Quotes form "Black code" and "Where good ideas come from"
Quotes from the book Black code - Ronald J. Deibert Hiring a DDOS attack, $30-$70 a day; backing a Facebook or Twitter account, $130; hacking a Gmail account, $162; scans of legitimate passports, $5 each. Around globe botnets can be rented cheap online from public websites for weeks, days, even hours. The security firm McAfee estimates that they receive 80,000 new malicious software samples a day. Want a fresh exploit that will target Adobe ? That will cost anywhere from $5,000 to $30,000. Mac OS X ? $20,000 to $50,000. Android ? $30,000 to $60,000. One exploit targeting Apple's iOS system was reportedly sold to a U.S. agency for $250,000. DDOS outage would cause substantial financial firms estimating losses at more than $10,000 per hour, and 67 percent of retailers at $1000,000 per hour. Beyond financial losses, companies also reported fears of damage to brand reputation. Quotes from "where good ideas come from - Steve Johnson" All other things being equal, a breakthroug...