单选题
Cyber crime is likely to bring about as much
destruction as the credit crisis in the coming years if international regulation
is not improved, some of the world's top crime experts said. Damage caused by
cyber crime is estimated at $100 billion annually, said Kilian Strauss, of the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)."These criminals
outsmart us ten, or a hundred to one," Strauss told Reuters, adding more
Internet experts were needed to investigate and tackle cyber crime.
Criminal organizations are exploiting a regulatory vacuum to commit
Internet crimes such as computer spying, money-laundering and theft of personal
information, and the scope for damage is vast, experts told a European Economic
Crime conference in Frankfurt. "We need multilateral understanding, account and
oversight to avoid, in the years to come, a cyber crisis equivalent to the
current financial crisis," Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of the United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, said. Internet crime is also
a threat to national security, they said. Several countries, including the
United States, have voiced concern over some hackers' abilities to
electronically spy on them and disrupt computer networks. Calls
for greater regulation of the Internet come at a time of regulatory renaissance,
with policymakers looking to support the powers of financial sector watchdogs in
the wake of the global financial crisis. "Because of the transnational nature of
identity-related crime, and especially of cyber-crime, if we do not tackle the
crime everywhere we will not solve it anywhere," Costa said.
The President of Interpol, Khoo Boon Hui, said increasingly highly technological
gangs from Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa were coming up with ever more
sophisticated ways of {{U}}swindling{{/U}} money from vulnerable people. He also
said there was a trend of company bosses being bribed by fraudsters claiming to
have guilty evidence about their firms. Strauss, who works as
Senior Program Officer at the Office of the Coordinator of OSCE Economic and
Environmental activities, said Internet crime watchdogs could learn a lot from
criminals willing to switch sides.
单选题
The main idea of the passage is that ______.
A. cyber crime is as destructive as the credit crisis in the coming
years
B. damage caused by cyber-crime is very serious and will get worse
C. to fight cyber crime requires enhanced international regulation
D. international organizations should be established to crush
cyber-crime
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】
单选题
According to Kilian Strauss,______.
A. cyber criminals are 10 or 100 times smarter than Internet experts
B. Internet experts are 10 or 100 times smarter than cyber criminals
C. as cyber criminals are very smart, more experts am needed to light
against them
D. the investigation of the cyber crime takes time and money
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】
单选题
Criminal organizations can commit internet crimes because ______.
A. there is no effective regulation
B. they can exploit the present regulations
C. no country has paid enough attention to them
D. the current financial crisis has put the authorities at a loss
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】
单选题
To win the war against cyber crime,______.
A. policymakers should support their governments financially
B. each country should solve its own problems effectively
C. United States should play a very important role
D. international cooperation is crucial
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】
单选题
The underlined word {{U}}swindling{{/U}} (in the 5th paragraph)
is closest in meaning to "______".
A. bribing
B. cheating
C. corrupting
D. robbing
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】
单选题
Straus believes that ______.
A. Internet security experts can learn a lot from cyber criminals
B. if cyber criminals will cooperate with the police, they can be
helpful
C. Internet crime watchdogs will make cyber criminals shift grounds
D. international organizations can solve the problems of cyber
crime