A web page is infected every 4.5 seconds, and other current statistics
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009Amongst other things mentioned at the ongoing 2009 RSA conference in San Francisco, the largest ICT security event in the world:
(i) ICT security pros need to work together to fight the now highly organised cyber criminals the world over. Online fraudsters “are not bound by any rules of law” and have control over “massive armies of zombie computers”. No more acting independently: now there’s a need to collaborate, to create a common development process: standards, sharing technologies and integrating technologies and controls into the infrastructure.
(ii) Cyber criminals have infiltrated everything imaginable: from the US power grid to the Pentagon.
(iii) Sophos said a web page is infected every 4.5 seconds & every day more than 20,000 new samples of malware are discovered.
(iv) Symantec said it had blocked 245 million attacks per month in 2008 : that’s 200,000 attacks every 30 minutes, and that 90% of attacks target confidential information
(v) Attackers are changing their approaches, from mass distribution (random attacks) to a few threats being distributed to micro-distribution where there are millions of distinct threats. Meaning, they now target individuals, to try to steal confidential information (medical, financial etc). Hence, anyone can be a victim.
Source
The BBC, 21 April 2009
