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“Colleges Receive $10 Million Grant to Study Cyber Crime”
September 28, 2012  |  Catherine Groux, U.S. News University Connection

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Last year, the federal Internet Crime Complaint Center received more than 300,000 reports of cyber crime, as it watched Americans lose about $485.3 million to such attacks in 2011 alone. These figures show the rise of cyber crime throughout the nation and underline the need for the U.S. to find ways to prevent it.
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Networking researcher Vern Paxson leads ICSI’s share of the project, a collaboration with UC San Diego and George Mason University to study the role played by economics and social interactions in cybercrime