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Scary security numbers from Trend Micro
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| Case in point:
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| 1. Newly created Web threats grew 1,564 percent from Q1 2005 through the
| end of 2007. That's nearly 200 percent growth every quarter. This is due
| to the large number of variants written off of a base of the original
| threat.
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| 2. In 2005, Trend examined less than 1 million malicious code patterns. In
| 2007, there were nearly 5.5 million malicious code patterns. In the first
| four months of 2008, Trend has already seen more than 2 million.
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| These numbers point to the fact that the bad guys are winning. Even the most
| sophisticated security departments at enterprise organizations are no match
| for this onslaught.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9939419-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
This ought to explain why roughly 320 million of today's Windows PCs are
already controlled by a criminal. Use Windows, be used.
Recent:
Botnets Running Rampant
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| How much money is being stolen by cybercriminals? No one knows, and no one
| even knows how to go about coming up with that number, IronPort's Peterson
| said.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144489/botnets_running_rampant.html
Related:
Online banking fraud 'up 8,000%'
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| The UK has seen an 8,000% increase in fake internet banking scams
| in the past two years, the government's financial watchdog has warned.
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| The Financial Services Authority (FSA) told peers it was "very concerned"
| about the growth in "phishing".
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6177555.stm
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