25 May 2012

Cybercrime costs companies an average of $214,000 per attack


Successful cybercrime attacks cost businesses an average of $214,000 per incident, according to a survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of Check Point Software Technology..........

The survey of 2,618 C-level executives and IT security administrators in the US, UK, Germany, Hong Kong, and Brazil revealed that 65% of respondents who experienced targeted attacks said the hacker’s motivation was driven by financial fraud, followed by intent to disrupt business operations (45%) and stealing customer data (45%). Despite the surge in hacktivist attacks, only 5% of security attacks were estimated to have been driven by political or ideological agendas.....
There are people all along the eco-system that are making money from these attacks.........
Respondents reported SQL injections as the most serious security attacks experienced in the last two years, and around one-third of respondents said they experienced advanced persistent threats (35%), botnet infections (33%), and denial of service (DoS) attacks (32%)............

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