Security Threats By The Numbers

SECURITY THREATS BY THE NUMBERS THREATS ARE ON THE RISE IN 2012 IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF THIS YEAR: Spam increased by 54.8% d Malware by 52.4% A Virus outbreaks by 90% SOURCE: ELEVEN Malware МOBILE MALWARE IS INCREASING samples New identified in mobile the first quarter malware of 2012 samples identified under more in the last 1,000 than 6,000 quarter of 2011 SOURCE: MCAFEE ANDROID A PRIME TARGET FOR MALWARE Out of more than 8,000 known malicious mobile programs, nearly 7,000 run only on Android. SOURCE: MCAFEE ANDROID MALWARE INCREASED 3,325% IN 2011. SOURCE: JUNIPER NETWORKS 63% 24 24 37% S could covertly text of those malware samples steal information, such as GPS coordinates, text records, premium numbers, driving up your phone bill. and browser histories. SOURCE: JUNIPER NETWORKS SOURCE: JUNIPER NETWORKS EVEN MACS ARE VULNERABLE TO INFECTION The number of Macintosh- targeted threats more than doubled in the first half of 2012. SOURCE: MCAFEE The Flashback trojan infected more than half a million Mac OSX machines. SOURCE: SOPHOS MOST ATTACKS ARE FROM KNOWN THREATS Less than 1% of infections come from "zero-day" exploits - attacks where the malware is too new to be recognized by your antivirus program. SOURCE: MICROSOFT SECURITY INTELLIGENCE REPORT, VOLUME 11 NO.1 CAUSE OF INFECTIONS: HUMAN ERROR OOPS 45% of infections were caused by users tricked into doing something that they shouldn't have done. SOURCE: MICROSOFT SECURITY INTELLIGENCE REPORT, VOLUME 11 SECURITY THREATS BY THE NUMBERS THREATS ARE ON THE RISE IN 2012 IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF THIS YEAR: Spam increased by 54.8% d Malware by 52.4% A Virus outbreaks by 90% SOURCE: ELEVEN Malware МOBILE MALWARE IS INCREASING samples New identified in mobile the first quarter malware of 2012 samples identified under more in the last 1,000 than 6,000 quarter of 2011 SOURCE: MCAFEE ANDROID A PRIME TARGET FOR MALWARE Out of more than 8,000 known malicious mobile programs, nearly 7,000 run only on Android. SOURCE: MCAFEE ANDROID MALWARE INCREASED 3,325% IN 2011. SOURCE: JUNIPER NETWORKS 63% 24 24 37% S could covertly text of those malware samples steal information, such as GPS coordinates, text records, premium numbers, driving up your phone bill. and browser histories. SOURCE: JUNIPER NETWORKS SOURCE: JUNIPER NETWORKS EVEN MACS ARE VULNERABLE TO INFECTION The number of Macintosh- targeted threats more than doubled in the first half of 2012. SOURCE: MCAFEE The Flashback trojan infected more than half a million Mac OSX machines. SOURCE: SOPHOS MOST ATTACKS ARE FROM KNOWN THREATS Less than 1% of infections come from "zero-day" exploits - attacks where the malware is too new to be recognized by your antivirus program. SOURCE: MICROSOFT SECURITY INTELLIGENCE REPORT, VOLUME 11 NO.1 CAUSE OF INFECTIONS: HUMAN ERROR OOPS 45% of infections were caused by users tricked into doing something that they shouldn't have done. SOURCE: MICROSOFT SECURITY INTELLIGENCE REPORT, VOLUME 11