Abney & Associates News Articles: The true cost of
cybercrime
Net-Security.org
From a cybercrime perspective, the opportunities are boundless: Seemingly everything has a computer
in it, cars and pacemakers included. It’s almost certain that the...
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Abney & Associates News Articles: The true cost of
cybercrime
Net-Security.org
From a cybercrime perspective, the opportunities are boundless: Seemingly everything has a computer
in it, cars and pacemakers included. It’s almost certain that the sophistication of exploits and attacks will
increase, and that new exploit modes will surface with the ongoing computing and mobility revolution.
You might think it is a safe bet that the cost of cybercrime will grow year-over-year. When the Ponemon
Institute predicted in 2012 that the cost of cybercrime would decline, we were surprised - after all, every
indicator pointed toward the opposite. Then just recently, Ponemon released their 2013 “Cost of
Cybercrime Study,” which shows that they now project that the cost trends are indeed increasing- 26%
up in 2013 from the 2012 reported figures.
Certainly the landscape of cybercrime is broad, and as expected cybercrime has become much more
sophisticated. Techniques you might only consider in the real
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