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- Name
- Bill Shinnick
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Security company Sophos has issued its mid-year security threat report.
Highlights of the report include the following:
There has been a 60% increase in malware in comparison with 2010, with
Sophos seeing more than 150,000 new malware samples every day - one sample
every 0.5 seconds. Some 19,000 malicious web pages are now identified
daily, with 80% being pages on legitimate websites that have been hacked or
compromised. 81% of people surveyed by Sophos said Facebook posed the
biggest social networking.
You can download the report from the Sophos website - it does ask you to
supply your email and name and other details before providing the download.
It is a well presented and interesting document if you decide to download
it.
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A copy of the text of this email for verification - which may include
further updates is at:
Latest Bulletins
Bulletin ID (also shown on web version): DCLR-8KHTCQ
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B U L L E T I N
Security company Sophos has issued its mid-year security threat report.
Highlights of the report include the following:
There has been a 60% increase in malware in comparison with 2010, with
Sophos seeing more than 150,000 new malware samples every day - one sample
every 0.5 seconds. Some 19,000 malicious web pages are now identified
daily, with 80% being pages on legitimate websites that have been hacked or
compromised. 81% of people surveyed by Sophos said Facebook posed the
biggest social networking.
You can download the report from the Sophos website - it does ask you to
supply your email and name and other details before providing the download.
It is a well presented and interesting document if you decide to download
it.
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