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FBI Says Computer Crime Costs Billions Every Year

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-a-pricy-meatball dept.

JamesAlfaro wrote to mention a C|Net article putting a pricetag on computer crime. From the article: "The FBI calculated the price tag by extrapolating results from a survey of 2,066 organizations. The survey, released Thursday, found that 1,324 respondents, or 64 percent, suffered a financial loss from computer security incidents over a 12-month period. The average cost per company was more than $24,000, with the total cost reaching $32 million for those surveyed. Often survey results can be skewed, because poll respondents are more likely to answer when they have experienced a problem. So, when extrapolating the survey results to estimate the national cost, the FBI reduced the estimated number of affected organizations from 64 percent to a more conservative 20 percent. "

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  1. I say by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    non-free software costs billions every year.

    --RMS

  2. FYI by argoff · · Score: -1, Troll

    The loss of online liberties to orwellian government costs society billions every year too.

  3. Microsoft Left Many Door Open... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    and now we've got lots of crooks twisting doorknobs. So whose fault is that? Can we sue Microsoft if a crook enters through a flaw that Microsoft created or refused to correct in a timely manner?

    Should we now hope that the FBI will arrest Microsoft developers who are sloppy in their coding practices? Little short of that would change the company's slack attitude toward security.

  4. I don't doubt it a bit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sony's criminals and their God damned root kits cost me $170.00. Too bad the FBI (Fucking Bureaucratic Idiots) won't do jack shit about it.

    The laws don't apply to corporations, they're above the law.

    Is there any way we can get our government back from the foreigners like Sony who have purchased it from the politicians? I mean, without bloodshed?

    -mcgrew
    (almost MRC="minute")