Anti malware company Symantec released its threat report for 2011 on Monday. The statistics are as follows:-
A.
Religious and ideological sites have triple the
average number of threats per infected sites that pornographic Web sites contain.
B.
Top 10 categories of most infected Web sites:
1.
Blogs
2.
Web communications
3.
Religious websites
4.
Personally hosted sites
5.
Business sites
6.
Shopping education
7.
Automative themed sites
8.
Health and medicine sites
9.
Porn sites
C. 3/4 spam messages were pharma themed. ¼ spam
messages were Sex and dating-themed.
D.
Spam volumes dropped by around 20 billion
messages year over year, to an average of 75% of all e-mail last year, compared
with 88.5% in 2010.
E.
U.S. was the top source of every category of
malicious activity.
F.
India leads in creation of malware and the use
of spam zombies. (I am proud of it.) ;-)
G.
Around 13% of bot activity originated in the
U.S. and around 34% of Web based attacks. Close to half of all phishing Web
sites were based in the U.S.
H.
China saw a steep drop in malicious activity by
about 10%.
I.
Reports of vulnerabilities in industrial control
and SCADA systems rose from 15 in 2010 to 129 in 2011.
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