Computer crime and compromised commerce
Matthew James, Brian E. Murray, Parliamentary Library · 2003
The Insurance Council of Australia estimates that cyber-crime costs companies worldwide around about $3 trillion each year, with around 67 per cent of computer users affected in some way. The areas of greatest impact are laptop theft, data or network sabotage, virus and Trojan infection, computer fraud, denial of service attacks and excessive network resource consumption through external scams. This Research Note provides an overview of the issues, with a focus on fraud via 'spam'.