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Security Statistics
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55% of online users have been infected with spyware
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55% of online users said they had been infected with spyware, and 82% believed it
posed a threat to online privacy,
according to Bigfoot Interactive
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22% of users spend less time on e-mail because of spam
53% of adult e-mail users in the United States now say they trust e-mail less because
of spam, down from 62% a year ago and about the same as a June 2003,
according to Pew Internet and American Life Project.
22% of e-mail users say they are spending less time on e-mail because of spam, down
from 29% last year. In 2003, it was 25%.
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Only 7% of companies officially run Service Pack 2
AssetMetrix Research Labs released the results of a survey of 251 North American
companies, measuring the adoption of Windows XP Service Pack 2. Only 7% of companies
had actively embraced Windows XP Service Pack 2,
according to the New York Times.
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Content management generated $2.93 bln in 2003
According to IDC, the content management market around the world increased from
$2.6 bln in 2002
to an estimated $2.93 bln in 2003.
FileNet
is the content management market leader with $251.2 mln in license and maintenance
revenue for 2003.
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Zombie rankings for second half 2004: UK - 25.2%, USA
- 24.6%, China - 7.8%
In the second half of 2004, Symantec tracked the number of computers that have been
compromised by malicious software. 25.2% of all compromised computers the company
discovered
were based in the UK
, with the US following closely behind with 24.6%, and China in third with 7.8%.
In July 2004 Symantec was finding an average of 30,000 new compromised PCs each
day, which fell to 5,000 per day by December.
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33% of British companies give staff instant messaging
access
IT Observer
quotes the statistics on UK instant messaging usage.
The survey was conducted by Manchester Business School for Telewest Broadband in
UK. 33% of British companies are giving staff access to instant messaging, compared
to 84% who have a company intranet. While more than half of the companies with IM
felt that it did benefit the organisation (58%), only 3% of these said that it was
used as a formal communications tool.
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Malware cost estimated at $169-204 bln for 2004
Malware, including viruses, worms and Trojans, cost global businesses
between $169 bln and $204 bln in 2004, mi2g claims.
With around 600 mln Windows-based computers worldwide, this works out at between
$281 to $340 worth of damage per machine.
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For 52% of the networks the perimeter is the only defense
According to Preventsys and Qualys, 52% of chief information security officers
acknowledged having a "Moat & Castle"
approach to their overall network security. They admitted that once the
perimeter security is penetrated, their networks are at risk. Yet, 48% consider
themselves to be "proactive" when it comes to network security and feel
that they have a good grasp on their enterprise's security posture. 24% felt their
security was akin to Fort Knox (it would take a small army to get through), while
10% compared their network security to Swiss cheese (security holes inside and out).
The remaining 14% of respondents described their current network security as being
locked down on the inside, but not yet completely secured to the outside. Preventsys
and Qualys also found that 46% of security officers spend more than a third of their
day, and in some cases as much as 7 hours, analyzing reports generated from their
various security point solutions.
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Integrated security appliances to generate $3.3 bln by
2009
The integrated security appliance market is poised for explosive growth in the next
four years, reaching $3.3 bln by 2009,
according to Instat. Most security
appliances today offer firewall/VPN, intrusion detection and prevention, and gateway
anti-virus. Other capabilities can include content filtering, anti-spam, and anti
spyware.
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Instant messaging security threats doubling every 6 months
Gartner predicted that by the end of 2005, instant messaging will surpass e-mail
as the primary way people interact electronically. The Radicati Group says that
"more than 85% of all enterprises report using instant messaging for business".
Symantec claims that instant messengers and peer-to-peer applications were used
in 7 of the top 10 Internet threats in 2004, with IM security threats growing at
100% every six months.
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Spyware to reach 25% of business PCs
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Forrester Research predicts spyware infection levels
will reach 25% in 12 months,
prompting 65% of companies surveyed to say they will invest in anti-spyware tools
and upgrades this year. Some 80% of companies surveyed have already deployed specialized
tools to deal with the problem.
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32% of phishing sites are hosted in the US
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According to an Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) report on January 2005 phishing
activity, 32% of scammers' Web sites were hosted in the United States. China was
found to be in second place, hosting 13%, with Korea and Japan in third and fourth
places with 10% and 3.1% respectively.
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65% of businesses to spend money on anti-spyware
65% of businesses said they plan to put money into protecting their systems from
malicious and prying software programs in 2005. While 69% of large enterprises said
they would purchase anti-spyware tools in 2005, only 53% of small and medium businesses
said they'd go for such protection. Almost 40% of respondents failed to put a number
to the total number of their machines that have been infected. According to the
rest, about 17% of their systems had already suffered from spyware, a number
Forrester expects to climb to 25% within 12 months.
