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Australian crime : facts and figures 2003
Fraud and cybercrime
Number of cybercrime incidents by type, 2002
* Theft/breach of proprietary or confidential information
** Unauthorised access to privileged information by insider
*** Degradation of network performance associated with heavy scanning
Source
- Australian Computer Emergency Response Team 2002, Australian computer crime and security survey 2002, AusCERT, Brisbane. <http://www.auscert.org.au/crimesurvey>
What this chart shows
- The type of incident reported to have occurred with the greatest frequency was a virus/worm/trojan infection with 157 occurrences. The type that occurred least frequently was wiretapping and telecom eavesdropping, each recording only two incidents.