[Via Slashdot] Article de la CNN describint el 2005 com un mail any per a la seguretat informàtica: Record bad year for computer security. Aquest article es basa en un informe del Departament del Tresor dels Estats Units on s'estima que els delictes informàtics han superat per primera vegada el volum que representa el món de la droga.
Over 130 major intrusions exposed more than 55 million Americans to the growing variety of fraud as personal data like Social Security and credit card numbers were left unprotected, according to USA Today.
The Treasury Department says that cyber crime has now outgrown illegal drug sales in annual proceeds, netting an estimated $105 billion in 2004, the report said.