[Gllug] The total cost of ownership to Ealing Council

[JLMS]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Chris Bell<chrisbell at 3966.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>   Ealing council have put the direct plus indirect cost of a single virus
> attack to their IT system at 500,000. It was introduced via a memory stick.
>

Seems a bit OTT to me.

I did a quick calculation recently about a very bad incident I
witnessed some time ago, and it was way below that, one scale of
magnitude lower, but since "indirect" may mean lots of things,
goodness knows how accurate the calculation is.
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