The eighth annual IT crime survey by the Computer Security Institute of San Francisco and that city's FBI's computer intrusion squad shows a dramatic drop in financial losses caused by computer attacks. And a former chief of the FBI's cybercrime squad . . .
The eighth annual IT crime survey by the Computer Security Institute of San Francisco and that city's FBI's computer intrusion squad shows a dramatic drop in financial losses caused by computer attacks. And a former chief of the FBI's cybercrime squad said government systems showed significant improvements. The number of significant security incidents appears to have leveled off since last year, according to the survey, which produces some of the most widely quoted numbers about the state of IT security.

But CSI editorial director Robert Richardson cautioned against reading too much into the apparent good news. "The survey raises a lot of questions it doesn't answer," Richardson said.

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