Digital attacks caused an estimated $185 billion to $226 billion in economic damage in 2003, company says. Pentagon, NASA, other government agencies, universities and research labs had been under attack for nearly two years. Fast-propagating worm, Code Red, disrupted the U.S. financial sector a week after Sept. 11, disrupting ATM systems, airline reservation systems. Worms used to bombard the White House website in a denial-of-service attack-which was thwarted. One of every 17 e-mail addresses in a user’s computer was a copy of the worm.”]
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