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On August 26, the IBM X-Force released its 2009 mid-year security report. Briefing sessions in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth commenced on Tuesday 1 September to launch the report across Australia. Craig Lawson, IBM’s local X-Force specialist shared that the report findings indicate a perfect storm of criminal cyber activity and an unprecedented state of Web insecurity.
What does this mean? The bottom line is that there is no such thing as a safe web browsing environment. Criminals are abandoning traditional techniques such as phishing in favour of more sophisticated and effective Web exploitation techniques and are increasingly targeting legitimate, trusted websites.
The 2009 Midyear X-Force report also found that:
- Vulnerabilities have reached a plateau.
- PDF vulnerabilities have increased.
- Trojans account for more than half of all new malware.
- Phishing has decreased dramatically.
- URL spam is still number one, but image-based spam is making a comeback.
- Nearly half of all vulnerabilities remain unpatched.
Want to learn more?
Download the presentation here
For more information download the full report here (4.66MB)
Miss the briefing sessions? See a recording of the Sydney event here.
Video 1: A bit about X-Force, the threat landscape, vulnerabilities and their measures.
Video 2: A closer look at the web problem
Video 3: Spam continues to change to avoid detection, and a closer look at the Malware Business.
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