Greatest Cyberthreats? Botnets & Inneffective Law Enforcement
If you like to worry about cybercrime statics you’ll love Symantec’s new Global Internet Security Threat Report for 2009. Almost 100 pages full of interesting facts like “Symantec observed 6,798,338 distinct bot-infected computers in 2009,” the operative word being “observed.” In other words the actual number of bot infected computers is probably much greater and difficult to really know. I’ve read estimates ranging from 5% to 25% of all PCs worldwide are infected. The botnet population is a moving and morphing target, all you really have to know is that there are a lot of them thanks to evolving technology and clever deceptions aimed at the entire population of computer users.
Botnets are just one of the cybersecurity topics that ThreatMetrix CTO discussed with Infosec Island’s Anthony Freed in this just-published interview. Check it out here:
https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/3717-An-Interview-with-David-Jones-CTO-at-ThreatMetrix.html
- Tom
