Based on data obtained during the investigation and monitoring more than 150,000 security events per second for each day of 2010, the company reached the following conclusions. Thus, according to a report by 27 % over the same period in 2009 increased the number of vulnerabilities. Registered more than 8000 new threats. However, the volume of spam has stabilized.
Despite the fact that last year there were fewer phishing, again this year recorded an increase in the number of phishing attacks. However, according to a report in 2010, cybercriminals did not bet on the number of attacks, and the quality of.
In 2010 recorded a high growth in the use of smartphones and mobile devices, and therefore, IT security departments have been forced to tighten control and ways to protect. Despite the fact that cases of assault were not large in scope, these IBM X-Force is still showed an increase in vulnerability.
According to the report, IBM X-Force in 2010, nearly a quarter of all financial phishing emails designed for European banks. Among the same 10 countries that send spam in 2010, entered the United Kingdom, Germany, Ukraine and Romania.
According to the analyst IBM X-Force Tom Cross, every day there are more varied methods of attack from cybercriminals. ...
Group Research and Development IBM X-Force is engaged in cataloging, analyzing and studying the vulnerability of IT security in 1997. Catalogue of X-Force, with more than 43,000 vulnerabilities, is the world's largest vulnerability database code. This unique database helps X-Force to better understand the dynamics of the process, which helps in the investigation of known vulnerabilities and effective identification of new threats.
Source: rbcdaily. ru.
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