Global cyberspace safer than You think: real trends in cybercrime by @ehljardine:
<a href="http://ow.ly/PABYA" target="_blank">http://ow.ly/PABYA</a> cc: @OurInternetGCIG<u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Best regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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