-----Original Message----- From: Brian Randell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:01:59 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = [EMAIL PROTECTED] PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/~brian.randell/ ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
