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China driving development of 'Internet of Things': report
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 Paris (AFP) June 09, 2014


Cybercrime cuts deep in global economy: study
Washington (AFP) June 09, 2014 - Cybercrime has grown into a global industry worth around half a trillion dollars, with no sign of slowing, a research report said Monday.

The report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies with security firm McAfee estimated the global economic cost of cyberattacks at $445 billion, account ting for the loss of 350,000 jobs in the United States and Europe.

"Cybercrime is a growth industry. The returns are great, and the risks are low," the report said.

The study gave a range of $375 billion to $575 billion in losses, but the authors said even these figures were conservative in the face of limited data from many parts of the world.

"The costs of cybercrime is going to continue to go up, barring a miracle," said Stewart Baker, a former Homeland Security official and co-author of the study.

James Lewis, a CSIS fellow and co-author, said the estimates are more conservative than some previous research pegging the cost at $1 trillion, but acknowledged difficulty in collecting data.

"Maybe half of the companies that get hacked don't tell the local police," Lewis said at a forum unveiling the study.

"Many governments don't produce any data at all."

The authors said they believe their economic models produce a good estimate of economic losses but that some things are difficult to measure.

Many of the losses stem from theft of secret business information, or other forms of intellectual property.

Lewis said that in some cases, "someone might steal a billion dollars worth of intellectual property but is only able to monetize 10 percent of that."

Yet the report called cybercrime "a tax on innovation" because it reduces the return for new inventions or software, and may discourage some from investing or putting information online or in the cloud.

The researchers said cost of cybercrime also includes the impact of hundreds of millions of people having their personal information stolen -- some 40 million people in the US last year, 54 million in Turkey, 20 million in South Korea, 16 million in Germany, and more than 20 million in China, according to the report.

"One estimate puts the total (number of victims) at more than 800 million individual records in 2013," the report said.

"This alone could cost as much as $160 billion per year. Criminals still have difficulty turning stolen data into financial gain, but the constant stream of news contributes to a growing sense that cybercrime is out of control."

China is in the forefront of the development of an "Internet of Things", leading the way with the number of machine-to-machine connections and opening a new market for operators, a study showed Monday.

In the past four years the number of machine-to-machine connections via mobile networks has grown by 35 percent annually and now accounts for more than 3 percent of total mobile connections, according to the GSMA association of mobile operators.

China has lead the way and accounts for 40 percent of the total mobile machine-to-machine connections, ahead of the United States and Japan combined.

Hooking up machines via mobile networks has already allowed for deployment of systems which allow for real-time monitoring of the location of buses, systems which direct drivers to free parking spots, and energy meters which report consumption automatically.

Regulatory uncertainty has held back the deployment of machine-to-machine applications in some countries, while in China support from the government which has made development an "Internet of Things" a top priority has led to the market quickly reaching a critical mass, said the GSMA.

"A rapidly developing and urbanising country, China is looking to use information and communications technologies to make its fast expanding cities smarter and enable a better quality of life for their citizens," said the report.

The Chinese government plans to invest more than $600 billion (440 billion euros) in the sector through 2020, it added.

China's three mobile operators see the rapid growth in the segment continuing and are looking at rolling out applications in the agriculture, healthcare, automotive, retail and consumer electronics sectors.

With growth in traditional voice subscribers having slowed in many developed countries, mobile operators have been looking at developing other services to expand their businesses.

The GSMA study found that China's three mobile operators were using machine-to-machine technology to develop new revenue streams and move up the value chain as they are usually developing the systems in cooperation with clients instead of just selling connectivity.

The GSMA expects the number of mobile machine-to-machine connections to hit 242 million by the end of this year, which excludes consumer electronic devices using mobile networks like smartphones, tablets, and e-readers.

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