Excerpt from an article about businesses being cyber attcked…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nearly nine out of 10 U.S. businesses suffered from a computer virus, spyware or other online attack in 2004 or 2005 despite widespread use of security software, according to an
FBI survey released on Thursday.Online attacks common for business, FBI says – Yahoo! News
Those attacks inflicted average damages of $24,000 on businesses and other institutions even as antivirus software security tools have become standard, the survey found.Though 98 percent of respondents said they used antivirus software, nearly 84 percent said they had suffered a virus attack in the 12-month period covered by the survey.
Three-quarters said they employed anti-spyware tools, but 80 percent said they had dealt with a spyware attack.
Other types of security problems, such as network sabotage or unauthorized pornography, were less common and less costly.
Some 44 percent of attacks came from within the organization, the survey found.
