# How Big is the Threat?

## "Internet Scanner finds your network security holes
before the hackers do."

- FBI estimates $7.5 billion annual loss to electronic attack
- US Department of Defense report found 88% of their computers are penetrable. In 96% of the cases where the hackers got in, their intrusions went undetected.
- In 1993, CERT found a 73% increase in security breaks
- "The security of information systems and networks is the major security challenge of this decade and possibly the next century", Scott Charney, Chief, Computer Crimes Unit, US Department of Justice
- "Russian computer hacker successfully breached a large number of Citicorp corporate accounts, stealing $400,000 and illegally transferring an additional $11.6 million…", Wall Street Journal, August 21, 1995
- According to Dataquest, security remains the number one concern of organizations connecting to the Internet
- In April of 1995, Satan is freely distributed on the Internet