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<b>Online Exclusive:</b> Corporate Breaches May Be Down, But Costs Per Breach Are Rising

By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
October 25, 2006

Companies are still struggling with electronic crimes, but reporting some progress, according to a new survey released this week by The Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, U.S. Secret Service, CSO Magazine, and Microsoft. The third annual 'E-Crime Watch Survey' covered the period July 2005 through June 2006, and it asked about an extensive range of security problems, including: theft of intellectual property and proprietary information; denial of service attacks; worms and other malicious code; phishing; spam; Web site defacement; spyware; and theft of consumer records.

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