Tag archive: viruses

In a yearly study conducted by the Ponemon Institute and funded by Hewlett-Packard, the median cost of dealing with prevention and the repercussions of cybercrime rose from $3.8 million a year in 2010 to $5.9 million a year in 2011. Over the 50 companies in the study, the range of costs varied from $1.5 million to $36.5 million per organization. Over the four-week period of the study, all the organizations put up with 72 successful attacks a… Read More

Apple fans get to have a little snicker here. One of the great strengths that Mac platforms offer over Windows PC platforms is their relatively infallibility when it comes to the dangers presented by the modern-day computer virus. It turns out that Google's Android OS is a likely target for malicious programmers as well. Publisher Myournet has been removed from the Android Market by Google, along with its 21 apps that were a malicious… Read More