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M86 Security Documents Increases In Spam, Attacks
Doug Caverly
Staff Writer
2010-02-17
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This may not come as shocking news - the trend has been acknowledged and recorded for years - but it's becoming less and less safe out there, according to a new report from M86 Security. Increases in problems related to spam, zero-day vulnerabilities, URL shorteners, and Twitter were all recorded.
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The latest stats from M86 Security cover the second half of 2009, and during that period, the number of spam messages sent per day topped 200 billion. Messages that qualified as malicious spam, meanwhile, hit 3 billion, compared to just 600 million per day during the first half of 2009.
As for the zero-day vulnerabilities mentioned earlier, M86 Security stated that "the most notable" were discovered in Adobe and Microsoft products.
Finally, spam, phishing, and malware issues cropped up in increasing numbers on Twitter, while URL shorteners were abused on Twitter and all over the Web in order to trick people into visiting certain not-at-all-safe sites.
M86 Security recommends responding to these threats in the usual ways - staying alert and updating all of your software - and also by looking at browser add-ons like NoScript and tools like SecureBrowsing. These steps can definitely make a person safer.
About the Author:
Doug is a staff writer for SecurityProNews, InternetFinancialNews, SearchNewz, and WebProNews.
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