Monday, September 17, 2007

Report: Four Percent of E-Crime From Fortune 100

Brian Krebs writes on Security Fix:

Roughly four percent of all spam, malicious software attacks, phishing Web sites and other cyber crime activities detected in the first half of 2007 emanated from the networks controlled by the world's 100 highest-grossing companies, according to a new report from anti-virus company Symantec.

The finding, from Symantec's semi-annual Internet Security Threat Report [.pdf], is significant because it indicates how much Fortune 100 organizations have been compromised and are being used by attackers as launching pads for malicious activity, the report notes.

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