On Thu, 25 May 2006 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Thu, 25 May 2006 10:17:56 CDT, Gadi Evron said:
I'm just happy there are communities such as NANOG out there, but when it comes down to it, the Good online is based on good faith. The Bad is based on cold Cash. Some lose as much as a million dollars a day on phishing, as an example.
Citation on the $1M/day, please? (I'm sure the *aggregate* take is well over that, but what *single entity* is seeing that magnitude losses?)
You can quote me. Phishing in the US is by far lkess sophisticated than, for example, in Europe. There the banks are a bit more sophisticated as well in defensive tech. I hate for this to be a quote by me, but Super Worms which steal credit card, account data, login info. etc. for banks, credit card companies and ecommerce sites online number at the millions a day. Including repeat customers. As to signle banks, forget my numbers for a second, I am willing to accept yours for the sake of argument (we can argue digits over the phone). A million in losses a day is enough. Gadi.