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    Updated: Symantec Analyst Relations 10 Dec 2012

    Symantec Intelligence Report: August 2012

    The August edition of the Symantec Intelligence report provides the latest analysis of cyber security threats, trends, and insights from the Symantec Intelligence team concerning malware, spam, and other potentially harmful business risks. The data used to compile the analysis for this report includes data from May 2011 through August 2012. Report highlights Spam – 72.3 percent (an increase of 4.7 percentage points since July) Phishing – One in 312.9 emails identified as phishing (an increase of 0.109 percentage points since July) Malware – One in 233.1 emails contained malware (a decrease of 0.14 percentage points since July) Malicious Web sites – 1 website blocked per day (a decrease of 49.8 percent since July) The state of data breaches to date in 2012 A look at a malicious email scam that pretends to come from Symantec A new Java zero-day vulnerability appears in...
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    Updated: Symantec Analyst Relations 10 Dec 2012

    Attacks use Olympics as bait for spam, malware and phishing attacks - Symantec Intelligence Report: July 2012

    The July edition of the Symantec Intelligence report provides the latest analysis of cyber security threats, trends, and insights from the Symantec Intelligence team concerning malware, spam, and other potentially harmful business risks. The data used to compile the analysis for this report includes data from January through June 2012. Report highlights Spam – 67.6 percent (an increase of 0.8 percentage points since June) Phishing – One in 475.3 emails identified as phishing (a decrease of 0.003 percentage points since June) Malware – One in 340.9 emails contained malware (a decrease of 0.023 percentage points since June) Malicious Web sites – 2,189 Web sites blocked per day (an increase of 4.0 percent since June) Olympic related scams and threats to keep an eye on Web attack toolkit activity in the first six months of 2012 A roundup of the best blogs of the last month...
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    Updated: Symantec Analyst Relations 10 Dec 2012

    CISOs, Do You Speak Business Risk? You Better

    By Patricia Titus, Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer This blog was originally posted in Information Unleashed: The Official Voice of Symantec Security leaders have come a long way, from backroom IT gurus to earning a seat at the executive table. Today, boardroom discussions increasingly focus on security threats and risk management and CISOs are being asked by the CEO “How secure is our online e-commerce site?” or “Are we at risk of being attacked by hackers?” As a security leader, your answer to these questions can determine whether you get the resources and support needed to manage the risks to your organization. Therefore, the ability to answer these kinds of questions in a way that resonates with business executives is critical. To do this, you cannot rely on the...
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    Updated: Symantec Analyst Relations 10 Dec 2012

    Symantec Intelligence Report: February 2012

    Socially engineered polymorphic malware spoofing a well-known North American business mediation and arbitration service The February edition of the Symantec Intelligence report provides the latest analysis of cyber security threats, trends and insights from the Symantec Intelligence team concerning malware, spam, and other potentially harmful business risks. The data used to compile the analysis for this report includes data from January 2011 and February 2012. Report highlights Spam – 68.0 percent (a decrease of 1.0 percentage points since January 2011): page 7 Phishing – One in 358.1 emails identified as phishing (an increase of 0.01 percentage points since January 2011): page 10 Malware – One in 274.0 emails contained malware (an increase of 0.03 percentage points since January 2011): page 12 Malicious Web sites – 2,305 Web sites blocked per day (an increase of 9.7 percent since...