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.: Government, Financial Top Targets Of Security Attacks - 3rd Aug 2005
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"Today, IBM reported that virus-laden emails and criminal driven security attacks increased by 50 percent in the first half of 2005 - underscored by a significant rise in 'customised' attacks on the government, financial services, manufacturing and healthcare industries.
According to the report, there were more than 237 million overall security attacks in the first half of the year. The government sector was the most targeted industry, with more than 54 million attacks, while manufacturing ranked second with 36 million attacks, financial services was third with approximately 34 million, and healthcare was hit with more than 17 million attacks - accounting for more than 137 million of all attacks this year..."
[IT-Observer] |
.: Spyware, adware and unaware - 3rd Aug 2005
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"Spyware is public enemy number one. Web advertising networks are strongly lobbying to make sure that the anti-Spyware bill known as the Spy Act is watered down a bit before passage.
These tenacious Washington insiders are concerned that the law as written could restrict their ability to do their job – that is, to infiltrate corporate computer networks, to reduce employee productivity and to slow down corporate networks. Recent surveys of IT managers around the world have identified spyware as the number one threat faced by corporate security managers..."
[SC Magazine] |
.: In 'cookie' fight, it's not clear who's winning - 3rd Aug 2005
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"Internet users are taking back control of their computers, and online marketers and publishers are not pleased. But they do not quite know what to do about their conundrum - if it is a conundrum, since they cannot even agree on that.
Until recently, Internet businesses could track their users freely, using so-called cookies, tiny text files they secretly embed on the surfer's hard drive. Now, with the proliferation of antispyware programs that can delete unwanted cookies, they often cannot tell who has been to their Web site or what they have seen..."
[IHT] |
.: Spyware Costs IT $130,000 Monthly - 3rd Aug 2005
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"A survey of more than 1,000 IT managers and end users reveals that spyware and other unsanctioned downloads are resulting in average monthly costs of $130,000 to IT enterprises. The survey also found that spyware incursions appear to be growing at a rate twice that of computer virus incidents.
Greynets, applications that are downloaded and installed on end user PCs without IT sanction, are increasingly represented by instant messaging. "Within the next six months, virtually all end users will have deployed some type of greynet application," the report states. "Based on stated intentions, this number will rise to 93 percent in the next six months..."
[CMP] |
.: The Mystery of Spyware, Part II - 24th Jun 2005
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"An anti-spyware software company finds that spyware — broadly defined — is found on roughly nine out of ten online computers. Webroot looked at spyware incidence on corporate and consumer PCs, scanning more than 35,000 corporate systems in about 18,000 companies, and running more than 1 million scans of individual PCs belonging to visitors to the Webroot site.
"The definition of spyware is all programs installing themselves onto a user's computer by stealth, subterfuge and/or social engineering and whose purpose is to redirect a user's activities or record those activities in a way that reduces a user's privacy, protection or peace of mind..."
[eMarketer] |
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