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McAfee, Inc., the global leader in Intrusion Prevention and Security Risk Management, today announced a significant milestone in the growth of malicious threats faced by businesses and individual users. McAfee Avert Labs combine world-class malicious code and anti-virus research with intrusion prevention and vulnerability research expertise.
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“This is by no means a victory for the security industry over malware writers”, said James Kay, chief technology officer at BlackSpider. “What we are actually seeing is a switch in virus distribution tactics rather than a drop in viruses,” he said.
It’s more of an evolution than a new wave in internet crime,” said Thomas Raschke, senior analyst at Forrester Research.
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The report tracks annual VPN service revenue by service type, technology, remote access vs. site-to-site, intranet vs. extranet, and organization size, and tracks security services by service type and organization size.
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The malware writers are trying to keep the vendors busy while they target malware attacks, such as specific threats sent to specific users for theft purposes, she added.
“Figures may vary from one company and other, of course, but undoubtedly the Trojan hordes, due to their capability to steal passwords, give the creators the chance of stealing money,” Panda Software Labs’ Sanabria said.
The stats arrive at a time when the “classical” viruses (file virus, macro virus, etc) are considered almost dead by firms such as Panda. Ron O’Brien, senior security analyst at Sophos, explained to internetnews.com that the Mac statement was made in the context of whether the end user is committed to the effort or time to manage and maintain a safe and protected Windows environment.
“The introduction of new security measures, including some planned for Vista, may slow down the rate at which machines are impacted by malware, O’Brien said. Microsoft, for its part, said it believes Windows customers are becoming increasingly more secure, thanks in part to Microsoft’s Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT). Microsoft claims in a recent report that since it released MSRT, over 270 million unique computers ran the tool for about 2.7 billion executions of the removal tool.
“It’s important to remember that no software is 100 percent secure,” a Microsoft spokesperson told internetnews.com.
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Data Security was the top concern of enterprise IT professionals according to the results of a recently released survey sponsored by Apani Networks, a provider of software that secures inside the network perimeter.
The results were compiled by a third party, Infosurv Market Research, for the first of an ongoing series of surveys aimed at investigating IT security issues and concerns within enterprises worldwide.
Results were based on 591 respondents worldwide and covered questions in the areas of data protection, security policies, network segmentation, de-perimeterization, IT security implementation and attack profiles.
The theft of data emerged as a clear primary focus for all respondents, with more than 70 percent of respondents indicating they were “somewhat” to “very” concerned about potential loss of data with 38 percent of respondents indicating that they experienced an insider attack during the past 12 months.
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