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A web page is infected every 4.5 seconds, and other current statistics

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 |

Amongst 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.

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The BBC, 21 April 2009

Jon Lech Johansen: reverse engineering wizard

Sunday, October 29th, 2006 |

Nicknamed “DVD Jon”, infamous for coauthoring DeCSS, which decodes the content-scrambling system used for DVD licensing enforcement. (more…)

Vardan Kushnir: Russia’s spam king murdered

Thursday, July 27th, 2006 |

He is Russia’s most despised Internet figure, sending 25 million spam emails a day and earning 5 figures (US dollars) a month, a fortune by Russia’s standards.

He was into the good, but sleazy life and found dead one morning in his bathroom, skull bashed in.

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Gary McKinnon aka Solo: the new Mitnick?

Thursday, May 11th, 2006 |

US govt alleges that between February 2001 and March 2002, he repeatedly hacked into, from the UK, dozens of computers used by the US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Department of Defense.

Talk about bad timing: that’s within 9/11’s timeframe. (more…)

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