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Re: From Russia with malice (Two messages)
From: InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:46:32 -0600 (CST)
Forwarded from: GertJan Hagenaars <isn () hagenaars com> Apparently, InfoSec News wrote: % Forwarded from: Thor <thor () hammerofgod com> % % > Kaspersky's figures are backed by estimates from the Ukraine-based % > Computer Crime Research Centre which says the total amount of % > financial losses worldwide resulting from cybercrime exceeded $411bn % > at the end of last year. % % 411 billion in *losses*?? Does anyone else have issues with this % figure? To give some perspective, that is more than the reported 2003 % earnings of Citigroup, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan % Stanley, Wells Fargo, Prudential Financial, Merrill Lynch, American % Express, Bank One Corp, Hartford Financial, and US Bancorp all % *COMBINED* with about 10 billion to spare. % % T http://www.ebcvg.com/press.php?id=679 The top five malware families of all time including hybrids are: 1. MyDoom; 2. Netsky; 3. SoBig; 4. Klez; and 5. Sasser. The total economic damage worldwide from malware proliferation - with an additional 480 new species in 2004 alone - is now estimated to lie between $166bn and $202bn for 2004 by the mi2g Intelligence Unit. With an installed base of around 600 million Windows based computers worldwide, this works out roughly as average damage per installed machine of between $277 and $336. These numbers are too close for comfort. Two independant sources, so it must be true. Unless of course one copied and expanded on the acid-enhanced data dreams of the other... (All hype can eventually be traced back to mi2g.) CHeers, GertJan. -- +++++++++++++ -------- +++++ --- ++ - +0+ + ++ +++ +++++ ++++++++ +++++++++++++ sed '/^[when][coders]/!d G.J.W. Hagenaars -- gj at hagenaars dot com /^...[discover].$/d Remembering Mike Carty 1968-1994 /^..[real].[code]$/!d UltrixIrixAIXHPUXSunOSLinuxBSD, nothing but nix ' /usr/dict/words I'm Dutch, what's _your_ excuse? -=- Forwarded from: Jason Scott <jason () textfiles com> One of my favorite fudging of numbers during the Mitnick trial was that not only did his damages include the cost of developing Solaris in its entirety, it included the cost of building the buildings the developers were housed in. See, that's some tasty fudge. On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, InfoSec News wrote:
Forwarded from: Thor <thor () hammerofgod com>Kaspersky's figures are backed by estimates from the Ukraine-based Computer Crime Research Centre which says the total amount of financial losses worldwide resulting from cybercrime exceeded $411bn at the end of last year.411 billion in *losses*?? Does anyone else have issues with this figure? To give some perspective, that is more than the reported 2003 earnings of Citigroup, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Prudential Financial, Merrill Lynch, American Express, Bank One Corp, Hartford Financial, and US Bancorp all *COMBINED* with about 10 billion to spare. T
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