All Entries in the "Security Data" Category
Top 10 Information Security Threats of 2010
Each year Kevin Prince, CTO at Perimeter E-Security writes a paper regarding what he feels are the top threats for the coming year. Over the past several years, his papers have not only been insightful, but spot on in nearly everything he has predicted. Perimeter just released the 2010 version and can be [...]
Email Security
According to Websense (State of Internet Security Q1 & Q2 2009), 87.7 percent of email messages were spam during the first half of 2009. While I have seen the percentage by other vendors be higher, it does represent a 3 percent increase over the previous 6 months (again according to Websense).
85.6 percent [...]
Objectional Sites = Malicious Content
Website with “objectionable content” (e.g. sex, adult content, gambling, drugs) are often times infected with malicious software and links to sites that attempt to exploit end users systems. According to Websense,
50 percent of web pages linked to web sites categorized as “sex” also served malicious content.
69 percent of all web pages with [...]
Blogs littered with malware
According to Websense Security Labs in their “State of the Internet” report, 95 percent of user-generated comments to blogs, chat rooms and messaage boards are spam or malicious.
Most of the Top 100 Websites have hosted malicious content in the last 6 months
According to Websense more than half (61 percent) of the top 100 websites in the last 6 months have hosted malware (malicious software) or malicious hidden redirection links. These breaches of heavily used sites is the weapon of choice by cyber criminals.
77 Percent of websites with malware are legitimate sites
If a website has malicious software (malware) on it, there is a 77 percent chance that the site is a legitimate site that has been compromised according to Websense. In other words, when a cyber criminal injects malware on a website, nearly 4 our of 5 cases do it on a legitimate website. [...]
233 Percent Growth in Malware sites in the last 6 months
According to Websense Security Labs, there has been a 233 percent growth in the number of malicious web sites in the last six months. They also note a 671 percent growth during the last year.
The True Cost of a Data Security Breach: The Heartland Case Study
While not enough information has been released to know the full measure of the Heartland data breach, bits and pieces have come and and we can begin to understand the impact to a company that has a serious data security breach. Kevin Prince of Perimeter eSecurity touched on this subject in a series of [...]
2009 Verizon Business Risk Team Findings
Key Findings of the 2009 Verizon Business Risk Team Cybercrime Report
This year’s key findings both support last year’s conclusions and provide new insights. These include:
* Most data breaches investigated were caused by external sources. Seventy-four percent of breaches resulted from external sources, while 32 percent were linked to [...]
Exploitable IE6 Still Top Browser Used
in 2001, Microsoft released Internet Explorer version 6. 5 years later the released version 7 and just recently the released version 8. While there are now two newer FREE versions, as well as many other FREE products from other vendors, the majority of systems still use IE6. Some of the major milestones [...]