RE: [gnso-ff-pdp-may08] Cost of attacks (and proportion attributable to Fast Flux)

["Mike O'Connor" <mike@xxxxxxxxxx>]

These are good!

I want more!

I'm building a story-line in my head, and the more datapoints the 
better.  Other folks?  Any additional studies, datapoints, harm-types??
m


At 01:08 PM 7/30/2008, Joe St Sauver wrote:
> #Questions;
> #
> #-- Are there other cost numbers that we could use to express the
> #financial size of the *overall* problem?  (Dave pointed out that it's
> #not just phishing, and it's not just outright financial losses that
> #we should include, so let's expand on this a bit)
>
> The quoted estimated $3.2 billion in phishing losses, while large, is
> dwarfed by losses in other sectors.
>
> For example:
>
> -- the Business Software Alliance estimates losses due to software piracy at
>    $48 billion in 2007 (see
>    global.bsa.org/idcglobalstudy2007/studies/2007_global_piracy_study.pdf )
>
> -- The World Health Organization notes that "counterfeit drug sales
>    will reach US$75 billion globally in 2010, an increase of more than
>    90% from 2005." and "Medicines purchased over the Internet from sites
>    that conceal their physical address are counterfeit in over 50% of cases."
>    http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs275/en/
>
> -- The OECD estimated that international trade in counterfeit or pirated
>    good totaled US$200 billion in 2005 (see
>    www.oecd.org/document/50/0,3343,en_2649_34173_39542514_1_1_1_1,00.html
>    -- if you don't have free access to the full report and don't want to
>    buy a copy for $86, see http://www.ddmcd.com/managing-technology/oecd-publ
>    ishes-report-on-international-counterfeiting-and-pi.html (URL wrapped)
>    for a summary. Some estimates are even higher yet (e.g., see
>
> http://www.comptroller.nyc.gov/bureaus/bud/04reports/Bootleg-Billions.pdf )
>
> And that only touches the surface. For example, I've seen fastflux used in
> conjunction with online casinos, which are illegal in the United States. A
> *single* online gambling operation did $3.3 billion in wagers over a 28
> month period; see www.queensda.org/pressreleases/2006/november/11-15-2006.pdf
> but of course there are many, many more.
>
> And then there's the non-monetary costs of things such as child exploitation,
> which I hope do not get ignored simply because that particular 
> misery can't be
> financially quantified.
>
> Regards,
>
> Joe
>
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