Data gathered by Web security vendor Dasient shows that over 1.1 million websites were infected during the fourth quarter of 2010.The number of infected websites was almost double the one registered for the same period in 2009, suggesting that the Web attack vector has become a very attractive one for cyber criminals... |
8 March 2011
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Security researchers warn that spammers have already launched campaigns exploiting people's interest into the upcoming Presidents' Day holiday,Washington's Birthday, also known as Presidents' Day, is one of the eleven annual United States federal holidays and among the most celebrated ones.The hol... |
18 February 2011
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According to a recently released report from Symantec, attack toolkits are directly responsible for over sixty percent of malicious activity on the Web and their popularity is ever increasing.The report [pdf] attributes the increased prevalence of attack kits, also known as exploit packs or drive-by download toolkits... |
18 January 2011
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According to a Symantec report 90% of all websites used to spread malware or launch attacks against users are legitimate ones that have been compromised. For over half of the remaining 10%, that are malicious by design, attackers register new domains every day.The data used to compile the report (PDF) comes from Mess... |
8 July 2010
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According to a report recently released by security vendor Sophos, the United States hosted over 37% of the total amount of malware on the web in 2009. The prevalence of malicious programs hosted in China has significantly reduced during the past year, positioning the country in the third place after Russia.The top t... |
3 February 2010
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According to a survey conducted by antivirus vendor PC Tools, 25 percent of Web users do not fully understand threats that spread through zero-day vulnerabilities in popular software. Meanwhile, women are more savvy than men when it comes to reusing passwords, despite the fact that the latter are better informed abou... |
4 September 2009
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