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A new study of 45 U.S. organizations found that cyber crime — including Web attacks, malicious code, and rogue insiders — costs each one of them $3.8 million per year, on average, and results in about one successful attack each week. “First Annual Cost of Cyber Crime Study,” conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by [...]

The average cost to an organization of a data breach in the United States is higher than in four other countries where data-breach costs were compared, specifically Australia, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, according to a Ponemon Institute report published Wednesday. The average cost of a data breach in the United States in 2009 [...]

IT professionals are finding it harder than ever to set up access controls for network resources and applications used by organization employees, and cloud computing is only adding to their woes, a survey of 728 IT practitioners finds. Endpoint security gets complicated [ Keep up on the day's tech news headlines with InfoWorld's Today's Headlines: [...]