75% of Enterprises Have Suffered Cyber Attacks, Costing $2M+ On Average

coomaria writes "OK, even allowing for the fact this comes from a newly published study (PDF) from a security company, that's still one heck of a statistic. The fact that it's Symantec, and so has access to perhaps more enterprises than most, makes it a double-heck with knobs on. Or how about this one for size: 'every enterprise, yes, 100 percent, experienced cyber losses in 2009.'"

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Hardly

[RMH101]

Aw, c'mon. We've not spent nearly $2M on Symantec licences here, and I'd hardly call their sales pitch a cyber attack.

I'm here all week, try the veal

"a double-heck with knobs on"

[circletimessquare]

i'm not familiar with that metric. could you convert that into libraries of congress?

Re:symantec

[Coopjust]

I think Symantec should detect their own product as Trojan.Symantec.

Seriously, Symantec and McAfee applications are more ill behaved with system resources than most viruses.

Which Enterprises are being counted?

[Colonel Korn]

By my count (of Wikipedia), there are 2 Enterprises from the Continental Navy, 6 from the US Navy, 1 balloon, 1 space shuttle, 1 training ship, and 8 starships that are worth counting, for a total of 19 Enterprises. If 75% have suffered major cyber attacks and we round down, we have 14 cyber-victims.

Here's where it gets weird. Clearly the 8 starships are attackable in the computerized sense. That leaves us with 6 other hackable Enterprises. Most likely 1 is the space shuttle, 1 is the training vessel, and 1 is the contemporary air craft carrier. But that means 3 more Enterprises were cyber-violated out of a pool containing a balloon used during the Civil War and 5 US Navy ships decommissioned between 1823 and 1947.

This seems to be proof of a pre-modern technological underground. Or time travel.