That is a scary thought certainly, and our authorities spends 10s billions of {dollars} yearly securing its information facilities, and networks. The sum of money spent on IT safety in Washington DC is unbelievable, and a few of this is because of Lobbyists, worry, political pet initiatives, job employment, and an sincere evaluation in defending our army pc programs.
There was a fairly troubling piece within the Homeland Safety Online Information just lately titled; “Cybercrime statistics wildly inaccurate, says researcher” which was revealed on June 29, 2011 that acknowledged;
“A cybersecurity researcher questions statistics from authorities officers & IT sector as proof of the runaway results of hackers; Cormac Herley, of Microsoft analysis states the prevailing information on the estimated losses from cyberattacks is wildly inaccurate. Analysts don’t have any idea what the issue’s financial impacts are; estimates of annual price vary from $560 million to $100 billion to $1 trillion, asks: “How can this be? How are you going to have estimates of the identical drawback ranging throughout three orders of magnitude?”
Nicely, there are in all probability a number of the reason why these estimates are so giant, and a part of the issue is that not everybody experiences the entire hacking or cyber crime, as a result of they do not need to admit that their IT programs are lower than absolutely safe. After all they do should by legislation warn clients when their information has been breached, or now shareholders as nicely, if something that has occurred, or if a major quantity of pertinent information has been stolen.