Microsoft and new trends in cybercrime
Date: October 26, 2007Source: vnunet.com
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The report found that during the first half of this year there were some 31.6m phishing scams in existence, as well as a 500 per cent increase in Trojan tools and code used to steal passwords, log keyboard strokes, and place malware onto users' systems.
In a survey of some 3,600 security, privacy and marketing executives – picked from both America and the UK, the researchers found that increasingly these threats were specifically designed to target personal information. Presenting their findings at the RSA security show in London, researchers from the Ponemon institute recommended that more collaboration between security and privacy teams was critical to preventing data loss and security being compromised.
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