Funded by the Australian High Tech Crime Centre, this research identifies the spread of mobile and wireless technologies in all aspects of business and private life, but shows the increased risk of infection for both providers and users. Safe and secure use will only come with understanding of the risk factors associated with this use.

The Insurance Council of Australia estimates that cyber-crime costs companies worldwide around about $3 trillion each year, with around 67 per cent of computer users affected in some way. The areas of greatest impact are laptop theft, data or network sabotage, virus and Trojan infection, computer fraud, denial of service attacks and excessive network resource...