{"id":1898,"date":"2006-10-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/10\/10\/britons-fear-cybercrime-more-than-burglaries\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:40:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:40:15","slug":"britons-fear-cybercrime-more-than-burglaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/10\/10\/britons-fear-cybercrime-more-than-burglaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Britons fear cybercrime more than burglaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A survey released by the UK government has revealed that the British public is now more fearful of cybercrime than burglary and crimes against the person such as muggings.  The survey was carried out by Get Safe Online, a cybersecurity awareness campaign launched last year by the British government, UK&#8217;s Serious Organised Crime Agency and private technology companies.  According to its results, Internet users fear bankcard fraud the most (27 percent), followed by cybercrime (21 percent) and burglary (16 percent).  According to the survey, 52 percent of those questioned did some of their banking online; nearly a third (32 percent) used the Internet to pay their bills, while just under a quarter (23 percent) shopped for groceries over the net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A huge 17 percent also felt that the dangers far outweighed the positive aspects and preferred not to use the Internet at all.<\/p>\n<p>According to Patrick McFadden, a junior minister at the Cabinet Office quoted in The Guradian: &#8220;Fear of online crime is an important issue that must not be ignored.<\/p>\n<p>Report can be downloaded from: http:\/\/www.getsafeonline.org\/media\/GSO_Cyber_Report_2006.pdf<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.viruslist.com\/en\/news?id=201544436<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4385,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions\/4385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}