SL ranked among countries prone to computer attacks

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Sri Lanka has been ranked 8th on Kaspersky's list of countries with the highest percentage of computer attacks. The security company found that 51 percent of its users there faced online assaults.

About 15 percent of Sri Lanka's population, or an estimated 3.2 million people, were online last year, according to Internet World Stats.(Bloomberg)

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SAM_SPARROW Wednesday, 12 June 2013 04:50 AM

It is a big deal that they even consider SL for census.

Nihal Amarasekera Wednesday, 12 June 2013 04:56 AM

Ranked 1st on political "jilmart"?

Fair N Square Wednesday, 12 June 2013 04:58 AM

are we, as a country that vulnerable ? umm we need more cyber policing and anti hacker software installed on the computers... tho they are not much of a use...

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Lishantha Wednesday, 12 June 2013 12:00 AM

so they want all of em to by Kaspersky! sigh!!! I'm using AVG and have had no issues!!! via DM Android App

Anjana Wednesday, 12 June 2013 10:56 AM

kaspersky users can Survivor from this...........

Ben Wednesday, 12 June 2013 04:38 AM

Maybe we should stop using Kaspersky then? i have avast and have no issues what so ever!

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