Akamai estimates the attack could have cost the customer $350,000 in lost revenues during the twenty-four hour period, had it not been prevented by Akamai.
He said such work was completed in as little time as possible in other countries such as Greece and the UK with a number of construction crews working in shifts over a twenty-four hour period.
But I have discovered that the new clock loses several minutes in every twenty-four hour period, reflecting, I'm afraid, its owner's skewed sense of time.
At the end of June, Kaspersky detected over five different variants within a twenty-four hour period. This is normally enough to signify a new epidemic, but its attacks are localised, in this case restricted mainly to Russia, and its tack of prevalence stopped it from even being in Kaspersky Lab's Top Twenty for June despite reported costs to individual users ranging from $30-$100.