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18 mln phishing attempts recorded, viruses on decline
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Known computer viruses grew by 28,327 in 2004 to bring the number of old and new
viruses to 112,438, according to IBM. In 2002, only 4,551 new viruses were discovered.
Of 147 bln e-mails scanned by IBM for customers in 2004, 6% contained a virus. During
2002, just 0.5% of e-mail scanned had viruses. The average amount of spam circulating
on global networks was 75%. But during peak periods, spam accounted for as much
as 95% of e-mail traffic. The fastest-growing threat in 2004 was phishing - a method
of enticing computer users to submit personal information or fall prey to other
Internet deceptions. Such e-mails grew 5,000% last year, with some 18 mln phishing
attempts recorded, according to IBM.
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Zombie spam share down to 59%
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According to MessageLabs, the proportion of spam coming directly from networks of
infected machines has decreased from 79% to 59%, while overall spam levels have
climbed. The company believes that this proves that spammers are increasingly sending
their junk mails via the ISPs.
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14% of users read spam, and 4% buy products advertised
in spam
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Time wasted deleting junk e-mail costs American businesses nearly $22 bln a year.
A telephone-based survey of adults who use the Internet found that more than 75%
receive spam daily. The average spam messages per day is 18.5 and the average time
spent per day deleting them is 2.8 minutes. The loss in productivity is equivalent
to $21.6 bln per year at average US wages, according to the National Technology
Readiness Survey produced by Rockbridge Associates and the Center for Excellence
in Service at Maryland's business school. 14% of spam recipients actually read messages
to see what they say, and 4% of the recipients have bought something advertised
through spam within the past year.
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21% of spam in January 2005 was porn
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According to Email Systems, pornographic spam has rocketed from 7% of all unsolicited
mail in December 2004 to 21% in January 2005. Spam risen by around 40% since November,
while virus traffic has steadily declined. Spam now accounts for around 90% of all
email. More than two in five spam emails are medically related. In contrast, spam
advertising financial services dropped from 21% of all spam in December 2004 to
just 10% in January 2005.
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97% of spam was not CAN-SPAM-compliant
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MX Logic reported that one year after the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited
Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act went into effect, on average
97% of unsolicited commercial email over the past year failed to comply with the federal anti-spam law.
On average, spam accounted for 77% of all email traffic in 2004. MX Logic has measured
CAN-SPAM compliance each month since the law went into effect by examining a random
sample of 10,000 unsolicited commercial emails each week. During 2004, monthly compliance
ranged from a low of 0.54% in July to a high of 7percent in December.
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Most popular spam subject lines: Vioxx, phishing, live
on camera
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AOL released
the most popular subject lines
for spam that its users received in 2004. AOL boasts 29 mln members and blocked
1.2 bln messages in 2004. The Top 10 list is based on spam reports forwarded to
these teams by AOL members during the 2004 calendar year - much of it collected
in the aggregate via use of the popular "Report Spam" button on AOL.
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- We carry the most popular medications (arthritis drug Vioxx appeared often).
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You've been sent an Insta-Kiss! (phishing).
- You Have 17 New Pictures(phishing).
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STEAMY HOT LESBIAN ACTION LIVE ON CAMERA!
- All orders are shipped from authorized
locations (pertains to online medications).
- 2005 Digital Cable Filters(claimed
to unscramble digital cable channels).
- F R E E 30 Second Pre-Qualification MORTGAGE
Application.
- HURRY HURRY Hot Stock on the RISE.
- Sale PRICES ARE BEST
ONLINE!
- Breaking news on the Top Pick stock.
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20% of UK Internet users bought software pitched by spam
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Forrester Research survey found that 20% of UK Internet users purchase software,
when pitched by unsolicited e-mails. The BSA estimates that 90% of us here in the
UK get spam.
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651 e-mail users globally
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According to Radicati,
651 mln people around the world now use email regularly.
This figure is expected to grow steadily over the next four years, reaching 850
mln users by the end of 2008. The instant messaging market (IM) is also growing
rapidly, among both consumers and business users. The study projects especially
strong growth for IM Management products, which provide corporations with the ability
to log, manage, and archive IM according to external government regulations, and/or
internal corporate policies. This market is projected to grow at an average rate
of 40% per year over the next four years, growing from $32 mln today to $121 mln
in 2008.
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