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Mobile is biggest security threat
Tuesday 8th November 2011
Courtesy: http://www.firebrandtraining.co.uk/10th-birthday
Hundreds of world’s hackers descended on Miami for Hacker Halted 2011 to learn about the latest hacks that will hit your IT systems in the coming months. Among them was UK's Firebrand Training on a fact-finding mission, and to add the latest techniques to its Ethical Hacking course.
Robert Chapman, CEO of Firebrand Training says: “Statistics from Hacker Halted are a reminder thatwe’re all more vulnerable than ever. There are thousands of new threats every day, and currently aren’t enough ‘cyber defenders’ to deal with them.”
“The scary thing is that it’s not always about money. One hacker demonstrated how a wireless insulin pump could effectively be used to deliver fatal injections. It sounds like something from a sci-fi movie. But it’s here now, and it’s very real.”
The numbers
- New malicious websites detected every month 2,000,000
- New malware screened every day 100,000
- Rise in Android mobile malware compared to 2010 - 400%
- Estimated global cost of the Zeus trojan virus - £50m
- Average days to fix a security vulnerability on a website - 110
- World websites with a serious security exposure every day of the year 44%
- IT professionals & CEOs saying mobile computing now IT's biggest security threat 70%
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