Trojan phishing attack claims multiple victims
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| Security watchers have discovered a string of malicious websites that
| install Trojan code, allowing hackers to compromise end-user banking
| credentials for more than 50 financial institutions and ecommerce websites.
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| "At the time of this alert, the statistics showed more than 1,000
| successful infections per day, with the USA and Australia leading
| the list," Websense explains.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/23/trojan_phishing_attack/
Guess who's paying for this?
Related:
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
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| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
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| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
Study: Billions of dollars spent on security
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| Large U.S. businesses will spend $61 billion on security by the end
| of this year, representing 7.3 percent of total IT budgets in the
| country, according to a new report from Info-Tech Research Group.
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http://news.com.com/2110-7350_3-6135989.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
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