{"id":1885,"date":"2006-08-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/08\/17\/us-consumers-losing-billions-in-cyber-attacks\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:40:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:40:13","slug":"us-consumers-losing-billions-in-cyber-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/08\/17\/us-consumers-losing-billions-in-cyber-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"US consumers losing billions in cyber attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report out in the US has put a figure on losses suffered by Americans due to computer malware and cybercrime, and this figure is staggering.   According to Consumer Reports&#8217; State of the Internet survey, last year Americans lost $7.9 billion because of computer viruses, spyware and online scams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overall, a quarter of those surveyed suffered from a computer virus infection last year, with incidents being very costly for users, who had to spend an average of $109 remedying problems.<\/p>\n<p>Spyware, which is also a type of malware, also represented a major problem for American computer users, who had to shell out $2.6 billion to cover the costs of infecting their machines with it.<\/p>\n<p>Although total losses standing at $630 million were considerably lower than from malware, phishing has become a major problem for online users.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.viruslist.com\/en\/news?id=195063107<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4372,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/4372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}