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Businesses See Rise in Hacking Attacks

Mark Mayne writes on SC Magazine Online:

Businesses are reporting a massive increase in serious hacking incidents, with network intrusions reported to have rocketed from one per cent in 2006 to 13 per cent in 2007.

Andrew Beard, Partner, PriceWaterHouseCoopers, said: "The rise in intrusions is extremely worrying - bear in mind these are actual intruders caught on corporate networks, not just people knocking on the door..."

The shocking figures come from an otherwise upbeat PWC report into business threats over the last year. The report found that while businesses have responded to the overall security threat with increased implementations of anti-malware measures, big exposures remain. Nine per cent of respondents had cases of customers being fraudulently impersonated (such as following ID theft), while six per cent admitted they had lost customer data through a confidentiality breach.

posted by Fergie @ 4/22/2008 01:05:00 PM