The number of cyber crimes increases as the use of mobile devices becomes more popular. The internet can now be accessed through smartphones and other digital devices by almost everyone. Given this worsening scenario, law enforcement agencies are looking for innovative ways to combat these criminals. Cyber crime cannot be counteracted by the usual strategies. It requires a good deal of ingenuity, with matching technology, in order to stand up effectively against these crooks.

In California, catching and prosecuting internet crooks is now being handled by the new, special eCrime Unit. This team is comprised of 20 attorneys and investigators, and was created by the State Attorney General. Innovative techniques will be used in order to target criminal activities like email scams, piracy, child pornography, online fraud, and many others. Up to this date, many people have been victimized, both online and offline.

In the IT world, it is now time to say goodbye to 2011 and to welcome the new year of 2012. There were many happenings within the past year, and there are high hopes that the coming year will produce even better changes. Many technological changes have to be expected, and analysts foresee some pictures of these from their own point of view. Within the next year, major changes will be driven by these three: big data & analytics, security and cloud computing.

The role of social media in big data and analytics is expected to grow and expand. Due to new data sources, it is very possible that more organizations will use these tools in order to make transformations. The end result for doing all these would be the realization of more significant benefits coming out of social networking. There was a tremendous growth in the number of organizations using the social media command center in the year 2011. The same or even more is expected to happen in 2012. This is proof that the common use of marketing service agencies is gradually being replaced by the more advanced and more efficient social media.