Cyber-attacks, Definitely one of the worst part of technology today, Many people believe that most of these attacks are usually initiated from China and Russia but recently survey of 600 I.T executives which was released by McAfee has shown a great concern by Global companies claiming that the number of cyberattacks initiated from the United States is greater than the attacks initiated from China or Russia.
According to their survey, Massive 36 percent of the professionals voted that highly-ranked network attacks are initiated from United States itself, In comparison with their “biggest concerns,” 33 percent of them were concerned about China based attacks. Russia came at a distant third position, getting only 12 percent votes from the polled rating. Another thing that was highlighted in the survey that the worries about potential attackers from many different countries were different for each industrial sector: The Government agencies shown their worries about attacks from China as compared to the executives from the power industry, who shown their concerns about attacks initiated from Russia.
The report estimated: $6.3 million a day loss to companies which become victim of network attacks.
The report also states that cybercrime has badly damaged the infrastructure of the firms, with and staggering one-in-five companies are reporting the intrusion attempts or other severe threats of cyberattack within the past couple of years.
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