Online crime more prevalent than ever in the UAE

UAE residents are making themselves vulnerable online by using their smartphones. A study by anti-virus software company Norton shows that two million people in the Emirates have been victims of Internet crime in the past year. Some 61% of UAE consumers surveyed in the study have been a victim of an online attack, and almost half experienced cyber crime in the last year. Experts say that over three quarters of people living in the Emirates do not have security software installed on their smartphone, and what’s more, password sharing is a common practice.