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	from Tony Bradley, CISSP-ISSAP I recently blogged on the site about an Information Week survey which claims that approximately 1-in-4 computer users will be compromised by some sort of virus, phishing scam, spyware or other attacks. It also claims that the United States has lost an estimated $7 billion in the past 2 years to these sorts of malicious computer attacks. You can check out the site and the link to the article for more about the survey. You can do your part to save $7 billion and not become a 1-in-4 statistic by reading the rest of this newsletter and visiting the site frequently to learn more.
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