[IP] Cyber-crime costs business billions

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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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
....
>  "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
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