95 percent of Department of Defense electronic communications are carried over commercial networks (Aegis Research Corporation)... DOD networks experienced 18,433 electronic intrusions in 1999, triple the number of the previous year (Defense Information Systems Agency)... More than 17 million people in the United States have the skills required to commit some form of ecrime (Interpol)... Almost 10 percent of the 393 billion email messages sent in the US last year were spam (eMarketer)... 60 percent of American adults consider email a social activity, and 76 percent believe proper netiquette is as important as good table manners (AmericanGreetings.com)... US sales of personal digital devices - including cell phones, MP3 players, cameras, and portable computers - topped $7.3 billion last year and will continue to grow by 22 percent annually through 2005 (Strategy Analytics)... Online prescription sales in the US will reach $1 billion by 2002, compared with $33 million in 1999 (Jupiter Communications)... Within four years, health care ecommerce will be a $370 billion industry, 60 percent comprising insurance claims (Forrester Research)... 988 mergers and acquisitions were completed in the digital media industry in 1999, a 190 percent increase over the previous year (Broadview International)
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