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Riskiest US Cities for Cybercrime

Seattle is the most dangerous city in the U.S. when it comes to cybercrime, at least according to Symantec in a report issues in March 2010.

The Northwest sported two of the top 10, with Portland, Ore., ranked No. 10 in the list of the nation's 50 largest metro areas. Rounding out the first five were Boston, Washington D.C., San Francisco and Raleigh, N.C. Atlanta, Minneapolis, Denver, and Austin, Texas completed the top 10.

At the bottom, as in least dangerous, were Detroit (No. 50); El Paso, Texas (No. 49); and Memphis, Tenn. (No. 48).

The complete 50-city ranking can be downloaded from Symantec's Web site ( download PDF ). A more detailed description of the rating methodology and the scores for each city are available in 16-page report ( download PDF ).

Symantec also released a similar ranking for Canadian cities ( download PDF ), which puts Burlington, Ontario, at the top of the list and Longueuil, Quebec, at the bottom. Vancouver, British Columbia, the host of the 2010 Winter Olympics, was rated the fourth-most-dangerous city in Canada.