FACTOID.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)

EDN, March, 2001 by Granville, Fran

DILBERT IDC forecasts that the number of students taking online courses will reach 2.2 million in 2002--up from 710,000 in 1998. Organizations that were the victims of security attacks via the Internet increased from 38% in 1996 to 70% so far in 2001, according to a survey by the Computer Security Institute.

Full-time engineering students enrolled in US colleges and universities in the fall of 1999 was 323,713--a 1.8% decrease from 1998, according to a report from the Engineering Workforce Commission. Of Korean Internet users, 65% visited a game Web site in January 2001--the highest rate in Asia, according to NetValue. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]