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  • A crime against statistics that is probably worse than the cyber attacks faced in County Durham

    Tomorrow, I will give a talk entitled “Don’t know much about security” at the offices of ENISA , the EU’s agency for network and information security. Despite the title, the talk will not be about myself; rather, it will be about the fact that there are many aspects of security that we simply don’t understand…

  • A crime against statistics that is probably worse than the cyber attacks faced in County Durham

    Tomorrow, I will give a talk entitled “Don’t know much about security” at the offices of ENISA , the EU’s agency for network and information security. Despite the title, the talk will not be about myself; rather, it will be about the fact that there are many aspects of security that we simply don’t understand…

  • Throwback Thursday: Memetic Mass Mailers: Time to Classify Hoaxes as Malware?

    This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back to July 2002, when virus hoaxes were wreaking havoc in homes and organizations worldwide. Virus hoaxes — false reports or warnings about non-existent viruses whose traditional payload was time wasting and increasing user anxiety about the virus threat, but which could also extend to getting the user…

  • Throwback Thursday: The real virus problem

    This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back to February 2004 when, in order to get a gauge of the “real” virus problem, Jim Bates presented the findings of a survey of UK computer programmers. “A ragbag of pseudo-scientific projections, surveys, reports, forecasts and speculations” — the true extent of the malware problem has always…

  • Drop reported in infected computers worldwide

    Nearly one third of computers still found to be infected. The proportion of infected computers worldwide decreased from 38.49% in 2011 to 31.98% last year, according to an annual security report from PandaLabs . In the report, China tops the list of countries with the most infections in 2012 (54.89% of machines infected), followed by…

  • Dutch most protected Europeans online

    Bulgarians most likely to have become infected; financial losses most prevalent among Latvians. For the occasion of Safer Internet Day on 8 February, Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, published a report providing various statistics on Internet security. One of the report’s findings was that the use of IT security software (e.g. anti-virus software or a…

  • China hosting over half of malicious sites

    StopBadware.org report highlights Chinese dominance in web malware. A report from StopBadware.org released last week found that 52% of malicious websites were hosted in China, with the US the only other major player in the field with 21%. The report was compiled from the list of active malicious sites flagged by Google ‘s Safe Browsing…

  • Microsoft unveils January-June threat report

    Security analysis shows rise in vulnerabilities, trojans and scamware. Microsoft has released its latest ‘Security Intelligence Report’, covering the first half of 2007, showing a steady increase in reports of software vulnerabilities, ‘potentially unwanted’ applications and trojan activity. The study found vulnerabilities continuing in an upward trend lasting since 2003, with high-severity flaws rising most…

  • What’s in a number?

    Latest round of spam stats. According to various reports last month, spam now accounts for 83%, 85%, 91.9% or 95% of all emails received. Regardless of the inconsistencies, the figures (released by various tech firms, consultancies and analysts) do all put the total volume of spam at a very high level. However, now that spam…

  • Trivia

    Panda reveals country with lowest level of infected PCs. Panda Security has revealed that results from its online malware-scanning tool Nanoscan indicate that computers it scanned in the UK have a lower level of active malware (8.1%) than those it scanned in the rest of Europe and the Americas (ranging from 17.4% in Argentina to…