“Cybercrime cost businesses an estimated $1 trillion worldwide in 2008, and some security experts believe the threat may be so bad that we may need to re-think our entire approach to the Internet.”Via Bryon Acohido's blog, which comes recommended by SANS, which you don't see every day. Or ever, come to think of it. They have a good, free security "newsbites" email service, if that's your bag, baby.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Cybercrime: $1Trillion in 2008
Rather a lot, really. You can discount this by quite a bit and still have a big chunk of change. This is what's attracting talent to the Black Hat community, and why malware is so much better than it was even 3 or 4 years ago.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment