At least 57 negative impacts from cyber-attacks

The researchers, from Kent's School of Computing and

the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, set out to define and codify the different ways in which the various cyber-incidents being witnessed today can have negative outcomes.

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They also considered how these outcomes, or harms, can spread as time passes. The hope is that this will help to improve the understanding of the multiple harms which cyber-attacks can have, for the public, government, and other academic disciplines.

Overall the researchers identified five key themes under which the impact—referred to in the article as a cyber-harm—from a cyber-attack can be classified:

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