That is a scary thought certainly, and our authorities spends 10s billions of 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, concern, political pet initiatives, job employment, and an trustworthy evaluation in defending our army pc techniques.
There was a relatively 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 said;
“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 present information on the estimated losses from cyberattacks is wildly inaccurate. Analysts do not know what the issue’s financial impacts are; estimates of annual value vary from $560 million to $100 billion to $1 trillion, asks: “How can this be? How will you have estimates of the identical downside ranging throughout three orders of magnitude?”
Properly, there are most likely a number of explanation why these estimates are so giant, and a part of the issue is that not everybody reviews the entire hacking or cyber crime, as a result of they do not wish to admit that their IT techniques are lower than absolutely safe. After all they do need to by legislation warn prospects when their information has been breached, or now shareholders as properly, if something that has occurred, or if a major quantity of pertinent information has been stolen.