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http://business.financialpost.com/2011/05/09/canada-new-breeding-ground-for-cyber-crime/ By Jameson Berkow Financial Post May 9, 2011 Canada is becoming a new breeding ground for cyber criminals, according to a report obtained by the Financial Post. The number of Canadian servers found to be hosting phishing sites -- malicious websites designed to lure visitors to enter sensitive personal information -- jumped 319% over the past year, says the report to be released Tuesday from cyber-security firm Websense Inc. The rise is second only to Egypt, said Patrik Runald, senior security research man-ager at Websense. “And Egypt obviously came from pretty much nowhere, so it is easy [for it] to have a higher percentage increase,” Mr. Runald said. “In all the other [western] countries like the U.S., France, the U.K. and Germany the number of servers are going down, whereas in Canada, for some reason, it is going up.” Canada now sits just behind the United States globally in the number of servers hosting phishing sites, ahead of Germany, U.K. and France. [...]

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