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Article: Month in review.
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- Information Age (London, UK)
- Article date:
- December 10, 2004
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Up to 7,000 companies worldwide are paying organised criminals 'protection money' to ensure their corporate web sites are not compromised, claimed the SANS Institute, the US independent security organisation. An average of $40,000 is being paid to stop attackers revealing customers' personal data or to prevent denial of service attacks.
Sainsbury's reported its first-ever loss and pointed to a failed supply chain management project that left its shelves bare as the culprit. The supermarket chain is to write off [pounds sterling]140 million in IT assets and a further [pounds sterling]120 million spent on automated distribution after a botched overhaul of its ...