Cyber attacks cost businesses an 'average of £1.2 million' a year

Cyber attacks, such as spam emails and computer hacking, cost businesses around the world during 2009 an average of £1.2 million, according to new research. Forty-three per cent of the 2,100 businesses surveyed, as part of computer security firm Symantec's 'State of the Enterprise Security Report', all lost confidential or proprietary data during 2009. The report, which was published today, also found that 75 per cent of the businesses polled all experienced some type of cyber crime in the last 12 months.