<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div class=""><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Six Months at a Glance</span></font></b></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">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.</span></font></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">The US hosts more malware, relays more spam than any other country.</span></font></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">40,000 new suspicious files are examined by SophosLabs every day.</span></font></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">22.5 million different samples of malware in the collection of independent testing agency, AV-Test.org</span></font></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">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.</span></font></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">89.7 percent of all business email is spam.</span></font></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">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. </span></font></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Source: Sophos Labs</span></font></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div class=""><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Full Security Threat Report - PDF</span></font></b></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.sophos.com/sophos/docs/eng/papers/sophos-security-threat-report-jul-2009-na-wpus.pdf">http://www.sophos.com/sophos/docs/eng/papers/sophos-security-threat-report-jul-2009-na-wpus.pdf</a></span></font></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Finally, for those of you who digest information via your ears rather than your eyes, here's <b>a podcast where Carole Theriault and Graham Cluley</b> discuss some of the findings of the report:</span></span></font></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/07/24/threat-report-july-2009/">http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/07/24/threat-report-july-2009/</a></font></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><br></span></font></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; ">Here are some of the questions that you may have answered if you do decide to download the Security Threat Report:</p><ol style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 30px; "><li>What did hackers claim Barack Obama had done on the eve of his presidential inauguration?</li><li>Which veteran pop star was running a website that helped hackers steal your banking information?</li><li>A hacker threatened to auction personal information about 8.3 million patients in<em>which</em> US state to the highest bidder?</li><li>Which social networking site strikes the most fear into system administrator's hearts from the malware point-of-view?</li><li>Which of the following <em>didn't</em> have their Twitter account compromised by hackers? Barack Obama, Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears or Basil Brush?</li></ol></span></span></font></div><div class="" style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><b><br></b></span></font></div></body></html>