E-crime has evolved into a booming business. Viruses, malware and online crime have moved from hacking vandalism into a major shadow economy that closely mimics the real business world, including profit-driven organised cybercrime, writes Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CTO at Finjan.
Despite the proliferation of anti-spam solutions on the market, spam volume has reached epidemic proportions, writes Dan Hubbard, vice-president of security research at Websense.
Spam email has just celebrated its fifteenth birthday, or so we are led to believe. Now it is ever more sophisticated at penetrating your email inbox and has a negative impacty on productivity in the workplace. It is also becoming more sophisticated and could pose a significant security threat to your business.
Seven out of 10 Americans don't know what botnets are or the threat they pose to the internet, a study by the US National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) revealed.