Ponemon Institute survey of 56 corporate and governmental organizations finds average cybercrime cost was $8.9 million. Ponemon expanded the survey to other countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and Japan. Most of the cybercrime costs were related to mitigation of attacks caused by denial-of-service, malicious insider and Web-based attacks. U.S. companies cited information theft as accounting for 44% of total external costs of cybercrime. German companies were the least likely to experience malicious code and malicious code, the report says.”]