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Cyber-crime costs business billions
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:06:07 -0400
-----Original Message----- From: Brian Randell <Brian.Randell () newcastle ac uk> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:01:59 To:dave () farber net Subject: Cyber-crime costs business billions Hi Dave: This report, from today's Guardian newspaper, of a speech by the Head of the (UK) National Hi-Tech Crime Unit may be of interest for the updated estimates it gives of the costs of UK computer crime.
Cyber-crime costs business billions Rosie Cowan, crime correspondent Wednesday February 25, 2004 The Guardian
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"This research shows that some companies are suffering multi-million pound losses as a result of hi-tech crime. While it is too early to put an accurate figure on the total financial impact for UK business, all the indicators suggest we are talking about billions rather than millions."
Full story at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1155205,00.html cheers Brian -- School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = Brian.Randell () ncl ac uk PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/~brian.randell/ ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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