Symantec Releases Security Threat Report
April 2008 marks Symantec’s release of their latest Global Internet Security Report covering trends for July 2007 to December 2007. It includes analysis of network-based attacks, a review of known vulnerabilities, and highlights of malicious code. It also assesses trends in phishing and spam activity.
Highlights of interest to IT professionals include:
- Theft or loss of computer or data storage was the cause of most data breaches that could lead to identity theft.
- Microsoft had the shortest patch development time. Sun had the longest.
- Eighty-eight vulnerabilities that affected enterprise vendors in the second half of 2007 remained unpatched at the end of the reporting period.
- Threats to confidential information made up 68 percent of the volume of the top 50 potential malicious code infections.
- During the period the report covers spam made up 71 percent of all email traffic monitored at the gateway.
You can download or view the full report in PDF file format here at the Symantec web site.
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