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This disparity may be responsible for the rise in costs of dealing with security incidents overall, while average “clean-up” costs for large companies actually decreased.

http://www.viruslist.com/en/news?id=185152438

“It is very encouraging to see that, despite ongoing reports of new threats and breaches, businesses across all sectors are feeling better protected,” Cisco Systems senior security advisor Paul King said.

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/04/20/cisco_security_survey/

“A botnet is an army of bots, or a bot network, and a bot virus-infected computer is called a zombie.

2005 saw a rise in profit-driven attacks. These were reflected by phishing, which now represents as much as one percent of the global e-mail traffic and is far more effective than spamming.

Chong believes education and awareness will be the best way to address the rise in such cyber threats, albeit being a long-term strategy.

http://www.cio-today.com/news/More-Net-Threats-Expected-This-Year/story.xhtml?story_id=110003SIN756

Interestingly, another study conducted in Britain by YouGov shows that the higher echelons of management in British companies have extremely low expectations regarding computer security.

http://www.viruslist.com/en/news?id=184623070

Security experts presume that cooperation amongst hackers, numerous websites and blogs containing root codes and binary executables all helped rootkits to spread and become even more difficult to detect and get rid of.

The only way to stop the fast growth and spread of rootkits is with the coming of Windows Vista, McAfee thinks.

http://www.xatrix.org/article4357.html

Malicious users are also adapting and are exploiting security flaws quicker than ever before, paving the way to the appearance of so-called “zero-day” exploits: these appear virtually at the same time that the vulnerability is disclosed.

http://www.viruslist.com/en/news?id=184476427