Article> Internet threat landscape offers a grim picture

[Homeland Security Newswire, 7min read, what would YOU do if you lost all technology that is currently at your fingertips...got a plan?]




A new Symantec report paints a grim picture of the Internet threat landscape; Symantec detected more than three billion malware attacks from 286 million malware variants in 2010 -- up 93 percent on 2009; 49 percent of malicious sites found through Web searches were pornographic; in 2010, 6,253 software vulnerabilities were reported, higher than in any previous year; fourteen vulnerabilities were used in zero-day attacks, including four different Windows zero-days used in the Stuxnet attack; the bad guys also demonstrated a firm grasp of new technology: social networking sites are a huge target, and hackers are exploiting the boom in URL shortening services such as bit.ly; smartphones are also beginning to attract malware.  


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