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| Phishing And Trojan Attacks Continue To Grow |
| 2005-03-22 |
| Security threats that try to steal confidential information or compromise IT systems continued to increase during the last six months of 2004, according to the latest Internet Security Threat Report from security vendor Symantec Corp. Businesses suffered an average of 13.6 attacks per day in the second half of last year, up from 10.6 daily attacks in the first six months of the year, the report says. And there were 1,403 new vulnerabilities discovered during that period, a 13% increase from the previous six months. Symantec says malicious code designed to expose confidential information made up more than half all code samples picked up by the vendor. And Trojan horses by themselves made up a third of all the malicious code. Phishing, the report says, continues to be a major problem, and the threat is growing. Symantec last July blocked around 9 million phishing incidents per week. By December, the amount grew to around 33 million per week. Symantec says its Brightmail AntiSpam software blocked most of those attempts. Symantec says Slammer, or the Microsoft SQL Server Resolution Service Stack Overflow Attack, was still the most common kind of security attack seen. And financial-services companies faced more serious attacks than other companies, experiencing around 16 severe events for every 10,000 security events. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Most of the attempts on my tiny network are for MS file sharing stuffies on ports 135-139 and 445. but that's on the FTP server. Haven't seen an MSSQL request in ages. |
| Posted by: badanov 2005-03-22 1:15:20 PM |
| #6 Watch it R-Burgers, I went to "A Small Victory" and got hit this morning. "Buzzbomb" or something... |
| Posted by: Bodyguard 2005-03-22 11:56:00 AM |
| #5 Got it in one, Robert. Try SQLAnywhere (which I actually have managed to shoe-horn in to a W2K cluster), or PostGRE. |
| Posted by: mojo 2005-03-22 10:46:23 AM |
| #4 ..but it's getting to be a pain with so many coming in. A lot of them seem to originate in China or point to a site there. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-22 10:32:15 AM |
| #3 Symantec says Slammer, or the Microsoft SQL Server Resolution Service Stack Overflow Attack, was still the most common kind of security attack seen. SQL Server: Just Say "HELL NO!" |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-03-22 10:14:12 AM |
| #2 I've noticed in the last couple months I've been getting more and more phishing emails. Normally I'd forward them with full headers to the banks or institutions they claim to represent hoping they could glean something to nail the a--h---s, but it's getting to be a pain with so many coming in. |
| Posted by: Dar 2005-03-22 9:06:13 AM |
| #1 Phishing, the report says, continues to be a major problem, and the threat is growing. Anyone that would fall for a phishing expedition is deserving of an underwear-staining wedgie. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-22 12:31:01 AM |