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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Shocking Spyware Statistics

Two sets of spyware survey results passed across my radar today, and both make for the by now usual shocking reading.

The first came by way of Webroot Software, Internet security developer of anti-spyware kit for consumer, enterprise and SME markets. This particular poll surveyed some 3000 consumers with regard to their understanding of external Internet threats to their PCs, something that should be of interest to all IT admins considering that it is just these kind of consumers whose resources are zombified and become part of the botnets that can cause such havoc to the enterprise by way of DDoS attack.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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