(November 2, 2009)
According to Microsoft's Security Intelligence Report, Conficker was the
top threat to enterprise computers during the first half of 2009. Worm
infections overall doubled between the second half of 2008 and the first
half of this year; worms rose from the fifth most prevalent cyber threat
to the second most prevalent. Worms are not as big a security concern
to home users; the most prevalent cyber security threat in the home
environment during the first half of 2009 was miscellaneous Trojans,
including rogue security software. The volume of phishing was four
times higher in May and June of this year than in the preceding 10
months due to concentrated attacks on social networking sites.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=221400323
http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabi...tacks/breaches
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
[Editor's Note (Schultz): It's funny how just two or three years ago
many information security professionals, myself very much included,
falsely proclaimed that the worm threat was vanishing.]
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