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Dealing with viruses, spyware, PC theft and other computer-related crimes costs U.S. businesses a staggering $67.2 billion a year, according to the FBI. 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."This would be 2.8 million U.S. organizations experiencing at least one computer security incident," according to the 2005 FBI Computer Crime Survey. "With each of these 2.8 million organizations incurring a $24,000 average loss, this would total $67.2 billion per year." By comparison, telecommunication fraud losses are about only $1 billion a year, according to the U.S. Secret Service. Also, the overall cost to Americans of identity fraud reached $52.6 billion in 2004, according to Javelin Strategy & Research. Other surveys have attempted to put a dollar amount on cybersecurity damages in the past, but the FBI believes its estimate is the most accurate because of the large number of respondents, said Bruce Verduyn, the special agent who managed the survey project. "The data set is three or four times larger than in past surveys," he said. "It is obviously a staggering number, but that is the reality of what we see."... continued.....
among the key findings of the FBI survey :
Frequency of attacks. Nearly nine out of 10 organizations experienced computer security incidents in a year's time; 20% of them indicated they had experienced 20 or more attacks.Types of attacks. Viruses (83.7%) and spyware (79.5%) headed the list. More than one in five organizations said they experienced port scans and network or data sabotage. Financial impact. Over 64% of the respondents incurred a loss. Viruses and worms cost the most, accounting for $12 million of the $32 million in total losses. Sources of the attacks. They came from 36 different countries. The U.S. (26.1%) and China (23.9%) were the source of over half of the intrusion attempts, though masking technologies make it difficult to get an accurate reading. Defenses. Most said they installed new security updates and software following incidents, but advanced security techniques such as biometrics (4%) and smart cards (7%) were used infrequently. In addition, 44% reported intrusions from within their own organizations, suggesting the need for strong internal controls. Reporting. Just 9% said they reported incidents to law enforcement, believing the infractions were not illegal or that there was little law enforcement could or would do. Of those reporting, however, 91% were satisfied with law enforcement's response. And 81% said they'd report future incidents to the FBI or other law enforcement agencies. Many also said they were unaware of InfraGard, a joint FBI/private sector initiative that battles computer crimes and other threats through information sharing.

The Anfield club were the supreme force both home and abroad during that period as they collected numerous Championships, League Cups and European Cups, plus the League and FA Cup Double in May 1986.Fergie's arrival at Old Trafford in November 1986 was the prelude to the most successful period in United's history, as they took over the Liverpool mantle. "I knew what I had to do when I first arrived here," recalled Fergie. "The challenge was Liverpool and we did it."The Liverpool game is the one I look forward to the most. It reflects to me the very reason for being here."Maybe players and fans and indeed Liverpool themselves look at it differently, but for me it's got special significance."

"This game is crying out for the return of Smith and Brown. Without them we looked anaemic in the derby and a recall on Sunday will add some steel to the side. Anyone else remember Smith's performances against Chelsea and Spurs? He's definitely the man for big games."

Hello guys.

It was after some tedious work that i was able to figure out my username - i would say that the effort is worth it.After locating my username and login in back to blogger made me feel so much differently, the list of contributors the different posts they made, it has come a long way, with so many users and blogs.

If i remember correctly we created this somewhere back in 2001 - I remember I used a lousy dial up connection and spent 2 hours on reading and filling the online form, on the other end Ashraf was messing with some IRC bots and following :)

I remember a time when only this blog was the most updated blog on blogger.com - and it was alyways on the list ;).That ofcourse was the effort of all those contributors you see in there.

During those time - it was very hard to host a blog on blogspot.com, it had some ads and no one wanted to have ads on thier blogs, it had connetivity issues and there were outages very often. Everyone was looking into getting personal hosting and not interested on blogspot at all.

The same way we also moved squidism blog from blogspot to a local web server at Dhivehinet - with the help of Nattey ( Nattey was the pioneer of blogging in maldives ;) he was the first person to ever introduce it to me).

Not to also mention that back then DhivehiNet was a very small project run by only two people and you will experience some technical difficulties due to that - Dhivehinet did not have the flexibilies you see on commercial web hosting providers available on the Internet at that time.

After moving back to a local web server it was running smoothly we had allowed post and publish function for any contributor - there were funny posts, irritating post, totally invalid posts and those huge "unrelated" images, dont know what they meant - but it was fun.

The whole thing ran for something like 02 years, and blogger.com started having problems - back then blogger.com was run by a single guy.We couldnt login to blogger.com - and when we could we were not able to do any posts, and when the posts went through it didnt publish to our local web server.

After a week or so of unstable blogger.com - we saw that the guy who then ran blogger went bankcrupt; his hosting provider changed and that was the reason of unstable service. He had asked for every blogger.com user to contribute so that he could keep on running the service and pay for his expensive provider. There were some posts by him saying that he might stop blogger.com for good.

I think very few ppl help him back then, i didnt follow the news later on.

Later on also we didnt see a very stable blogger.com as we so before, we had problems publishing - Squidism then went dark. Some contributors used to ask me what happend. Well to be honest I later on wasnt following much on blogger.com

I believe blogger.com had gone a logn way and through lot of changes - It had become one of the most growing thing on the Internet recently.It had moved from a single man's thing to a well supported phenomenon, owned by google now.

I hope that blogger.com stays ONLINE and faciliate the bloggers to keep on blogging.
Ashraf should be awarded the "man of blogging, in Male" cox he kept on blogging on and on ;)

A supportive "Lazy" blogger. Amen to you PYRA & Evan William the real man behind Blogger.

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