[NPMUG] Security threat report: July 2009 update ... Apple users seen as a "soft target" ... so be smart, know the enemy

[Dave Sevick]

Six Months at a Glance

23,500 new infected webpages are discovered every day. That’s one  
every 3.6 seconds, 4 times worse than what it was in the same period  
in 2008.

The US hosts more malware, relays more spam than any other country.

40,000 new suspicious files are examined by SophosLabs every day.

22.5 million different samples of malware in the collection of  
independent testing agency, AV-Test.org

15 new bogus anti-virus vendor websites are discovered every day. This  
number has tripled, up from an average of five detected per day,  
during 2008.

89.7 percent of all business email is spam.

Approximately 6,500 new spam-related websites are discovered every day  
- accounting for one new website every 13 seconds, 24 hours a day.  
This figure is almost double what it was in the same period in 2008.

Source: Sophos Labs

Full Security Threat Report - PDF
http://www.sophos.com/sophos/docs/eng/papers/sophos-security-threat-report-jul-2009-na-wpus.pdf

Finally, for those of you who digest information via your ears rather  
than your eyes, here's a podcast where Carole Theriault and Graham  
Cluley discuss some of the findings of the report:
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/07/24/threat-report-july-2009/


Here are some of the questions that you may have answered if you do  
decide to download the Security Threat Report:

What did hackers claim Barack Obama had done on the eve of his  
presidential inauguration?
Which veteran pop star was running a website that helped hackers steal  
your banking information?
A hacker threatened to auction personal information about 8.3 million  
patients inwhich US state to the highest bidder?
Which social networking site strikes the most fear into system  
administrator's hearts from the malware point-of-view?
Which of the following didn't have their Twitter account compromised  
by hackers? Barack Obama, Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears or Basil Brush?

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