Symantec Details Net Threats

Cyberspace is a dangerous place, and it's only getting worse, new report suggests.
Chris Conrath,
ITWorldCanada.com
Tuesday, March 16, 2004

Symantec's semi-annual Internet Security Threat report, released this week, paints a picture of an increasingly threatening Internet. But unlike previous reports, there seems to be little in the way of good news.



In the first half of the year, one in six companies reported a serious security breach, a number that increased to one in two in the second half. August, which will go down in history in malware folklore, had a nasty 12-day period when Blaster, Welchia, and SoBig.F infected millions of machines worldwide and caused billions of dollars in damage.

The second half of the year also saw a prodigious increase in the number of Win32 viruses and worms--1702 released in the second half versus 687 in the first.
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