Economic Cost of Conficker at $9.1 Billion?
I wonder how they arrived at this $9.1 billion figure. I mean, I understand the wasted time and resources thing but how do you get to a precise $9.1B? I wonder if they tabulated the cost of this study into the total or how much time was wasted sitting around on April 1st waiting for something to happen? Never mind, I can see how they arrived at that number now.
I wonder how they arrived at this $9.1 billion figure. I mean, I understand the wasted time and resources thing but how do you get to a precise $9.1B? I wonder if they tabulated the cost of this study into the total or how much time was wasted sitting around on April 1st waiting for something to happen? Never mind, I can see how they arrived at that number now.
Any analysis of the Conficker worm's impact must also factor in the—wasted—time, resources, and energies of the cyber-community, governments, companies and individuals. Extrapolating out from studies on the average cost of similar past attacks, the total economic cost of this worm (including the cost of efforts to combat the worm, the cost of purchasing counter-measure software) could be as high as $9.1 billion.