McAfee Threats Report: Second Quarter 2009 – Page 4 New Zombies We observed almost fourteen million new zombies this quarter. That’s another record, and it broke the record set in the last quarter, in which we saw nearly twelve million new zombies come into service. That’s an increase of more than 150,000 new zombies every day, systems that have the potential to send spam and other malicious items to your computer. With this type of zombie-creation trend in motion, we can easily predict that spam volumes will rise in the next quarter. see full report...
The Business Impact of Data Breach - Publication by Ponemon Institute LLC – Page 2 Data breaches are most likely to be caused by missing laptops, PDAs and memory sticks as well as employee negligence. Bar Chart 2 shows that 42% of respondents place the blame on lost or stolen equipment followed by negligent employees, temporary employees or contractors (16%) and negligent third parties, including vendors and outsourcers (10%). The most unlikely causes include: malicious employees, temporary employees or contractors; criminal activity, IT mishaps or glitches and missing backup media. see full report...
PR Newswire - 65 Percent of Americans Spend More Time with Their Computer than Their Spouse Like any relationship, the test comes not when things are going well but when times are tough. And unfortunately in the case of their computers, things aren't going so well for Americans(2).
The average consumer has experienced computer troubles eight times - about every four months - over the last three years.
The average American is wasting 12 hours per month - the equivalent of half a weekend - due to problems with their home computer.
A majority of Americans (52%) describe their most recent experience with a computer problem as one of anger, sadness or alienation.
Websense Security Labs: State of Internet Security, Q1 – Q2, 2009
Websense ThreatSeeker Network Research Highlights, Q1 – Q2 2009
Web Security
• Websense Security Labs identified a 233 percent growth in the number of malicious Web sites in the last six monthsand a 671 percent growth during the last year.
• 77 percent of Web sites with malicious code are legitimate sites that have been compromised. This remains unchanged from the last six-month period.
• 61 percent of the top 100 sites either hosted malicious content or contained a masked redirect to lure unsuspecting victims from legitimate sites to malicious sites.
• 95 percent of user-generated comments to blogs, chat rooms and message boards are spam or malicious.
• 50 percent of Web pages linked to Web sites categorized as “Sex” also served malicious content.
• 69 percent of all Web pages with any objectionable content (e.g. Sex, Adult Content, Gambling, Drugs) also had at least one malicious link.
• 78 percent of new Web pages discovered in the first half of 2009 with any objectionable content had at least one malicious link. see full report...
Symantec Global Internet Security Threat Report – Page 10 - Table 1. Goods and services available for sale on underground economy servers. see full report...
Symantec Global Internet Security Threat Report – Page 10 - Table 1. Goods and services available for sale on underground economy servers. see full report...
