Malware Had a Great Year in 2008, by Ellen Messmer, Network World via PC World (Apr 18)
Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report for 2008 shows the United States as "the top country of attack origin in 2008, accounting for 25% of worldwide activity."
"It was tops globally for the origination of Web-based attacks in 2008, taking 38% of the total. The United States also was the country most frequently targeted by denial-of-service attacks, accounting for 51% worldwide. As the top country for credit cards advertised on underground economy servers, the United States accounted for 67% of the total activity."
Of interest:
+ "number of vulnerabilities in software and hardware is increasing. Symantec identified 5,491 specific vulnerabilities in 2008, up 19% from the year before."
+ "Of 383 cases of data breaches at organizations identified by PrivacyRights.org last year, more than 83 million identities were exposed, and "29% of all data breaches that exposed identities came from financial services,""
Posted by Gwen at April 19, 2009 11:52 AM