Increase in Number of Phishing Attacks
There has been a spurt in the number of Phishing messages sent in the past few months. The second half of 2007 saw a 5 percent increase in the number of phishing messages sent across the internet. The total number of phishing messages traced in this time was 207,547. This is equal to 1134 messages every single day!
04 Jun 08 | Security | Prevalence of Corporate Email Snooping
The practice of corporates snooping on their employees’ outbound emails as well as surveying newer modes of communication like blogs and message boards is alive and kicking. Here are a few numbers on the same:
44% of surveyed companies detected an email leak of confidential information in the past one year
41% of large companies surveyed employed staff to analyze content of outgoing mail
26% of companies terminated an employee in the past 12 months for violating email policies
11% of companies reprimanded employees for misuse of public space like blogs and message boards
14% of public companies noticed a leak of unannounced financial information by employees on message boards or blogs
22 May 08 | Security | Increase in Infected Web Pages On the Web
In 2007, approximately 5000 infected web pages were detected on an average in a day. This quarter, this number has soared to around 15,000 per day. That is one web page every five seconds. 79 percent of the infected web pages are hosted on legitimate websites.
24 Apr 08 | Security | How Big is Spam Mail?
For the first three months of 2008, 92.3 percent of all email sent globally was spam! In this time period, 23,300 web pages related to spam were created every day. USA and Russia are the top two spammers in the world. Russia’s contribution has doubled in this time period. Turkey now contributes to 5.9 percent of all spam.
19 Apr 08 | Security | How Many Viruses in All?
Symantec has recently detected the One Millionth Malware (Virus, Trojans, Worms…). The second half of 2007 saw Symantec identify 499,811 new forms of malware -136% over the numbers identified in the first half. The total number of malware that Symantec has now identified stands at 1,122,31; 711,912 of which are from 2007 alone!
13 Apr 08 | Security | Losses Due to Internet Crime
The Internet Crime Center is a collaboration between FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center of US. According to them, 207,000 complaints have been reported ranging from child pornography to auction fraud. These crimes had together cost $200 million in 2006 and $240 million in 2007. That is around $680 per complaint!
12 Apr 08 | Security | Top Ten Malware for March 2008
According to the BitDefender lab, Trojan Peed has the highest occurence over the past month, occuring more than 50 percent of the times. The top ten list -
1. Trojan.Peed.Gen : 55.58%
2. Win32.Netsky.P@mm : 5.97%
3. BehavesLike:Trojan.ShellHook : 2.07%
4. Win32.NetSky.D@mm : 1.76%
5. Win32.Netsky.AA@mm : 1.54%
6. Win32.Nyxem.E@mm : 1.22%
7. Win32.Netsky.B@mm : 1.07%
8. Win32.Netsky.C@mm : 1.03%
9. Trojan.Kobcka.CZ. : 0.83%
10. Win32.Mydoom.M@mm : 0.72%
02 Apr 08 | Security | Penetration of Corporate Web Security
Corporate web security might be a highly critical industry, but it still is in its infancy and has a lot of potential to grow. As of date, only 14 percent of all corporate user seats have web security installed in them. This is expected to generate $531 million in 2008.
Corporate web security is aimed at securing corporations from liability for Web browsing, productivity, malware, and data leakage.
13 Mar 08 | Security | Increase in Security Spend This Year
A recent research of 2000 professionals in 10 countries by Cisco has revealed that almost 62 percent of the companies are planning to increase their security spend on IT infrastructure this year. Of these 62 percent, more than half of them are expected to invest at least 10 percent of the spending more than what they invested last year.
12 Mar 08 | Security | How Much Does Your Company Monitor Your Online Activity?
Your company may be monitoring into your activities much more than you might be assuming. 62 percent of managers who fired their employees over email issues did so because of their inappropriate or offensive comments. 45 percent of the security teams of organizations use tracking software including keyloggers to monitor employees. 12 percent of the organizations also monitor blogs that mention one of their businesses while 10 percent keep an eye on social networking websites for such purposes.
03 Mar 08 | Security |