The last 12 months have seen a dramatic growth in almost every security threat that plague Windows PCs.

The count of known viruses broke the 100,000 barrier and the number of new viruses grew by more than 50%.

Similarly phishing attempts, in which conmen try to trick people into handing over confidential data, are recording growth rates of more than 30% and attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated.

Also on the increase are the number of networks of remotely controlled computers, called bot nets, used by malicious hackers and conmen to carry out many different cyber crimes.

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Buz

really interesting. thanks for that. though this would be good news for the security consultant industry. an increased demand for their services.

Yes... very interesting. i saw that yesterday but i didnt know URL aress

read it, there is lot of right of them but some things are too strong said

/sorry for my english

To add something to this info, it's interesting to take a look at the "online survival time" given by the Internet Storm Center from SANS (http://isc.sans.org/survivalhistory.php?is...a14ef6fcc50078f).

In 2004, the average time was below 20 minutes for the full year, in 2003 it was above 30 minutes (and even closer to 40 !!). What will it be in 2005 ??